Privacy Under Serious Threat
How much do they know about you? Have you ever figured out all the personal information you already shared around? Not only information collected online as everything you unfolded about your life to banks, stores, universities, clubs, etc. The recent scandal of unauthorized data mining, eavesdropping and real espionage the NSA (National Security Agency) led all over the US shows off the massive misuse of state power as well as how our privacies are at risk.
In fact, recently, Americans have watched with growing alarm a series of big mistakes that have resulted in the personal information of millions falling into the wrong hands. The extent of fraud that will result from these privacy breaches can probably never be quantified. What is
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It´s important to define "wrong hands", because we can divide at least in two groups as follow:
Wrong and BAD hands: People who buy or steal data to use against those people, for example, using credit card information, try to intimidate people, or even use data to have any advantage for smthg.
Wrong, but WARM hands: People who use this privacy data to increase his contact net, try to sell smthg, or even to prepair some jokes.
If you're a victim of the second group, welcome board, because nowadays it's very usual this kind of stuffs happen, we have our profile in lots of websites, orkut, webmails, etc..
But buddy... if you're a victim of the first group.. call 911! hehehe
Cheers guys!
Que tal ser monitorado através de dispositivos implantados nas roupas que você comprou?
O "Consumidor RS" publicou essa semana:
A tecnologia de etiquetas com microtransmissores de rádio (RFIDs), que já tem uma década de desenvolvimento, promete ser uma das maiores revoluções para o setor de varejo e para a cadeia de suprimentos, em escala mundial. Mas o grande senão é o crescente temor por parte dos consumidores de que os transmissores quase invisíveis permaneçam ativos após a compra, enviando sinais para bancos de dados remotos. É claro que muitas dessas preocupações não têm base técnica: há muita desinformação a respeito da tecnologia, mas é justamente esse grau de desinformação que representa o maior risco para a adoção global dos RFIDs.
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