Aside from the very real need to worry about outright identity theft, there is a growing need to be concerned about privacy and reputation protection.
If you think all the concern about privacy threats on the internet is just a bunch of hype, you should seriously do some homework. The threats to privacy are more pervasive [...]
What is a “domain name” and why is it an identity issue or a reputation protection concern?
A domain name is what most people call a “web address.” It is the name-dot-extension such as securesurfing.net that not only serves as web page addresses but also forms the root of e-mail addresses, ftp services and so on.
It [...]Others in this Group Why are domain names reputation issues? (This post) – July 18, 2009Registration Privacy for Domain Names – August 1, 2009
Dear Glenn:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a single spam email, the [...]
A great article (linked at end) on CNET by Ari Juels walks through how easy it has become to personally identify you with what merchants and marketers call “non-personally identifying information.”
If you have read the famous “The Contract” published in the Internet Parent Guide, you will have a sense of how children can be tricked [...]
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Secure Surfing users should realize that there is a big difference between rating a privacy policy and recommending the use of the site or services to which the policy relates.
For example, Alexa.com’s Privacy Policy gives high disclosure, providing direct and unambiguous information about what it collects from users. [...]
We have been enthusiastically testing two new services launched to provide privacy and identity protection. DMNRA6T4TQ2Z
The Secure Surfing Organization is a long-time advocate of the Anonymizer Anonymous Browsing and Total Net Shield services.
Having used the services for years with great success, we were a little gun-shy about the transition to a completely different anonymizing [...]
We like to keep users updated on service experiences with various secure surfing vendors when they present themselves, particularly those recommended by the Secure Surfing Organization.
We have used the Total Netshield Service of Anonymizer for years and have been very pleased with its identity and privacy protection power.
We were using the 2-year term as it [...]
The Secure Surfing Organization supports Open Source (OSS) and free software. In our Introduction to the License Library, we explain the difference between “free” software and OSS, noting that our strongest recommendation is software licensed under GPL, the GNU Public License. GPL is not only open in the sense that anyone can obtain and examine [...]
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We’ll be able to see the actual worth of the TRUSTe program in how it handles a relatively straightforward privacy complaint.
It is a fundamental principle of privacy practice that personal information collected should be destroyed once the purpose of the collection is no long valid. This matter figured [...]Others in this GroupComplaint filed with TRUSTe (This post) – August 19, 2009Microsoft TRUSTe Complaint Closed – September 30, 2009Microsoft lies to TRUSTe? – September 29, 2009TRUSTe not to be trusted – October 16, 2009TRUSTe starts complaints process against Microsoft – August 20, 2009
Some people thought we were exaggerating when we wrote Your TV will be spying on you next.
Well, it is happening much faster than even we anticipated. Today, May 07, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order in favour of the corporate movie industry lobby, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The order grants [...]
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