Tag: Stuff

Apple Wins Anti-Surveillance, Search, Navigation Patents
Yesterday was a big day for Apple when it comes to patents. Late yesterday they were assigned several new patents related to a wide variety of technologies, including one that shou...
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Google Responds To 3D Maps Privacy Concerns
A little while ago we brought you news that New York Senator Charles Schumer had...
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Apple, Google Maps Raise Privacy Concerns With U.S. Senator
UPDATE: Google has responded with the following statement: We take privacy very seriously and appreciate the Senator’s concerns. We met with hi...
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Google Still Granting 93% of User Data Requests to U.S. Gov’t
Google released it's semi-annual Transparency Report for July to December 2011 over the weekend and, as always, there are so...
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Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit With $10 Million To Charity
A northern California district judge has said that "economic injury" could be proven by plaintiffs suing Facebook over Sponsored Stories, and Facebook has agreed to settle the laws...
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Is Social Media Hurting Our Culture?
With Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other popular social websites woven into both our personal and business lives, it is clear that society has become dependent on social me...
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Facebook Wants More Information On Why You’re Reporting People
There are nearly a dozen legitimate (and a couple dozen illegitimate) reasons why you would report a certain Facebook user to the FB authority. Whether you're reporting a fake acc...
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Facebook Gives You More Options To Wade Through All Those Notifications
Facebook has offered users the chance to cut back on all of those pesky notification emails for some time now. All users have to do is to tell Facebook to only send "important upd...
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Instant Personalization and Public Search Come To Facebook Security Settings
For those always on the lookout for new ways to ramp up their privacy and security on the site, Facebook has just added two additional options for privacy control to their...
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Google, Apple’s Next Generation of 3D Maps Raise Privacy Concerns
If the latest trend among big technology companies is any indication, using satellites to capture imagery for mapping services is a pretty passé way of going about business these d...
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Facebook Adopts Updated Policies After Minimal Voter Turnout
After a flood of comments orchestrated by a privacy group triggered a vote on Facebook's proposed policy changes, the company...
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Apple To Unveil Developer Analytics Tool That Preserves User Privacy
In a world where virtually every computer is connected to virtually every other computer, millions of people spend countless hours reading and posting to social networks, and so ma...
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Google Street View Can Stay in Switzerland, but with Restrictions
Google was given the green light to continue driving its Street Cars around in Switzerland today, according to the...
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Facebook’s “Message Seen” Feature Is Your Obsessive Girlfriend’s Dream Come True
Ok, before you say anything about the gender choice in the title, let me be clear - obsessive and paranoid boyfriends could become just as entrapped by Facebook's new "Message Seen...
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Reminder: Facebook’s Site Governance Vote Closes Soon
A week ago, Facebook opened up its second-ever Site Governance Vote, which l...
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