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Sites like Facebook and Twitter provide users with a place to share personal information with friends family and the public – an activity that’s proven to be hugely compelling to Internet users. In response to the demand technology is evolving to encourage the disclosure of information that was formerly discreet (like location) and to enable the sharing of information even when not sitting in front of a traditional computer (like from mobile phones).
But it doesn’t take much forethought to realize that there are countless privacy pitfalls in a world where a near-endless stream of personal bits is indiscriminately posted indefinitely stored and quietly collected and analyzed by marketers, identity thieves, and professional government snoops in America and abroad. The public controversies that have erupted to date – Facebook’s drastic terms of service changes and Google Buzz’s forced sharing of email contacts – are only the first snares in a rapidly growing thicket of social networking privacy issues.
Here are some of the ways EFF is working to protect your privacy as the use of social networks grows:
EFF has gone toe-to-toe with the government to uncover hidden details about how they use social networking sites for investigations data collection and surveillance.
EFF works to expose issues with social networks as soon as they emerge from the leaking of information to advertisers or the policies of the sites themselves. EFF helps savvy users better understand how to strengthen their privacy online and mu out of information sharing.
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OCTOBER 16, 2013 What Do Iran and Facebook Agree On?
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 Data Broker Acxiom Launches Transparency Tool. But Consumers Still Lack Control
JULY 26, 2013 Pinterest Commits to Respecting Do Not Track
JULY 3, 2013 How To Opt Out Of Twitter’s Tailored Advertisements (And More!)
JULY 3, 2013 Twitter Shows The Way Forward With Do Not Track
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Search Engines
Google Yahoo MSN AOL and other search engines record your search queries and maintain massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of your life. When revealed to others these details can be embarrassing and even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to know where you or your child work or go to school? How about everyone seeing searches that reference your medical history financial information sexual orientation or religious affiliation?
Unfortunately information stored with a third-party is given much weaker legal protection than that on your own computer. It can be all too easy for the government or individual litigants to get access to your search history and connect it with your identity.
Your search data demands more substantive legal and technical protections. Learn more about this issue below and take action to defend your privacy.
Google v. DoJ Subpoena
In January 2006 the Justice Department asked a federal court in San Jose California to force Google to turn over search records for use as evidence in a case where the government is defending the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). On March 17 2006 the judge rejected the government’s overreaching request for user records.
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DECEMBER 10, 2014 Google News Shuttered in Spain Thanks to “Ancillary Copyright” Law
JULY 8, 2014 Rights That Are Being Forgotten: Google. the ECJ. and Free Expression
JANUARY 18, 2014 Getting Copyright Right for the 21st Century
FEBRUARY 23, 2012 How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
FEBRUARY 21, 2012 How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
FEBRUARY 1, 2012 What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy
MARCH 31, 2011 EFF to Council of Europe: Ensure Privacy. Transparency. and Freedom of Expression in Search Engines
FEBRUARY 2, 2011 As International Privacy Day is Celebrated. Governments Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights
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