Apple Isn’t Responsible for Your Nude Selfies
Owners of cloud services specifically refuse to take responsibility for data theft. So if you’re a celebrity whose nude pictures are splashed all over by hackers, all you can do is smile and wave.
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FBI probes ‘Cloud’ celebrity leaks
“Although many cloud providers may encrypt the data communications between the device and the cloud, it does not mean that the image and data is encrypted when the data is at rest.
“If you can view the image in the cloud service, so can a hacker.”
The Jennifer Lawrence Leak: Who Is at Risk Now?
What differentiates this celebrity phone hack from others is the sheer number of images that were released.
« Retargeting » : quand les sites de e-commerce essaient de vous rattraper par la manche
Imaginez que vous sortez d’une boutique. Quelques minutes après, le vendeur vous court après, vous rattrape et vous demande si vous n’aimeriez pas revenir voir le produit. L’impression serait désagréable. En ligne, elle existe et s’appelle le retargeting. Elle consiste, quelques minutes après une visite sur un site marchand, à envoyer un mail de relance personnalisé.
This Man Has Nothing to Hide—Not Even His Email Password
When someone debating privacy says, “but I don’t have anything to hide,” I am immediately suspicious. “Would you prove it by giving me access to your email accounts,” I’ve taken to replying, “along with your credit card statements and bank records?” Not a single person has ever taken me up on that challenge–until now.
Visualizing Lightbeam
Emily Carr University of Art + Design teamed up with the Mozilla Foundation to improve the visualization design of Lightbeam, an experimental add – on for Firefox that allows you to see the third parties that have connected themselves to your online activity. Goals for the project included making it easy for people to make sense of their own browsing data, to expose relationships between websites and third parties – which normally remain hidden – and ultimately to give people the tools to make their own decisions about their online privacy.
Track The Trackers
Track the Trackers is a capstone project created by three Winona State University Mass Communication students. The purpose of this project is to bring into focus the nearly invisible world of third-party tracking. Our goal is to educate consumers on the potential dangers in letting this data be collected, and to share information, techniques, and software to help consumers protect themselves online.
Protect your privacy with DoNotTrackMe
Abine, the online privacy company, makes DoNotTrackMe to block online tracking companies and protect your personal information.
The New Editors of the Internet
In a small number of Silicon Valley conference rooms, decisions are being made about what people should and shouldn’t see online—without the accountability or culture that has long accompanied that responsibility.
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
There have been increasingly vocal calls for Twitter, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporations to more aggressively police what their users are permitted to see and read. Last month in The Washington Post, for instance, MSNBC host Ronan Farrow demanded that social media companies ban the accounts of “terrorists” who issue “direct calls” for violence.
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