Tag: Stuff

Facebook Privacy Issues Getting Worse
Privacy is always a concern when you are spending time on the internet. Facebook is one company who has landed itself in some hot water over privacy of late and it has just gott...
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Facebook to Give Users Way to Turn Off Third-Party Services
Update: Facebook announced today that it will be rolling out simplified privacy...
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Facebook Users Consider Leaving Over Privacy Worries
Facebook's privacy issues have 60 percent of its members considering leaving the social network, according to a new survey by IT security firm, Sophos. The surve...
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Google Launches Encrypted Search Option
Just in time for the weekend and hours-long browsing sessions at home computers, Google's given privacy advocates a gift.  This afternoon, the search giant released the enc...
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Google Begins Cleanup After WiFi Data Blunder
However facepalm-worthy Google's accidental collection of sensitive data sent over WiFi networks may have been, the search giant is at least wasting no time in remedying the sit...
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Google Comes Clean About Wi-Fi Network Data Collection
Google opened up in a blog post today confirming that they have been collecting data from Wi-Fi networks with their Google Maps Street View Cars as they have driven around. This...
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European Data Protection Authorities Blast Facebook
The group of entities that have a problem with Facebook's privacy policies has grown again.  Late yesterday, the Article 29 Working Party (which has quite a bit of pull in...
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YouTube Adds New “Unlisted Video” Privacy Option
YouTube has just introduced a new option that privacy enthusiasts should find appealing. Users can now upload videos and mark them as unlisted. What this means is that only peop...
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Google Downplays Privacy Authorities’ Concerns
Three weeks ago, data protection officials representing Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the UK wrote an open letter to...
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Facebook Hires Former FTC Chairman
The odds that any privacy group - or even the government - will be able to back Facebook into a corner appear to have plummeted.  Facebook's hired Tim Muris, former Chairma...
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Social Network Users Posting Too Much Personal Information
More than half (52%) of social network users in the U.S. have posted personal information such as their full birth date which can make them vulnerable to cyber attacks, accordin...
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MySpace Names New Chief Privacy Officer
Social Media privacy has been the center of much attention, particularly since Facebook...
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Facebook Exciting Publishers with Increased Referrals
After just a week, 50,000 sites across the Web had already implemented the new...
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Facebook Becoming Too Big For Anyone To Question
I’ve seen a lot of angst over the past week about Facebook’s moves to open up your data to other applications. To really understand how huge these changes a...
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Senator Contests Facebook’s New Approach To Privacy
Privacy experts and random users are no longer the only ones complaining about how Facebook's latest moves have affected privacy.  Senator Charles Schumer made an objection...
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