Tag: Stuff

Facebook Responds To CISPA Criticism
After Demand Progress took Facebook to task over the service's support of CISPA, through the use of of an online petition, the social media king offered a response to quell the mas...
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Didn’t Get That Job You Wanted? Facebook May Be To Blame
I think we can all agree that Facebook is huge. It boasts millions of users all over the world, it's a multi-billion dollar company, it has infiltrated other sites that people use...
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The New Google+ Is Only The Beginning
Google launched a big redesign of Google+ on Wednesday. It's in the proce...
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Facebook Apps Skim Extra Private Data Of Users
Today from the Privacy Desk: Facebook apps might be taking more information than users are aware of. Yes, regarding apps, this is not really a surprise, is it? The problem with tod...
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The Internet Or Your Privacy: Which Do You Value More?
There's an old cartoon that came out back in an issue of The New Yorker in 1993, back when the Internet was still damp with amniotic fluid and long before it'd taken its f...
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Facebook, Dropbox Apps Store Personal Info In Unsecured Plain Text Files
A somewhat troubling security flaw has been found in the mobile apps for Facebook and Dropbox. It seems that both apps (and others, presumably) store access tokens in an unsecured...
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Google Answers Half Of France’s Questions About Privacy
Google sent a letter to Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President of CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés), the French administrative authority that monitors how...
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Pinterest Adds Pinboard Covers; No Private Boards
Pinterest announced today that it is now implementing a common request from its many pinners, or users of its site...
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Larry Page Posts Huge Letter About Google’s Direction
Google CEO Larry Page has posted a new update on the company's focus in a nice, lengthy letter on the Google Inv...
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A Social Networking Bill Of Rights? Maybe
By now you've likely heard of last month's scandal about employers requiring employees to h...
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Facial Recognition: Cool or Creepy?
Remember all the technology in movies such as Minority Report? At the time, it seemed so bizarre and futuristic, but som...
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Every Poll Ever: Nobody Likes Being Tracked Online
Internet privacy is steadily becoming the battle meme of 2012 and as the topic permeates the household vocabulary, one fact...
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Apple Has Master Decryption Key For iCloud
Data you store in iCloud is safe from most outsiders, but Apple retains the ability to decrypt and access any data stored on in iCloud's servers, a recent report has found. The mas...
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What Will the FTC’s Privacy Framework Do?
When the Federal Trade Commission released its final report on pr...
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Should Facebook Use Your Activity As Ads?
In the past few months, you've probably seen an increase in "Sponsored Stories" when you're browsing Facebook. If that term doesn't ring a bell,...
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