Privacy

Google warns you that importing your contacts into Facebook is a trap :D

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Hold on a second. Are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that won’t let you get it out?

That’s how Google starts its warning message to users that are stupid enough to import their Gmail contacts into Facebook.

It’s been war between Google and Facebook these past couple of days and it’s interesting to see Google taking a playful approach to the problem.

Read the whole message on Gmail.

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The end of online privacy in the UK. ISPs will be forced to record everything

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From The Register:

The coalition government has approved a multibillion-pound plan by the intelligence agencies to store details of every online conversation.

The reemerging Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) means internet providers will be forced to install interception equipment in their networks to capture details of who contacts whom, when, where and how via services such as Facebook, Skype, webmail, and online games.

Read more about it here.

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Yet another story about Facebook violating your rights

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A lawsuit has been filed in the US against Facebook, because the social network leaked personally identifiable information to advertisers.

In the information sent to advertisers when you click on an ad, there are things like your username and your real name…

Read the complaint HERE.

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Les campagnes d’extorsion de Logistep AG vont enfin prendre fin :)

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Logistep AG, une société suisse vendant ses services à des lobbys dangereux (MPAA, RIAA), s’amusait à espionner les utilisateurs de réseau P2P et collectionnait les adresses IP des personnes qui téléchargeaient des fichiers protégés par les lois sur la propriété intellectuelle.

Une fois qu’ils avaient réussi à identifier à qui appartenaient les adresses IP, ils envoyaient des demandes de rançon aux résidents suisses. La plupart des gens recevant ces lettres paniquaient et payaient, mais tout ce cinéma va prendre fin.

Le tribunal fédéral a délibéré le 8 Septembre 2010 et les juges ont décidé de dénoncer et de poursuivre pénalement Logistep AG et de demander l’arrestation de son directeur dans les plus brefs délais.

Cela ne rend pas le téléchargement légal et d’autres moyens peuvent être mis en oeuvre pour arrêter les personnes qui violent les droits d’auteur, mais cela évitent les abus de sociétés de cowboys…

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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been given the boot by the European Parliament

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It’s great news for privacy advocates and European citizens. Some private organisations were trying to pass laws that would monitor citizens’ use of the Internet and the process has been deemed un-democratic and its content harmful to fundamental freedoms and the Internet ecosystem.

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