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Navbharat Times (Hindi) |
Loksatta (Marathi) |
Ebela (Bengali) |
The Assam Tribune |
The Economic Times |
Divya Bhaskar (Gujarati) |
Sandesh (Gujarati) |
Deshabhimani (Malayalam) |
Hindustan (Hindi) |
However, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa managed to steal Modi's thunder a bit as her full page advertisements occupied the front jacket of many leading papers in all major cities – so to Modi's half page for one year, Jayalalithaa had four full pages: Glorious rule of four years: Amma's rule forever. |
The Indian Express<|endoftext|>Despite their widespread acceptance of the increasingly liberal privacy policies of sites and services, the majority of American consumers don't, in fact, want their data collected, their activity tracked, or their usage analyzed. A new study from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology asked 1,200 households several straightforward questions about what level of privacy they think they have when using a cell phone, and what information is and is not OK for companies to track and store. The majority thinks they have far more privacy than they do, and are unequivocally opposed to some of the most common forms of data collection. |
"We found that Americans overwhelmingly consider information stored on their mobile phones to be private—at least as private as information stored on their home computers," states the study, which used information collected by both landline and wireless phones. Fifty-nine percent of all respondents ages 18 to 65 and beyond said their phones were "at least as private" as their home computers, and 19 thought their phones were more private than their home computers. |
This is likely not the case, at least in terms of content that apps and sites consider accessible. Mobile phones often contain information like unique device identifiers, or entire address books' worth of information that can be accessed by apps with the right permissions. Respondents also think their phones are paying less attention than they really are: 56 percent said they visit websites with their phones, but only 37 percent said their phone stores information about websites they've visited. |
It's not at all uncommon for websites browsed or apps used on a mobile phone to access, track, and store pieces of this information. It's all but the status quo, and usually neatly outlined by some privacy policy that the end user never reads. Google still scans all your e-mails; Facebook still catalogs your Likes and displays them conspicuously to your friends; a shopping website carefully notes the novelty Avengers t-shirt you were looking at when you navigated away, and its ad network makes sure to display that item in a sidebar or popover later. |
Sometimes a company oversteps the subjective line of privacy violation, as when people learned Path was caching users' address books for seemingly no reason other than "it was there," and it receives some backlash. This is old news. Many mobile phone users are giving this data away for free and are diametrically opposed to its taking and tracking, but continue to use services that do it. |
In one question, the study authors asked participants about two data collection scenarios. In the first, the authors asked if it would be OK for a social networking app to collect users' address books in order to suggest more friends. In the second, they asked if it would be all right if a "coupons app" collected the same information to offer coupons to the users' friends. In both cases, those surveyed answered overwhelmingly that they "definitely would not allow" the collection in either case: 51 percent for the friend suggestions, and 75 percent for the coupons. A further 30 percent and 15 percent, respectively, said they would "probably not allow" it. |
This seems intuitive to us, as in both cases the user benefits little and potentially violates the privacy of friends. And yet, in the wake of the Path hullabaloo and a similar uproar over Facebook's use of address books, it turns out this type of data collection is not uncommon. Because the data collection on mobile phones is so passive—both difficult for companies to notify users about and difficult for users to notice—the users fail to get visibly upset about something that is, at least in theory, upsetting to them. |
The study provides an interesting counter to the accounts of companies who collect this information. Google, for example, has cited the fact that the majority of people who visit their targeted ads settings page don't change anything on it as indication that people like, or at least don't mind, targeted ads. This type of metric doesn't scratch the same point-blank surface as the survey by Berkeley, which shows that users in general are flat-out uncomfortable with some types of data collection. |
The authors point to an excerpt from I'm Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, where workers dance around the issue of browser cookies the company wants to store on users' computers to collect information. Marissa Mayer, a vice president at Google, noted at the time that if the company both explained what cookies were and gave users the chance to opt out, everyone would opt out. Obviously, that didn't further Google's cookie aims. Mayer remained disturbed by the idea of automatic opt-in, but offered only that "a page" should "at least" explain the use of cookies and how to delete them. |
