One month until they regulate the Internet

The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death.  The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that you do on the Internet.  One thing that you can count on is that nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again.  In fact, if you are obsessed with privacy then the last place you want…

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If you haven't been timelined yet, you eventually will be! Why can't Facebook let its users choose their page layout? Why is Timeline enforced on hundreds of millions of users? What is Timeline -- a perfect way to present one's biography or a way to get to know the dirty laundry of someone who hasn't cleaned his/her page yet? Does…

Secret Plan Underway To Revive Internet Censorship Bill SOPA

Falkvinge.net The doctrine for authorities collecting sensitive, private data on citizens right now appears to be “your private data may be useful to us, and therefore, we shall take it by force”. From general wiretapping to data…

This is very interesting.

http://rt.com/news/firefox-addon-tracking-privacy-759/

Declan McCullagh

CNet

January 13, 2012

Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their…

You might as well start by looking in the data of your machine. Did you fill in your real name and address anywhere? Remove it. And don’t keep any of your passwords on your machine. A piece of paper will do.

KeePassX is very useful if you make more identities, keeping the database on a USB stick that you take out of your machine when you walk away from it, and keep that stick in a location only known to you.

 

Anonymous – the uber-secret…

From http://owni.eu/2011/11/22/us-ruling-sets-troubling-precedent-for-social-media-privacy/

On November 10 a US district court judge upheld a ruling that cleared the way for the US government to compel Twitter to release “private” information related to three of its users. The ruling, which brings an end to a protracted year-long series of appeals, may have set a disturbing…

I've just returned to the UK after a 2 week visit to Ireland. While I was there I bought an item of clothing from a well known retailer. Now, its worth remembering that this particular retailer has never ever sent me email, spam or otherwise. In fact, they don't even advertise much on the internet. Yet, two days after my purchase and return to the UK, I get a promo email from them? I didn't sign anything, but paid by card.

If we do NOT want to be complicit in our own…

It wasn't good enough for Walmart to snoop around with the use of RFID tags, now they've upped their anty by rolling out next month their electronic ID tags in all jeans and underwear. They're calling them 'Smart Tags' that will be placed in every individual pair of jeans and underwear.

Is it just me or is this just creepy and frightening as hell. Radio-frequency ID tags this close to the croth area can not be a good thing but moreover, the…

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html

How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to…