/https://www.militaryonesource.mil/financial-legal/legal/service-member-privacy-versus-public-access-to-information/ The struggle between the public's right to know facts about service members and our right to keep our personal information private never seems to favor the individual.
Security Overview
Consumer Reports has a new security tool available online for free. Their information is tailored to our individual online uses and behavior. Simply click on the devices and methods you use and the site provides helpful links for improving your safety and online security. To evaluate the site, I clicked on each option available for... Continue Reading →
Zombie Data
The phrase for old data hanging around on servers for decades can have more harmful implications to our privacy. When data brokers scrape public information websites and publish that information, many don't ever go back and clean up the content on their websites. Often that incorrect or harmful information is purchased or scraped and shared... Continue Reading →
Does Privacy Matter During A Pandemic?
It's rare today to find an article that includes several view points, so that's why I'm sharing this one from The Atlantic. Whenever I read TA, I'm looking for something with a left slant, for sure, but I was pleasantly surprised that they at least mentioned Cindy Cohn at EFF and the reports that data... Continue Reading →
Virtual Kidnapping Enabled By Data Brokers
Terrifying. As I read this article, I imagined my grandparents in that situation. That this is happening at all is reason enough to shut down data broker sites that include lists of relatives. We worked very hard to keep our names from being connected to our families, but it happened due to public information being... Continue Reading →
Maybe it’s time
This article describes another data exposure for Facebook users this week. I'm not usually in favor of government intervention in corporate policies, but this case may call for it. If Facebook requires people to use their real names and suspends accounts that violate their identity policy, then they should be required to protect the data... Continue Reading →
Make Some INTERNET NOISE!
In response to new (anti) privacy laws in the US that allow your ISP to collect & sell your browsing data, you can obscure the information your internet service provider can see about you. Internet Noise story in WIRED When your providers want information, give them false results! IAPP description INTERNET NOISE link © 2019... Continue Reading →
Who is whois.com?
Internet websites and their domain names are governed by the ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. A website's domain must be unique (such as ourprivacymatters.org) in order for an internet browser to point to it correctly. When a person or business registers a domain, their information becomes public information. All of the... Continue Reading →
Now Hide Me 