"The gulf between private sector information demands and consumer preferences suggest that better disclosures and choice mechanisms alone will simply preserve the status quo," the study authors write. To close the gap between what users think they're selling and what companies are actually buying, data-wise, the authors say there need to be "incentives" to reduce the collection of information. More importantly, users need to have measures for intervening with data collection after the fact: if a user discovers a company holds data the user doesn't want them to have, the user should have the right to delete information associated with their account and be able to "exit whole."<|endoftext|>Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian worshipers at an entrance to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, leaving 18 people injured. |
According to Ma’an news agency, the mosque is still under Israeli control despite the reopening of some of its doors after the regime installed electronic gates at three entrances to the mosque and closed the others. |
Israeli forces on Sunday reopened the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which includes al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, in East Jerusalem al-Quds two days after they closed it following a deadly shooting in the area. |
Muslims, however, refused to enter the site in protest at the newly-imposed security measures, including metal detectors and cameras. Dozens of worshipers held prayers outside the compound, at the entrance near the Lions' Gate entry to the Old City. |
Israeli forces attacked people outside the compound on Sunday. According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), 18 Palestinians sustained injuries. Four Palestinians were also arrested. |
The report further said Israeli forces conducted inspections inside the mosque, inflicting damage on the place. They broke the locks of the drawers and safes under the pretext of inspecting the mosque, it said. |
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement warned in a statement on Sunday afternoon that Israel will pay the price for the aggression and measures taken in al-Aqsa Mosque, stressing that Palestinians will defend al-Aqsa. |
The statement also described the Israeli actions as a blatant aggression practiced in the absence of any action by Arabs and Muslims to stop Israel’s daily violations of the sanctity of al-Aqsa Mosque. |
The occupied lands have witnessed tensions ever since Israeli forces imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into al-Aqsa Mosque compound two years ago. |
The Tel Aviv regime has been trying to change the demographic makeup of Jerusalem al-Quds by constructing settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population. |
More than 300 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since October 2015, when the tensions intensified. |
Tel Aviv has come under fire for using violence against Palestinians and adopting a policy of shoot-to-kill. |
Palestinian Muslim worshipers, who refuse to enter al-Aqsa Mosque compound due to new measures by Israeli regime, pray near a main entrance to the religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds, on July 16, 2017. (Photo by AFP) |
Meanwhile, two rights groups protested against the closure of the Old City and its vicinity in Jerusalem al-Quds and the ban on Palestinians from entering it. |
The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC) and Adalah - the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel - presented an objection to Israeli authorities as a preliminary procedure. |
They said the Israeli measures are considered as collective punishment that violates the local and international laws. |
The centers stressed that the measures violate the right to free movement and work and are also considered as racist as Israel allows the Jews to enter the compound but bans Palestinian residents of Jerusalem al-Quds from entering or opening their shops. |
Israeli forces shoot fishermen off Gaza |
Meanwhile, Israeli naval forces opened fire on several Palestinian fishermen south of the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday night. |
Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, said two of the fishermen sustained moderate injuries, identifying them as Ibrahim al-Jahjoh and Khedr Abu-Shamaleh. |
The Israeli regime regularly shoots and detains Gazan fishermen over allegations of crossing the "designated fishing zone," which is practically three nautical miles. |
Under a ceasefire agreement reached between Israelis and Palestinians following the deadly Israeli war in August 2014, Tel Aviv agreed to immediately expand the fishing zone off Gaza’s coast, allowing Palestinian fishermen to sail as far as six nautical miles off the shore. The agreement also stipulated that Israel would expand the area gradually up to 12 miles. |
Palestinian fishermen, however, say the Israeli navy opens fire on them before they reach the agreed limit. About 4,000 fishermen work in Gaza, half of whom live below the poverty line. |
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since June 2007. The blockade has caused unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.<|endoftext|> |