‘Privacy campaigners expressed shock last night after it emerged that large amounts of confidential personal information held about British citizens on a giant computer network spanning the European Union could be accessed by more than 500,000 terminals.

The figure was revealed in a Council of the European Union document examining proposals to establish a new agency, based in France, that would manage much of the 27 EU member states’ shared data. But the sheer number of access points to the Schengen Information System (SIS) – which holds information regarding immigration status, arrest ­warrants, entries on the police national ­computer and a multitude of personal details – has triggered concerns about the security of the data.’

‘The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday. International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a cyber attack becomes a declaration of war.

He also called for a “driver’s license” for internet users. “If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance”.’

Author: Internet Survival Guide

If you wish to be a successful Internet marketer you will want to avoid these 8 mistakes:

1. Failure to prepare properly. Many Internet marketers are simply lazy and will not make the effort to prepare properly. Refrain from being overly anxious as if you’ll miss the boat if you do not market your website immediately. Use however many days it takes to setup all the appropriate advertising accounts and advertisements properly. This will make your administration more efficient and enable you to fly through your schedule tasks effortlessly each day. The net result is that your marketing efforts will be far more productive than if you were to take a haphazard approach.

‘Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is to make the largest ever single charitable donation with a pledge of $10 billion (£6 billion) for vaccine work over the next decade. Mr Gates said that he hoped the coming ten years would be the “decade of the vaccineâ€� to reduce dramatically child mortality in the world’s poorest countries. It is calculated that his pledge could save more than 8 million lives.’

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I did an important post on this blog a few months ago about the importance of having a decent virus checker, spyware checker and firewall installed on your PC. Some viruses can be particularly stubborn, and are tricky to remove to say the least.

The  next time you hear a politician use the
Word ‘billion’ in a casual  manner, think about
Whether you want the ‘politicians’  spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to  comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting  that figure into some perspective in
One of it’s  releases.

A.
A  billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A  billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A  billion hours ago our ancestors were
Living in the Stone  Age.

 This will change your life forever

John Di Lemme teaching the ‘2′ Second Miracle Kick it NOW Motivational Teaching recorded LIVE at a LifeStyle Freedom Club Mastermind event (WARNING – This Will Change Your Life FOREVER)!

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‘Since April this year Rich joined me in using the process of NCRTS against the police, the courts (including the high court), credit card companies, the DVLA, councils and many others, in fact anyone who sends us ‘paper’ through the post we do not wish to receive. The objective is very clear; we do not want to or have to contract with anyone we wish not to contract with. After serving our affidavits on the queen we instructed Elizabeth that we no longer wish to play their game and this is all we needed to do. The NCRTS process is the action needed to show that we mean what we say, i.e. walking the walk rather that just talking the talk. We said ‘NO’ and we mean ‘NO’.’

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‘The levy on advertising revenue is the latest plank in France’s drive to regulate the internet, which has seen it enact some of the world’s toughest antipiracy legislation.

Besides Google, the tax would target other large operators in Europe such as Microsoft and Yahoo! whether or not their offices are in France. Google’s European headquarters are in Ireland, but under the proposal, the operator would pay a levy every time a French internet user clicks on an advertising banner or sponsored link on its sites.’

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6947706/France-plans-Google-tax-on-internet-searches.html

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