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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

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According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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What To Know About Privacy Data

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Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA): This act generally restricts the surveillance of electronic communication methods. As the digital age evolved, in 2006, the Council of Europe declared a Data Protection Day.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

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You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. In 2006, several of the same scientists who developed Tor founded the Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.