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With the advent of the Internet, data has become available worldwide at the click of a button-including sensitive personal data. What is the potential for misuse of this information, and can users be sure that sites visited for online shopping, banking, and social networking are storing it safely? This program examines the transmission, storage, and use of electronic information, with the Australian Web site Seek serving as a case study. Seek's security...
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In 2014, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that individuals have a right to be forgotten online, "the right-under certain conditions-to ask search engines to remove links with personal information about them." This right is not absolute, however, but meant to be balanced against other fundamental rights, like freedom of expression. In the six months following the court's decision, Google received more than 180,000 removal requests. Of those...
3) Surveillance
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In 2013 Edward Snowden revealed to the world the systematic surveillance of global internet traffic by the US and the UK. What he revealed was simply spectacular. Ben Hammersley travels to Washington DC, New York, London and Berlin to examine the ramifications of Snowden's NSA files. Do our governments need these powers to protect us from terrorism, pedophilia and cyber criminality? Or should we fight for the right to privacy online?
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When the next terrorist attack occurs, will it be by air strike or keystroke? This program reveals the vulnerability of the internet backbone to paralyzing hack attacks and measures being taken to close some of the many holes in the net. After discussing the open nature of online communications and how attacks via landline are conducted, security consultants demonstrate the ease with which cyberterrorists can breach wireless networks by "war driving."...
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Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies are connected to every website. This film explores the intent hidden within these unread and ignored agreements, and reveals what corporations and governments are legally taking from people and the outrageous consequences that result from clicking "I accept."