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How Did Private Companies Become The Guardians Of Our Online Privacy?

Easy question: look no further than the traditional US-american distrust for everything their governement/public bodies do and the inextinguishable confidence in private sector initiative to address all general public needs and all sorts of social issues.

Of course, blame it again on this clique of millionnaire white men sold to corporations, the thing they call congress:

While U.S. government’s thirst for online information about its citizens is increasing, privacy protections are weakening as a result of Congress’ failure to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), created more than 25 years ago to set standards for law enforcement access to electronic communications and associated data.

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November 20, 2012
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The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you’ve seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google’s new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands.

Our story on nuking your history was read nearly 200,000 times on this site alone—and it was a reprint of a piece originally put out by the EFF. Many other outlets republished the same piece.The Reddit page linking to the original had more than 1,000 comments. And the topic itself was debated on decidedly non-techie forums like NPR.

It’s not surprising that the tracking debate had people up in arms. A Pew Internet study, conducted just before Google combined its privacy policies (and after it rolled out personalized search results in Search Plus Your World) found that three quarters of people don’t want their search results tracked, and two thirds don’t even want them personalized based on prior history.

The bottom line: People don’t trust Google with their data. And that’s new.

Article on Gizmodo

(Source: whateugenesreading)

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April 13, 2012
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Nous faudra-t-il payer pour préserver notre vie privée ?

Rejoint complètement ce que j’ai déjà écrit.

“Ils créent des sociétés qui ont besoin de nos données personnelles pour réussir, tout comme les banquiers ont besoins de prêts hypothécaires indésirables pour créer des notations AAA fictives. Un jour, quand la réalité va revenir à ses fondamentaux, la bulle explosera. Beaucoup d’argent sera perdu. Beaucoup de personnes seront blessées.”

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Et Toby Stevens d’expliquer qu’il serait prêt à payer une redevance mensuelle pour garantir que son téléphone ne partage pas ses données et protège sa vie privée

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[..] en fait, pour l’instant, personne ne peut vraiment fixer un prix, au risque de souligner combien les capitalisations boursières ou les investissements sans fin sont en fait exagérément gonflés.

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March 24, 2012
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Protect your privacy with Firefox

To bounce on the release of Collusion, the Firefox extension that visually shows which websites track you, it’s not a bad idea to re-list the must-have extension for whoever cares about privacy.

- Ghostery: blocks advertisers tracking cookies (not only, also facebook

- Redirect cleaner: some sites hide links behind a redirector so that they can know which external link you clicked, this is most particularly valid on search engines.

- Refcontrol: forges the Referer field of the HTTP request. Websites you visit don’t need to know what you were reading before landing on their pages.

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March 23, 2012
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Giving a try to DuckDuckGo as default search engine.

Hope they can find a sustainable business model.

One step away from Google.

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February 20, 2012
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Love that

So what’s next for Tumblr? […] The company will also use the months and years ahead to pursue “novel approaches to revenue,” as opposed to tacking on ads, that will fit the Tumblr community, Karp explained.

Enough with “free” services that are built on reselling our privacy. We have to pay for what we use and get the right to privacy we deserve. Make it happen.

(Source: venturebeat.com)

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January 26, 2012
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