{"id":23388,"date":"2011-08-04T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=23388"},"modified":"2011-08-04T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:46:46","slug":"gfi-vipre-privacy-what-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/gfi-vipre-privacy-what-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"GFI Vipre: Privacy? What Privacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By David Kelleher for GFI Vipre<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every so often we are regaled with attention-grabbing headlines announcing the demise of the individual\u2019s right to privacy or how Big Brother has a constant roving eye over us all, recording the minutiae of our very existence.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/is-privacy-respected-300x300.jpg\" title=\"privacy\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We grumble because we are fingerprinted at airports and we complain because our local High Street has more surveillance cameras than street furniture. 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We usually blame this state of affairs on governments, officials with an unhealthy paranoia for security and the media.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfi.com\/blog\/privacy-privacy\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>This excerpt is shared with permission from GFI Vipre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101109sunbeltmalware.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GFI\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every so often we are regaled with attention-grabbing headlines announcing the demise of the individual\u2019s right to privacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[4885,316],"class_list":["post-23388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gfi-vipre","tag-gfi-vipre","tag-privacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GFI Vipre: Privacy? 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