Snapchat is used by a lot of people to broadcast their short videos
and other things like Memes. As Snapchat always underlines the
statement: “Your data is secure and your privacy is our concern”,
this could leave a black spot on their white vest.

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Office, Microsoft, Cloud. Three words that are a
trigger when it comes to privacy and safety of your
private data. It seems as if Microsoft is going to
improve data protection… but not for all!

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When you speak of Privacy, then mostly the own
data is meant. Where Cloud Services and also
manufacturers of hardware, like Apple or Samsung
point out to be safe, Apple sees their hardware safe!

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GrayKey, a little box used by law enforcement facilities to
reveal information and data from locked iPhones has been
rendered useless with the release of iOS 12. Although the
box may still retrieve unencrypted files and metadata…

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Whatsapp is facing security issues all the time. The newest
one allows MITM attacks where the attacker can alter sent
messages or hide them in a group chat from certain group
members. How the attack works shows the following video.

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Big data nowadays is a big issue when it comes to privacy.
Especially when you have to share sensitive data in order
to use particular services. Facebook seems to have gone
a step further and sent queries to U.S. banks.

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As you might have already noticed, UK premier Cameron today stated that
encrypted chat tools on either device shall no longer be allowed or they get
banned (in the UK). Okay, the terror act in Paris wasn’t very good either
but using this as a reason to disallow normal people have privacy?

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Well For a very long time, TV sets were nothing more than an image
projector. Since TV sets nowadays have a computer built-in so they can
display entire online content and smart innovations like image
improvement, their abilities can reach far beyond your imagination…

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Well, since today you’d better reconsider your thoughts and plans. According to
the french government, the french border control has all rights to search your
PDA for evidence (whatever it could be) without prior suspect. As this might
be a serious break with the right of privacy, the experts are alarmed.

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So Tina Turner finally has decided to get the swiss passport and also become
swiss citizen. Living for over 20 years in Küsnacht (Zurich), Tina Turner has
enjoyed the decent respect she got in Switzerland. No picturehunters at her
doors waiting for a shot. And swiss fans didn’t bother her every time.

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Google got fined $22.5 million for repeatedly violating the privacy policy
concerning user data. The fine has mainly been spoken for using cookies in the
mobile browsers of iPhone, iPad and android devices. The main problem was
that no usr confirmation for the cookies was needed.

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SOPA, ACTA and other things that do not correlate with Privacy online.
In Germany another thing actually seems to break one’s privacy. The
changes in Germany’s registration law seem to allow almost unlimited
forwarding of personal info for but not limited to commercial purposes.

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Seems as if Apple, Facebook and 16 other companies are facing rough times.
As of today, a lawsuit has been filed from 13 private users against at the court
in Austin(TX), USA. Therefore the private users accuse Apple, Facebook,
Twitter, Electronic Arts, RIM, HP, Microsoft, Amazon and others.

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Yep, you read right. This Blog now protects certain blog entries from being
viewed by everyone. I am following people’s requests upon privacy. As other
sites (Facebook & Co.) don’t hold it so good with privacy and publication of
intellectual goods (pics and private texts), I took one step ahead.

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