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• Hardening for privacy

  Posted on November 27, 2023 at 02:41 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PRIVACY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Privacy means different things to different people.

  At the office, we want to keep our information private from certain individuals and certain departments, but not from ultimate business needs.

  In fact, we will often “spy” on our own employees. Want to know exactly what your users in the office do? Consider an analytics app such as ActivTrak to monitor the productivity of employees.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.48.0, 2023-11-27).

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• Congress just gave your web browsing history away to the ISPs

  Posted on March 28, 2017 at 17:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I guess enough of you didn’t complain – or your Congresscritters didn’t listen.

  Breaking news on The Verge.

  It’s hard to see this as anything but a major loss for consumers.

   

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• Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy

  Posted on March 24, 2017 at 07:33 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Good synopsis from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

  The [U.S.] Senate just voted to roll back your online privacy protections. Speak up now to keep the House from doing the same thing.

  ISPs have been lobbying for weeks to get lawmakers to repeal the FCC’s rules that stand between them and using even creepier ways to track and profit off of your every move online. Republicans in the Senate just voted 50-48 (with two absent votes) to approve a Congressional Review Action resolution from Sen. Jeff Flake which—if it makes it through the House—would not only roll back the FCC’s rules but also prevent the FCC from writing similar rules in the future.

  That would be a crushing loss for online privacy. ISPs act as gatekeepers to the Internet, giving them incredible access to records of what you do online. They shouldn’t be able to profit off of the information about what you search for, read about, purchase, and more without your consent.

  We can still kill this in the House: call your lawmakers today and tell them to protect your privacy from your ISP.

  This isn’t a political post. It’s just common sense.

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