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8 Tips To Make Better Decisions in Your Life - Tips for Life

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Making a Better Decision in your Life is something that each & every one of us comes across in our daily lives. Starting right from when we wake up in the morning and take a look at the time on the alarm clock, is when we start making our day’s first decision like, Should I get out of the bed now? Will I be late for class or work if I sleep a little longer? Even the simplest decision that we make is what takes our life to a different path, with each decision we take in every moment of our life. Right from getting out bed in the morning to going back to sleep at night our life are based on our decisions. And in the end, making the right decision is what we need. But how do you know whether you are making a Right or Wrong decision at the right time? Making a right or wrong decision once a while helps us to build a self-confidence when we need to make another decision later. Mistake is What Makes You Better – Learn from Your Mistakes Don’t let the mista...

Do We Really Have a 'Right' to Digital Privacy?

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Apple's decision to challenge a federal court order to help the FBI "hack" into a shooting suspect's iPhone 5C is drawing into focus a battle which has been brewing for the past several years. The way this debate has been shaped thus far is, as follows: which do we value more, privacy or security? But this argument is overly simplistic, and it also overlooks a key question. Do we actually have a right to digital privacy in the first place? Personally, I think we should, but that does not mean that we actually do. The "right to privacy" is a bedrock concept in U.S. society and a guiding principle in our legal system. But if you look for it in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights, you won't find it. That's because privacy rights aren't as clear-cut as many Americans generally think they are. Even in the most privileged and private areas of our lives -- our homes, our cars, our bodies -- we do not enjoy an unlimi...

Feds Want To Crack A Lot More iPhones Than Just The San Bernardino Terrorist's

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NEW YORK -- A court filing unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday revealed that the federal government wants to compel Apple to help it crack more than just the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists. The filing -- a letter by an Apple lawyer in an unrelated New York drug case -- noted that federal judges across the country have ordered the tech giant to help the federal government unlock as many as 15 iPhones and other Apple devices in a number of ongoing investigations. "Apple has not agreed to perform any services on the devices to which those requests are directed," attorney Marc Zwillinger concludes in a letter dated Feb. 17 . According to the missive, government lawyers have sought and received favorable court orders -- all issued under the controversial All Writs Act  -- for devices being investigated in New York, California, Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts. The probes involve various iPhone models and at least on...