2011 is going to be an important year in terms of privacy, as the EU is starting to revise and improve the available privacy laws and regulations. What is important is the increased control that is going to be granted to citizens for deleting private data (including photos) from the Internet.
These new laws will require companies, such as Yatedo, to get users' permission before using their uploaded content. Moreover, if they are not respecting users' privacy, severe penalties are going to be enacted. EC also wants businesses to inform consumers about what information is collected, for what reasons, how long it is held, and what their rights are if they want to access, rectify, or delete their data.
"To guarantee this right, we need clear and consistent data protection rules. We also need to bring our laws up to date with the challenges raised by new technologies and globalisation," Viviane Reding, EU justice minister said. The EC plans to synchronise legislation across all 27 members of the EU, cutting the red tape for businesses and law enforcement. A revised EU privacy directive is scheduled to go into effect in 2011, after a period of public consultation through the EC's website in January.
We are looking forward to these improvements that are going to be useful for our fight against Yatedo!
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
More to come against Yatedo
After yesterday's good news, we are expecting also movement at European level.
In fact, the European Commission has announced some months ago its intention to review and modify Data Protection and Privacy laws and rights in order to update them to the state of the art technology.
The European Commissioner Viviane Reding said the new rules should encourage companies to take privacy issues into account from the beginning of a new technology's development cycle, a concept she called "privacy by design".
This means, of course, that young start-up's will need to comply to these regulations even if they are in beta format... alas, they should not function while breaching privacy laws!
In fact, the European Commission has announced some months ago its intention to review and modify Data Protection and Privacy laws and rights in order to update them to the state of the art technology.
The European Commissioner Viviane Reding said the new rules should encourage companies to take privacy issues into account from the beginning of a new technology's development cycle, a concept she called "privacy by design".
This means, of course, that young start-up's will need to comply to these regulations even if they are in beta format... alas, they should not function while breaching privacy laws!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Close Yatedo - now available in all languages
Dear readers,
it is a matter of fact that when we talk about privacy and copyright no one can remain out of the question; it is too important for everyone to be defended for her/his own rights!
The Internet should be a place where new technologies and new ideas contribute to help people and construct something new, but always respecting some fundamental principles.
Who uses the Internet and Information Technology as a way to break these principles, and with a total disrespectful attitude, must be blocked and the entire community has to let these people know that they cannot ruin the Web with this acts and that they have to pay accordingly.
For this reason we have now introduced a new button in order for everyone to be able to read in her/his own mother tongue the important information of this blog.
Thanks for every single reader that believes in a new innovative world that still respects people and their rights.
it is a matter of fact that when we talk about privacy and copyright no one can remain out of the question; it is too important for everyone to be defended for her/his own rights!
The Internet should be a place where new technologies and new ideas contribute to help people and construct something new, but always respecting some fundamental principles.
Who uses the Internet and Information Technology as a way to break these principles, and with a total disrespectful attitude, must be blocked and the entire community has to let these people know that they cannot ruin the Web with this acts and that they have to pay accordingly.
For this reason we have now introduced a new button in order for everyone to be able to read in her/his own mother tongue the important information of this blog.
Thanks for every single reader that believes in a new innovative world that still respects people and their rights.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Yatedo is a farce
The so called Yatedo, a supposed "free people search engine which helps you find and contact anybody throughout the web" IS A FARCE.
Differently from other legal and working Data aggregators and Search engines that actually scan the Internet looking for information about someone, this fraud http://www.yatedo.fr/ is nothing else that a query on their ILLEGAL DATABASE, built up around 2008/2009 by an illegal scan of the Web by the private european citizens we talked you about in the previous posts.
This means that if you hope to find anything currently relevant on the Web by the use of this illegal service, you are completely wrong.
All you do is looking for information on their illegal and illegally maintained database. The only way this bunch of guys have to make this crap really work is for you to subscribe to their illegal database and give them the passwords to your accounts.
ONLY IN THIS WAY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE AND SELL.
So, as any fraud, they pretend they are able to do marvellous things, but the reality is that they put OLD information on You on purpose, so you will subscribe and help them realize what they cannot really do!
Differently from other legal and working Data aggregators and Search engines that actually scan the Internet looking for information about someone, this fraud http://www.yatedo.fr/ is nothing else that a query on their ILLEGAL DATABASE, built up around 2008/2009 by an illegal scan of the Web by the private european citizens we talked you about in the previous posts.
This means that if you hope to find anything currently relevant on the Web by the use of this illegal service, you are completely wrong.
All you do is looking for information on their illegal and illegally maintained database. The only way this bunch of guys have to make this crap really work is for you to subscribe to their illegal database and give them the passwords to your accounts.
ONLY IN THIS WAY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE AND SELL.
So, as any fraud, they pretend they are able to do marvellous things, but the reality is that they put OLD information on You on purpose, so you will subscribe and help them realize what they cannot really do!
