Tag: Stuff

Edward Snowden Appears At SXSW; Calls For Better Online Security Measures
In a rare public appearance, fugitive and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed the audience of the SXSW conference regarding Internet privacy and surveil...
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Mass. Upskirting Photos Ruled Legal; Lawmakers Vote to Ban
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on ruled it legal to take photos underneath a person’s clothing, known as ā€œupskirting.ā€ The high court said on Wednesday that the practi...
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LinkedIn Now Lets You Block People
LinkedIn announced that users can now block other members. According to the company, this has unsurprisingly been a highly requested feature. "I come to you today to assure you...
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FCC Wants Greater Control Of The News
The Federal Communications Commission is planning on conducting a study to determine how news outlets decide what topics to take up. It sounds simple and innocent enough, but many...
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Facebook Adds a Ton of New Gender Options in Support of LGBT Community
Facebook continues to give tons of support to the LGBT community, and today they are taking another step in that direction by offering users a host of new options when they select...
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Facebook Sends Teen’s Emails to Stranger
Facebook is sometimes a fickle friend, but what if your private messages and notifications were being sent to a complete stranger? That's what happened between an American mom...
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Instagram Bug That Could’ve Made Private Photos Public Fixed (Operative Word Being Could’ve)
It looks like Instagram users are lucky that a vulnerability was never utilized - even though the bug was there for at least 6 months. Barcelona-based security researcher Christ...
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NSA Gets Its Very First Privacy Officer
The NSA has always been a controversial government agency as its actions are deemed to go too far at times. Even before the Snowden leaks, people were skeptical of the agency after...
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Nest: If Privacy Policy Changes Under Google, It Will Be Opt-In
Google announced a week ago that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nest Labs, the company behind the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect smart thermostat and smoke detector...
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Snapchat Talks Breach, Updates App
As you're probably aware, Snapchat was the target of a massive security breach that compromised 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers. The company has since responded to the prob...
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Skype Blog Hacked To Tell People Not To Use Microsoft Email
Microsoft's Skype had its Twitter account, Facebook page and blog compromised on Wednesday, with the Syrian Electronic Army taking control of all three to spread its anti-spying/an...
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Home Security Systems: It’s All Good ‘Til It’s Hacked
Home security systems have been flooding the news lately. With the...
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Edward Snowden Interview With Washington Post
In a recent television message from Edward Snowden - his comment "I've already won" undoubtedly has people talking. Edward Snowden, the...
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Twitter Makes Odd Privacy Change, Catches Flak, Promptly Backtracks
In the span of just one day, Twitter made a pretty significant change to a major element of privacy on the site, took a bunch of heat from users, and quickly reverted all changes....
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