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4 Digital Threats to Worry About

November 26, 2012

4 Digital Threats to Worry About

By: Eugene Kaspersky, Foreign Policy

From hacktivism to cyberwarfare, the dangers that define the digital age.

1.Privacy violations: Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and email you send is tracked, and these profiles are then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidders -- whoever they may be. Personal data long thought to be confidential simply isn't anymore. Consider your identity while walking down the street. Facial recognition technology has passed from law enforcement to the public realm -- Facebook uses it in many countries, gathering data from images to recognize you (unless you know to opt out of the feature). That's a violation of your right to privacy, right? Wrong. And who's to say Facebook's photo database, growing by several billion photos a month, won't be handed over to law enforcement agencies or corporations in the future?

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4 Digital Threats to Worry About

4 Digital Threats to Worry About
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