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- I want privacy because I break the law http://zachaysan.tumblr.com/post/364510410/i-want-privacy-because-i-break-the-law 117 comments
- Americans Want Facebook and TikTok Banned Over Privacy Concerns https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/357111 36 comments privacy
- Your customers don’t want absolute privacy https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/11/01/your-customers-dont-want-absolute-privacy-just-fair-compensation-for-their-data/ 9 comments privacy
- Facebook Wants to Be Better About Privacy, Just Not With These 1.5 Billion Users https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/19/facebook-wants-be-better-about-privacy-just-not-these-15-billion-users 5 comments politics
- ACLU: If Americans Want Privacy & Net Neutrality, They Should Build Their Own Broadband Networks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180403/08042539549/aclu-if-americans-want-privacy-net-neutrality-they-should-build-their-own-broadband-networks.shtml 35 comments technology
- Encryption Pioneer Phil Zimmermann: 'People Want Their Privacy for Free' http://motherboard.vice.com/read/encryption-pioneer-phil-zimmerman-people-want-their-privacy-for-free 14 comments privacy
- Sanders wants privacy panel in defense bill http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/244169-sanders-wants-privacy-panel-in-defense-bill 6 comments politics
- 79% people are worried about their online privacy and want more control over their personal data http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/79-people-worried-online-privacy-5434659 28 comments privacy
- AT&T wants $139 a month, or your privacy, for superfast Internet http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/at-t-wants-139-a-month-or-your-privacy-for-6168986.php 5 comments technology
- Americans Say They Want Privacy, but Act as if They Don’t http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/upshot/americans-say-they-want-privacy-but-act-as-if-they-dont.html?smid=re-share 45 comments privacy
- Biden and the IRS want to monitor your bank account Will Privacy Coins see a rise in Popularity? https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/guest-view-biden-tax-crusade-puts-privacy-risk-2021-09-29/ 23 comments cryptocurrency
- So I want to count number of unique visits to my website. Do I now need to become a data privacy expert? https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/gcobad/so_i_want_to_count_number_of_unique_visits_to_my/ 76 comments web_design
- Facebook wants to put alexa style cameras in your home, months after enormous privacy concerns. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-45744732 5 comments technology
- AT&T Claims It Wants Meaningful Privacy Rules...After Just Lobbying To Kill Meaningful Privacy Rules https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181003/07113840765/att-claims-it-wants-meaningful-privacy-rulesafter-just-lobbying-to-kill-meaningful-privacy-rules.shtml 45 comments technology
- Verizon wants you to give up Web privacy—in exchange for movie tickets https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/want-verizon-rewards-just-let-vendors-and-partners-see-your-browsing-history/ 3 comments technology
- Internet providers want to know more about you than Google does, privacy groups say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/20/your-internet-provider-is-turning-into-a-data-hungry-tech-company-consumer-groups-warn/ 4 comments privacy
- Sanders wants panel to study privacy in digital age http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250259-sanders-wants-privacy-panel-in-cyber-bill 52 comments technology
- Privacy groups: WhatsApp users don't want Facebook deal | TheHill http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/201355-privacy-groups-whatsapp-users-dont-want-facebook-deal#ixzz2wc2efpy7 3 comments technology
- What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy: "What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary, precious? Is it just some prissy relic of the pretechnological past?" http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887323639704579015101857760922.html?mod=wsj_hpp_sections_opinion 3 comments politics
- FaceApp: Netherlands police backtrack over calls to delete it - “We want to warn you about this, at first glance, innocent app,” the police wrote. “The FaceApp is a product of a Russian company. European privacy legislation is therefore not applicable here." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/faceapp-netherlands-police-backtrack-delete 3 comments worldnews
- Ad Industry Wants New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules Gutted Because, Uh, Free Speech! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170104/10021436408/ad-industry-wants-new-fcc-broadband-privacy-rules-gutted-because-uh-free-speech.shtml 15 comments technology
- The FBI is on the cusp of obtaining three extremely dangerous new powers. 1) exempt its biometrics database from the Privacy Act. 2) wants access to your internet records without a warrant. 3) wants to be able to hack, remotely monitor, install malware on computers https://privacysos.org/blog/fbi-wants-lot-power-spy-us-trust/ 20 comments politics
- ACLU lawyer: GOP wants companies to decide privacy rights | The Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/02/aclu-lawyer-gop-wants-companies-to-decide-privacy-rights/ 3 comments politics
