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Google’s Nest Acquisition: How Will Your Privacy Be Affected by the Internet of Things?

March 24, 2014 by David Glenn

In the era of tech giants, privacy has almost become a luxury. This is because people are virtually connected to their computers or the Internet at all times. This has made social theorists quite concerned about the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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IoT Defined

The Internet of Things is a term coined by Kevin Ashton during a 1999 supply-chain management presentation at Proctor & Gamble. For Ashton, IoT meant that the benefit of computers and the Internet can only come from the documentation of actions. Everything a person writes, clicks, downloads, consumes, uses, searches, and views on the Internet becomes not only a data profile on that person’s behavior, but data that constitutes the space of the Internet. The goal then is to document this data more and more fully, in the hope to be able to obtain a complete picture and scope for businesses to increase their efficiency and effectiveness toward consumers. [Read more…] about Google’s Nest Acquisition: How Will Your Privacy Be Affected by the Internet of Things?

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: home automation, Internet of things, Nest, Privacy, Security

NSA diverted computers and laptops from shipping facilities to install spyware

December 30, 2013 by DailyBits

NSA diverted computers and laptops from shipping facilities to install spyware (via Raw Story )

Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that the NSA’s “Tailored Access Operations” (TAO) has been diverting desktops and laptops shipped to U.S. consumers and installing spyware on them. According to the report, the process, which TAO calls “interdiction…


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Filed Under: Security Tagged With: NSA, Privacy

UN passes anti-spying resolution

November 27, 2013 by DailyBits

UN passes anti-spying resolution (via AFP)

A UN rights committee on Tuesday passed a “right to privacy” resolution pressed by Germany and Brazil, which have led international outrage over reports of US spying on their leaders. The resolution says that surveillance and data interception by governments…


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Filed Under: Security Tagged With: online security, Privacy, United Nations

Erased, Discarded Mobile Phones Still Pose Security Risk

October 30, 2013 by DailyBits

Erased, Discarded Mobile Phones Still Pose Security Risk (via slashdot)

Smartphones and other mobile devices used in the workplace can pose a security threat that remains even when the device itself is no longer in use. Forensic examination of 32 mobile phones issued to employees by a Fortune 500 company (and eventually…


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Filed Under: Mobile, Security Tagged With: mobile phones, Privacy, Security

NSA harvests email contacts

October 15, 2013 by DailyBits

NSA harvests email contacts (via Pando Daily)

On October 14, 2013WaPo, with another Snowden facilitated leak, reports that the NSA is gathering hundreds of millions of emails through people’s contact lists and instant messaging accounts. It’s using the emails to analyze foreign intelligence…


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Filed Under: Security Tagged With: Internet security, NSA, Privacy

The NSA and Your Mobile Phone

September 10, 2013 by noemi

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It’s the era of spying, monitoring, and of course, whistleblowers. We’ve had so many news items on governments making sure that they know what’s going on – hence the monitoring of practically all kinds of communication. We’ve also had quite a few high profile cases wherein people in the know have come public.

What’s the truth?

Remember, there are always at least two sides to a story, and the average person will probably never get to know the whole picture, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that the government is keeping tabs on what’s floating in the airwaves – or cables, for that matter. Whether you send an email or a text message or make a phone call, the chances are that there might be someone else listening in. [Read more…] about The NSA and Your Mobile Phone

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: NSA, Privacy, Security

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