Web Privacy

The Dangers of ACTA

If you thought that we were free from SOPA and PIPA being taken out of Congress, think again! A new treaty has come across the desks and was already signed! The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) includes a ban on counterfeit goods. Seems harmless right? However, they have snuck in the treaty “online piracy” by servers and websites to monitor. If deemed, then they would be prosecuted as...

How To Protect Your Privacy Online

When you think of technolgy you automatically think of danger right? That is what most of the world thinks. In part, it is true if you have no protection. With the thousands of cases a year of Identity Theft, how do you know that you are not a victim? If you are not, how do you protect your privacy online so that you don’t become a victim of this crime? It is simple if you have the right idea as...

A Year of Privacy Attacks? It Could Happen!

This is what one expert, Graham Jones says that is. With the increase of social media and everything relating to the internet, it is not impossible to think that we could have a bunch of privacy attacks coming our way in this new year. With the rise of the internet, you have to be on your toes if things are not going to be faster in the world. It is rather interesting to what they are doing in order...

Kal-Fi Website Hacked! User Profiles Under Attack!

Online web privacy has always been an issue, but it hasn’t really been a big threat until recently. When the hacking of the Kal-Fi website went global on the holiday weekend, everyone realized that it wasn’t what they thought before. You may or may not remember that Kalkaska’s wireless internet service “Kal Fi” was hacked by the hacking group “Anonymous”. They were reported to have stolen...

Web Privacy Predictions for the 2012 Year: Are You Safe?

It seems to many people with all of the SOPA debate that has been going on and other things related to web privacy and whether or not you are safe, that it is going to be harder and harder to protect yourself. Without the right software, server, or proxy of some sort, you are a sitting duck waiting for the inevitable. However there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, right? There is if you...

SOPA Vote Cancelled!

This is until 2012. The House Judiciary Committee decided to pack it in for the year as a majority of the members added more then 50 different amendments that were meant to delay the legislation further. The entire purpose of the SOPA vote was to give the government the control over search engines and other Web companies to delete links that point to foreign sites that are dedicated to copyright infringement....