Dear Privacy Council member,
After 30 days of providing open membership to our community-driven list removal service, we’re proud to announce the 500th member.
Collectively, we’ve removed everyone from 4,320 marketing lists, including Do Not Call and all of the direct marketing and catalog lists.
This has reduced waste from junk mail, and hopefully, improved the quality [...]

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CNN Reported that candidates have resorted to setting up robocalls that sound like phone sex. I thought we crossed the proverbial line with the calls themselves, it appears this takes it to a whole new level:
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A few years ago, I was checking my Yahoo! email account and saw that I had received dozens of strange emails. All of them were listed as “undeliverable,” as if I’d sent the emails out, but then they’d gone to a nonexistent email address and bounced back to me. The problem was, I didn’t recall [...]

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“Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama [...]

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You’re walking through the shopping mall, and you see a shiny chrome motorcycle sitting in the center of the atrium. Beside it is a huge sign: “Win this bike!” There is a stack of entry cards sitting on a table, and people are filling out the cards and dropping them into a slotted box. You think [...]

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Have you ever been clicking your way through cyberspace, when suddenly, a very important-looking window pops up? It usually looks like it’s part of Microsoft Windows, and it says something like, “Warning! Your computer is at risk! Click ‘OK’!” Do you click on it? Is your computer really at risk? Is Windows trying to tell [...]

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This week’s security threat: clickjacking.
Clickjacking is the latest in a series of security threats to web surfers. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a warning about clickjacking on September 26, and the news has spread quickly. This is a crime in which hackers hide behind harmless-looking websites so that people who visit them might be [...]

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Brought to you by San Francisco based ForestEthics, this petition needs your support to end Junk Mail.

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Across the country this month, cyber security professionals, software companies and government agencies are working to raise awareness of online security issues by encouraging people to protect their computers, educate themselves and take responsibility for online security. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) is sponsoring this fifth-annual event and partnering with the National Cyber Security [...]

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The latest from Reuters: According to a survey done by Careerbuilder.com, 22 percent of potential employers check the web identities of potential new hires. That’s up from 11 percent just two years ago. And what’s more, a third of the potential employees who are checked out online are ruled unacceptable for the job they want because of [...]

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