Track the trackers, two utilities for online privacy

Not all people take care of online privacy, the web is a Narcissus place after all. Anyway since Facebook entered our life, privacy has become one of the most important topics of the digital age. Internet services are thirsty of personal data  and an army of never-heard companies work collecting info "under the hood". Two free tools help us to monitor their activities.

An Insight into ACTA

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multilateral enforcement treaty for the purpose of establishing an international standard regulation for counterfeit goods specially generic medicines and intellectual properties on the Internet. Initially developed secretly on 2006 by United States and the depositary Japan, has then been leaked on 2008 when Wikileaks uploaded a discussion paper on his website.

Iubenda, a privacy policy generator

Speaking about Facebook, Google or ACTA, since web 2.0 showed up privacy has become a daily-used word and website privacy policies required for law. This sound as time has come for services like Iubenda.

Start today the new Google privacy policy

Despite European Union warning Google goes ahead and replaces the old more than 60 different privacy policies with a single new one. On february 3 EU authorities,led by french data protection watchdog CNIL, asked for a "pause" to better analyse the new situation saying the giant might violate the European Data Protection Directive