“GDPR” stands for General Data Protection Regulation, a new legislation approved by EU Parliament, which goes into effect in May 2018. According to CIO, the main goal of the new legislation is the protection of freedoms and rights of all individuals located in the territory of European Union regardless of their citizenship. [Read more…] about General Data Protection Regulation aims to protect rights of data subjects #GDPR
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Accessing Your Facebook Data – Here’s How to get it
With the latest privacy or information breach from Facebook, like many, you may be thinking about can cancelling your account or perhaps locking things down a bit more. Did you know though that you can request a download of all of your personal information – these are the data that others have apparently managed to access. [Read more…] about Accessing Your Facebook Data – Here’s How to get it
5 Point Facebook Security Checkup – How much personal information are you sharing?
Sharing information is fast and simple (perhaps too easy) and for many, it really is quite tempting to over-share, however, while doing so you may also be giving up loads of personal information without even realizing it. Case in point, Facebook. Facebook is by far, the most popular social network out there where people are giving up their personal information or their friends are giving it up. There’s a number of things that could be happening with your posts or posts about you on Facebook that may be giving up more information than you really are comfortable with.
Introduction to Windows 10 Security
“Introduction to Windows 10 Security (a $24.95 value) FREE for a limited time” An 87 page, fully updated guide to understanding security in Windows 10.
Tips on Accessing Your Google Location history
If you use google services then you likely have a location history stored by Google – don’t worry though, only you can see it! By accessing your history you can view all the places you’ve been (while location sharing was enabled on your device).
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Keep the UAV Devices Away – Create and Register Your Own No Fly Zone
Create a no fly zone around your property? Yep, that’s pretty much what a non-profit is enabling people to do, however, it has yet to be determined how much weight this “no fly zone” would have or if it could be enforced as a private area.
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Social Media Guide For Parents (2014 Edition)
A valuable resource for parents was released today and it’s pretty darned nice – and useful! The social media guide for parents has been developed by the Liahona Academy (be sure to check out their website and the other valuable resources they provide) and is delivered as a free web-based resource and a comprehensive infographic – jam-packed with useful tips!
social media guide for parents
Some useful things pointed out in the guide include details of facebook’s new policy that enables kids to post publicly, and other tips and tricks regarding ways to safeguard user privacy.The guide also describes all the public social sites that are popular with teens and explains what they are and how they are used and they also suggest several social media monitoring tools.
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Obama’s Plans for changing U.S. NSA intelligence practices in One Graphic
Loads of buzz today in the news and on social media as a result of the Commander in Chief addressing the nation on the topic of security and privacy. The speech was delivered against a background set by numerous proposals, including various bills in Congress and the recommendations of the president’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, on which I served (and most of whose recommendations were endorsed in today’s speech).
Highlights of the speech can be identified in the following Wordle, and according to Bloomberg, there were 7 main topics of interest touched on that deserve special attention.
More On NSA tracking US cellphone records and Foreign Visitors
Yep, this topic simply won’t go away…The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with US intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.
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Mapping gunshots Around Washington D.C
An interesting service known as shotspotter can not only differentiate between gunshots and pyrotechnics, the service has also managed to map out the location of all (most) gunshots in the D.C area since 2009, painting an interesting picture that easily identifies areas of the city where you might want to be careful, particularly if you aren’t packing in order to protect yourself!