DON'T SUBSCRIBE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF THIS FRAUD!
YATEDO IS ILLEGAL: Another proof
As we mentioned, there are many other sites that aggregates Your information around the Internet, some of which actually invented this idea of the reputation you have around and, eventually, you can pay them to take care of it for you (the illegal French Yatedo team of guys is practically stealing the idea of the most famous http://www.yasni.com/).
The fact is that these legal websites report ONLY links to existing information on the Internet and allow you to delete these links if they are not anymore available online, even without subscribing to their website. Why is it so? Simply because these professionals don't even keep track of those links if they are not up to date. So, whoever you are (even not the person referred by the links), it is your right to tell them this information is not anymore updated.
If, on the contrary, you are the real person referred by the links and you desire them to take care about your reputation over the internet, then you can subscribe and, eventually, pay a fee for their services.
In this case, what these websites are doing is perfectly legal as they are just referencing something is already out there and they keep them up to date or let anyone do it .
On the contrary, as we mentioned, this illegal http://www.yatedo.fr/ website is basing on snapshots of information that was taken around 2008/2009 (probably from some country where there are discussable laws, such as China, and probably using the servers of some University) and it has not been updated since then. In this sense they COPIED the information available on the Internet At THAT time and stored it apart, EVEN BEFORE anyone knew about their existence or the Yatedo website existed.
These guys pretend to do exactly what the other websites we cited affirm to do, but IT'S NOT TRUE. As a matter of fact, when whatever informtion is COPIED on another physical support (on some database, on some hard disk located in a NOT DISCLOSED location), you actually create a NEW SOURCE of information YOU HAVE NO CONTROL AT ALL ABOUT.
We don't have to explain you how much illegal is this and which problems can create, such as your current employer that does not want your profile to be public, or you don't want some part of your private life of the past be sponsorized, etc.
Still some doubts? Ok, this is really easy to check and prove: if you use any of the other websites for personal data aggregation, as we said you will have these links to informationt that is public on the internet and to which, to some extent, YOU have the control.
So, ONLY LINKS, no real information stored apart.
UNFORTUNATELY YATEDO WILL BE PART OF THIS REFERENCED INFORMATION. Yes, exactly! This means that this service (the legal one) will tell you that they cannot do anything about it, as the information is still out there.
And here comes the TOTALLY ILLEGAL part: You won't be able to delete YOUR not up to date and probably FALSE information (because of BAD SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE) from Yatedo unless you subscribe to their services and you give them ALL the passwords to your accounts to prove it is really you.
Yes, NO FUNCTIONALITY IS AVAILABLE TO FLAG THAT PIECE OF INFORMATION AS OUTDATED OR FALSE!
Subscribing to their illegal website would thoretically remain THE ONLY WAY (IF ACTUALLY WORKING) to take back control of your data. WHY IS IT SO? Because even if you delete the SOURCE of the information THEY COPIED, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
THAT'S OBVIOUS! THEY STORED IT APART MONTHS OR YEARS AGO, WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT IT or about the way they maintain such data.
so, DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO ILLEGAL YATEDO!
On the contrary continue to contact the European Data Protection Supervisor.
In fact, whatever subtle plan these guys have, they ARE European citizens and they have some of their domains registered in Euope (like the main one www.yatedo.fr).
Moreover we are quite sure that, actually, NO REAL YATEDO COMPANY EXISTS.
This means that these guys will be PERSONALLY responsible in Europe for these acts and will pay accordingly.
The fact is that these legal websites report ONLY links to existing information on the Internet and allow you to delete these links if they are not anymore available online, even without subscribing to their website. Why is it so? Simply because these professionals don't even keep track of those links if they are not up to date. So, whoever you are (even not the person referred by the links), it is your right to tell them this information is not anymore updated.
If, on the contrary, you are the real person referred by the links and you desire them to take care about your reputation over the internet, then you can subscribe and, eventually, pay a fee for their services.
In this case, what these websites are doing is perfectly legal as they are just referencing something is already out there and they keep them up to date or let anyone do it .
On the contrary, as we mentioned, this illegal http://www.yatedo.fr/ website is basing on snapshots of information that was taken around 2008/2009 (probably from some country where there are discussable laws, such as China, and probably using the servers of some University) and it has not been updated since then. In this sense they COPIED the information available on the Internet At THAT time and stored it apart, EVEN BEFORE anyone knew about their existence or the Yatedo website existed.
These guys pretend to do exactly what the other websites we cited affirm to do, but IT'S NOT TRUE. As a matter of fact, when whatever informtion is COPIED on another physical support (on some database, on some hard disk located in a NOT DISCLOSED location), you actually create a NEW SOURCE of information YOU HAVE NO CONTROL AT ALL ABOUT.
