Tag: Privacy Bits

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PRIVACY BITS: Wireless carrier isn’t only cheating their end customers but are also over charging the government to spy on you!

Cricket Communications, a low-cost brand of AT&T as of March 2014, has agreed to pay over $2.1 million to settle allegations that the company “overcharged federal law enforcement agencies for the costs of carrying out court-ordered wiretaps and pen registers,” federal authorities announced on Monday.

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cricket-to-pay-feds-2-1m-after-allegations-it-charged-too-much-for-wiretaps/#p3

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PRIVACY BITS: Is Apple Pay secure?

 

Apple has launched their PayPal/Google Wallet killer Apple Pay. Or so they like to believe. Should the Google and PayPal worry? I think they should since Apple Pay has taken the whole concept of online payments a step further. But is this a step forward? Yes, I think it may be. In this piece it’s being explained why Apple Pay is more secure than other methods of payments but not the final totally secure solution:

 

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/10/21/is-apple-pay-safe-and-secure/

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PRIVACY BITS: The EU says you have the right to be forgotten. The BBC says “no, not really”.

The BBC said today that it will soon begin publishing a public log of articles whose links have been removed from Google and other search engine results under the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. So now they will start publishing a list of forgotten articles. 

Each time Google removes a link, it notifies the publisher that it has been removed. It’s this list of notifications that the BBC will use to build a list of removed search URLs. 46 BBC articles had already been removed from search results under the highly controversial rule.

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BBC to publish ‘right to be forgotten’ removals list.