Youtube, online movies, music, torrents? Not any more. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)?

Annabelle McKinley asked: Being negotiated by the United States, the European Commission, and many other civilized countries. If passed in July at the 34th G8 summit, you could be randomly searched without a warrant for illegal files; mp3s, movies, images, whatever it is, wherever it is, including your mp3 player, laptop, or phone. Since it [...]

Youtube, online movies, music, torrents will be outlawed. Searches for illegal electronic material, no warrent

Annabelle McKinley asked: Being negotiated by the United States, the European Commission, and many other civilized countries. If passed in July at the 34th G8 summit, you could be randomly searched without a warrant for illegal files; mp3s, movies, images, whatever it is, wherever it is, including your mp3 player, laptop, or phone. Since it [...]

What are the best free(downloadable) softwares for protecting computer from hacking?

cherry berry asked: I have anti-virus (Avast) though I have heard that other than a good anti-virus one should have good anti-malware, good anti adware? and such…
What do you recommend for deleting or finding adwares, malwares and such that can increase the privacy of computer more?
Hope it can be found on www.download.com
Preferably the ones [...]

After writing someone a message on myspace, they can check my status online because it has online now li?

elwood99us asked: I lik my privacy on myspace, but recently myspace has been messing up/
I have the box checked to hide my status, yet my status appears on the blog and in someone’s inbox if they have an old message from me.
I also removed access to my myspace blog because it has the [...]

Do I need a lawyer? What type do I need? Personal Pictures/Privacy Violation?

EVOX asked: So, I’ve got this psycho ex who has some pictures of me in, shall we say… compromising situations. These pictures were taken by myself and stored on my own personal computer with password protection. Unbeknownst to me said ex got access to the photos and now that we are not on kind terms [...]

Do medical patients have any sort of privacy rights?

Annie asked: I went to an immediate care clinic after I had fallen and hurt my head.
The nurse punched in my SS number and date of birth. Next she asked about my medications. I told her I was not currently on any meds.
Then she asked So you don’t take adderall anymore?
I had had an adderall [...]

I work from home somedays using a VPN client for internal access- can my boss track my computer activity?

A_H_lady asked: …and if so, how?
with the kind of privacy I get, I can watch porn during work hours, but I want to make sure that VPNs…or anytime I’m on their network, they’re not spying on what webpages I view, cuz I think we are all guilty of surfing online non-work related pages…and this would [...]

With many people using my computer yahoo search, i get 2 C MORE than I want 2 on auto-complete. How 2 stop?

Allen K asked: I respect my friends and families privacy and therefore when I find they have used adult oriented searches or personal searches on subjects like pregnancy, et cetera… I don’t want to know about it. Likewise… I will likely want to post searches on touchy subjects or even an occassional search into [...]

Youtube, online movies, music, torrents will be outlawed, enforced. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement?

Annabelle McKinley asked: Being negotiated by the United States, the European Commission, and many other civilized countries. If passed in July at the 34th G8 summit, you could be randomly searched without a warrant for illegal files; mp3s, movies, images, whatever it is, wherever it is, including your mp3 player, laptop, or phone. Since it [...]

Government and computer manufacturers caught installing keyloggers into ALL new computers?

Darqblade asked: GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS CAUGHT INSTALLING HARD-WIRED KEYSTROKE LOGGERS INTO ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS! Requests from the Department of Homeland Security refused to answer a Freedom of Information Act request to answer this, after the police were called regarding the keyloggers found on the new laptops, which is, in my estimation, a [...]