- Google Buzz 'breaks privacy laws' says UK watchdog group. The ability to opt into the program instead of opting out is what the group wants http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8519314.stm 3 comments technology
- "The right to privacy should not be a right to hypocrisy and people who want to demonize other people shouldn't then be able to go home and close the door and do it themselves." - Barney Frank, 10 months ago on Senator Larry Craig http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/10/bill-maher-asks-barney-frank-if-larry.html 4 comments reddit.com
- "The police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a Lord of the Rings marathon in the privacy of your own home, if you want to." - Seattle Police Department http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9728034/washington-state-lights-up-as-smoking-marijuana-becomes-legal.html 860 comments politics
- No More Privacy Paranoia - Want Web companies to stop using our personal data? Be ready to suffer the consequences. http://www.slate.com/id/2290719/ 7 comments technology
- Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy - The company wants to shut down an academic study of political ad targeting, just as it prepares to reinstate targeted political ads https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-is-going-after-its-critics-in-the-name-of-privacy/ 14 comments politics
- ACLU - Want to Read My Email? Not Without a Warrant: 'The current law even allows the government to read virtually all of our emails without a warrant. This extraordinary power is an egregious violation of the privacy Americans rightly expect.' http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-read-my-email-not-without-warrant 70 comments politics
- CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants | Lawmakers want HHS to revise health privacy law to require warrants. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/cvs-rite-aid-walgreens-hand-out-medical-records-to-cops-without-warrants/ 86 comments technews
- Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android, While the iPhone Experience Maximizes 'Security and Privacy' https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/09/tim-cook-users-sideloading-use-an-android/?fbclid=IwAR33sJMlrSuvAgJlwl0_Ksh-7Q2KL330GE7InC1RDl-I3YEPE5LDYHr8NHM 2267 comments apple
- Telco-Backed Politician Wants to Restore Privacy Rules She Helped Kill https://www.wired.com/2017/05/telco-backed-politician-wants-restore-privacy-rules-helped-kill/ 4 comments politics
- David Miranda And The Preclusion Of Privacy: "The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. Think that's too strong a statement? If so, you're not paying attention." http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2013/08/david-miranda-and-preclusion-of-privacy.html 74 comments politics
- Japanese angry about Google's violation of privacy -- they want Google to stop taking pictures for Street View http://www.reuters.com/article/internetnews/idustre4bi1gc20081219?feedtype=rss&feedname=internetnews 20 comments technology
- [VI] Eran Zahavi: ‘Thank you all for all your compassion and love. I want to ask everyone for understanding and to respect our privacy so that we can process this. What we have experienced is more than just burglary and theft’ https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/zahavi-en-zijn-vrouw-reageren-emotioneel-op-schokkende-gebeurtenis 11 comments soccer
- Facebook, Google and Microsoft want to show users just how much the federal government requests access to data. The actions are attempts to save face on the privacy front following reports of the PRISM program http://gigaom.com/2013/06/11/google-facebook-microsoft-seek-privacy-points-by-asking-permission-to-disclose-data-requests/ 3 comments technology
- Police in Jackson, Mississippi, want access to live home security video, alarming privacy advocates: "Civil liberties advocates warn that a new surveillance tool would put people’s everyday household activities under potential scrutiny by police." [United States of America] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-jackson-mississippi-want-access-live-home-security-video-alarming-n1249566 10 comments economy
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection Wants to Know Who You Are on Twitter—But It’s a Flawed Plan -- "would violate travelers’ privacy, and would have a wide-ranging impact on freedom of expression—all while doing little or nothing to protect Americans from terrorism" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/us-customs-and-border-protection-wants-know-who-you-are-twitter-its-flawed-plan 4 comments politics
- A bill co-sponsored by Reps. Kevin Yoder, Tom Graves, and Jared Polis—HR 1852, The Email Privacy Act—seeks to update ECPA by requiring a probable cause warrant whenever the government wants to access your online private messages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/congress-must-update-email-privacy-law 15 comments politics
- Big Brother in Your Car: Flo, Progressive’s ubiquitous shill, wants you to see their new tracking devices, which records your vehicle’s every move, not as a privacy-destroying step to justify raising your insurance premiums, but as a great innovation to get you discounts for safe driving. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/big_brother_in_your_car_20120906/ 90 comments technology