Tag: Stuff

Twitter’s Protected Tweets and What They Mean
So Twitter released this statement on August 29:...
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Trent Reznor on Twitter, Oversharing, and How Dick Pics Aren’t OK
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor may operate a Twitter account with over 1.6 million followers, but that doesn't mean that he thinks all the sharing that's going on over there is a-ok...
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Facebook Proposes Updates To Its Data Use Policy
Late last year, Facebook held its final site govern...
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Groklaw To Shut Down As Editor Doesn’t Want Government Going Through Its Virtual Underwear
Groklaw, an award-winning and highly respected legal site dealing mainly in software law, is shutting down due to fears of government spying. Specifically, the site's editor Pam Jo...
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Do Users And Businesses Have Legitimate Gripes With Gmail?
Google is making waves with Gmail a lot these days for a variety of reasons, and this week, users are freaking out about something the company said in a court document regarding em...
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Facebook Assuages Photo-Posting Privacy Concerns, Talks EXIF Data
You may have seen a viral message sweeping around Facebook lately - one that claims that simply posting a photo on the network could open you up to info-snooping. Basically, the wa...
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Wikimedia Plans To Beef Up Security Across Projects With HTTPS
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on making its projects more secure to protect users' privacy. As one can imagine, there are plenty of technological obstacles that the found...
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DuckDuckGo Had Over 100 Million Searches In July
As terms like "NSA" and "PRISM" start to embody the modern-day bogey man for many who take ideas like privacy seriously, a small, but increasing amount of web users alter their beh...
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Facebook Releases Guide to Help Prevent Abuse in Partnership with Domestic Violence Group
Facebook is looking to make a push to help prevent domestic abuse in the social media realm by teaming up with its safety advisory board to launch a new guide for survivors of such...
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NTIA Introduces Mobile App Code of Conduct For Privacy
The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) this week announced that its stakeholder partners for an app transparency process will soon begin testing...
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Developer Works Around Google Glass Restrictions With Custom OS
Google Glass has a lot of potential, but some may feel that Google is squandering said potential with its heavy handed regulation. The company has...
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Is Microsoft The Biggest Big Brother Of Them All?
Microsoft made headlines yesterday when its CEO, Steve Ballmer, announced a massive re...
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Microsoft Allows NSA/FBI To Access Outlook, Skype, Other Communication Software
Over at the YouTube page for Microsoft's Your Privacy is Our Priority video, the description features the followi...
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NSA Is Writing Security Code For Android
The openness of Android has always been a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because anybody can do what they want with it, but that openness means...
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