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You can never be sure who may be watching you and trying to get your private information. There are things you can do to prevent digital eavesdroppers. Read this great article on The Star-Tech Central that has great tips and reviews of software you can use.
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If you’re like me you respond with a resounding “No Way!”. Apparently some federally funded researchers want to shut it down and start over. Their reasons are even more disturbing, “at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be tracked and traced all the time.”
Now the internet may be many things and there may be many things wrong with it but it is very important to free speech and education. The fact that they want to shut down the internet because privacy and anonymity is protected in some way is ridiculous. This research is all in preperation of “Internet 2″ which will be highly regulated by the FCC and of course big businesses. The governement and big businesses would like to be able to track your personal information and “Internet 2″ is being planed with that in mind.
Check out the full article on MediaChannel.org.
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These new rules protect the personal telephone records of consumers from unauthorized disclosure. This directly applies to consumers using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) sercives. Read more about this on Access Control & Security Systems.
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Microsoft say that it is. Read the article here. Seems to me that its more about money then privacy. However they do make a good point about the amount of private information Google will have their hands on. Analysts have been saying: “Google keeps data and logs of searches conducted on the web service — DoubleClick currently uses a technology that is able to remember which sites a user uses to help deliver relevant ads.”
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