We don't have to explain you how much illegal is this and which problems can create, such as your current employer that does not want your profile to be public, or you don't want some part of your private life of the past be sponsorized, etc.
Still some doubts? Ok, this is really easy to check and prove: if you use any of the other websites for personal data aggregation, as we said you will have these links to informationt that is public on the internet and to which, to some extent, YOU have the control.
So, ONLY LINKS, no real information stored apart.
UNFORTUNATELY YATEDO WILL BE PART OF THIS REFERENCED INFORMATION. Yes, exactly! This means that this service (the legal one) will tell you that they cannot do anything about it, as the information is still out there.
And here comes the TOTALLY ILLEGAL part: You won't be able to delete YOUR not up to date and probably FALSE information (because of BAD SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE) from Yatedo unless you subscribe to their services and you give them ALL the passwords to your accounts to prove it is really you.
Yes, NO FUNCTIONALITY IS AVAILABLE TO FLAG THAT PIECE OF INFORMATION AS OUTDATED OR FALSE!
Subscribing to their illegal website would thoretically remain THE ONLY WAY (IF ACTUALLY WORKING) to take back control of your data. WHY IS IT SO? Because even if you delete the SOURCE of the information THEY COPIED, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
THAT'S OBVIOUS! THEY STORED IT APART MONTHS OR YEARS AGO, WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT IT or about the way they maintain such data.
so, DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO ILLEGAL YATEDO!
On the contrary continue to contact the European Data Protection Supervisor.
In fact, whatever subtle plan these guys have, they ARE European citizens and they have some of their domains registered in Euope (like the main one www.yatedo.fr).
Moreover we are quite sure that, actually, NO REAL YATEDO COMPANY EXISTS.
This means that these guys will be PERSONALLY responsible in Europe for these acts and will pay accordingly.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Yatedo is stealing your information
YATEDO is a site that aggregates all the information it finds online about you and makes it public. And this is wrong for a number of reasons, including legal aspects.
If you have a profile on linkedin, facebook, twitter and so on, all the information is copied and republished on Yatedo. If you have a blog, or ever had a blog, a web site, or published anything on the Internet, you have a good chance to see it on Yatedo.
This is a problem as even if you set your profile not pubblic on the other sites, Yatedo will still keep it public on their side. Furthermore, if you update your information on linkedin, for example, this information is not going to be updated on Yatedo.
International privacy agreements and laws (such as the European Community privacy law) are concerned with exactly this: you should know what happens to your information, where it goes, who gets to see it, what they do with it, etc. These concerns are deep rooted in the tremendous history of WWII when such leaks of information were used to commit incredible crimes.
Moreover, the text you publish online, as any other text you publish in print, is protected by copyright laws. Even if it can be used by others online, it can not be used for making a profit on it without your consent. But isn't this what Yatedo does? By making a compilation of all your posts or texts and making them public, they are raising profits out of materials you ahve created.
Thus not only Yatedo is breaking privacy laws by not allowing you to control your personal information, they are even making a profit by not respecting your copyright rights!
The outrageus thing is that, even after requesting Yatedo to delete your profile, they are not doing it. The site works so badly (not to insinuate other consipiracy theories...) that one is not able to subscribe and delete their own profile!
What can one do then? For one thing, let's unite forces and request to close the site down!
You can follow our protest on twitter, facebook and linkedin, you can find us as Close_Yatedo.
The Close Yatedo Group
If you have a profile on linkedin, facebook, twitter and so on, all the information is copied and republished on Yatedo. If you have a blog, or ever had a blog, a web site, or published anything on the Internet, you have a good chance to see it on Yatedo.
This is a problem as even if you set your profile not pubblic on the other sites, Yatedo will still keep it public on their side. Furthermore, if you update your information on linkedin, for example, this information is not going to be updated on Yatedo.
International privacy agreements and laws (such as the European Community privacy law) are concerned with exactly this: you should know what happens to your information, where it goes, who gets to see it, what they do with it, etc. These concerns are deep rooted in the tremendous history of WWII when such leaks of information were used to commit incredible crimes.
Moreover, the text you publish online, as any other text you publish in print, is protected by copyright laws. Even if it can be used by others online, it can not be used for making a profit on it without your consent. But isn't this what Yatedo does? By making a compilation of all your posts or texts and making them public, they are raising profits out of materials you ahve created.
Thus not only Yatedo is breaking privacy laws by not allowing you to control your personal information, they are even making a profit by not respecting your copyright rights!
The outrageus thing is that, even after requesting Yatedo to delete your profile, they are not doing it. The site works so badly (not to insinuate other consipiracy theories...) that one is not able to subscribe and delete their own profile!
What can one do then? For one thing, let's unite forces and request to close the site down!
You can follow our protest on twitter, facebook and linkedin, you can find us as Close_Yatedo.
The Close Yatedo Group
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