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2012/05/26 19:42
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... is baked into its very design. The Facebook revolution, such that it is, has been about making internet users comfortable with the fact of their online identity. Mark Zuckerberg banished the days...
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2012/05/26 11:23
2012/05/26 11:23
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... up ruining the consumer experience, by imposing a whole layer of decision making about their privacy settings before they can even get onto the site they were trying to access in the first...
2012/05/26 01:00
2012/05/26 01:00
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Ever run into a video that’s blocked because you aren’t in a supported region? It’s annoying, but ProxMate is a simple extension for Chrome and Firefox that unblocks region-specific content from...
2012/05/25 20:32
2012/05/25 20:32
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A do-not-track law focused on protecting Web users' privacy may not be necessary, with private groups working to implement recommendations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency's chairman...
2012/05/25 18:55
2012/05/25 18:55
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The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) is running up against what seems to be a chronic problem with Google: difficulty in getting all of the information it requested. The...
2012/05/25 17:00
2012/05/25 17:00
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... using 'cookies' - data files that remember computer logins, email addresses and previous internet activity. The new rules, contained in an EU directive, mean UK websites must be upfront...
2012/05/25 15:38
2012/05/25 15:38
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The hacking group Anonymous may or may not have launched its very own operating system. Dubbed Anonymous OS Live, the operating system, which is available as a free download on Sourceforge, is based...
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2012/05/25 14:29
2012/05/25 14:29
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... for government agencies was in managing government’s obligation to maintain citizens’ privacy and the relatively fluid nature of privacy on social media sites such as Facebook. “An...
2012/05/25 13:21
2012/05/25 13:21
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Google Again Clashing With Regulators Over Privacy( Page 1 of 2 ) Google officials once again are being accused by regulators of not being cooperative with investigators looking into privacy issues...
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2012/05/25 12:22
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Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few --- as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual...
2012/05/24 22:22
2012/05/24 22:22
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European privacy regulators want better answers from Google about its privacy policy, and the way it informs its users about changes to it. One of the first things the regulators had wanted to know...
2012/05/24 21:49
2012/05/24 21:49
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... Hollywoodlifers, the ‘Breaking Dawn’ and ‘Cosmopolis’ star made this astounding revelation in on interview with the French nightly TV news show, ‘Le Grand...
2012/05/24 17:44
2012/05/24 17:44
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New legislation introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress this month takes aim at an employer’s right to ask employees for their social networking passwords. The bills, sponsored by Democratic...
2012/05/24 16:54
2012/05/24 16:54
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It's not quite Y2K but online publishers are awaiting May 26, the day U.K. regulators begin monitoring for compliance with the European Union's privacy directive in the U.K. The directive has and will...
2012/05/24 11:43
2012/05/24 11:43
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The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority investigating Google’s new privacy policy on behalf of the European Union’s 27 member states,...
2012/05/24 03:09
2012/05/24 03:09
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May 23, 2012 (WPVI) -- Facebook is here to stay mostly because we keep feeding it the private details of our lives that it then turns into profit. Status updates, pictures, wall posts all paint a...
2012/05/23 18:54
2012/05/23 18:54
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Using insecure Wi-Fi networks from your smartphone or tablet poses similar security risks as when connecting from PCs and laptops. If the Wi-Fi connection isn’t encrypted like most public hotspots...
2012/05/23 18:38
2012/05/23 18:38
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... some advocates of stronger cyberbullying laws are critical of IPA. Parry Aftab, an Internet privacy and security lawyer and founder of advocacy groups Wiredsafety and...
2012/05/23 04:38
2012/05/23 04:38
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CountryWhois is a utility for identifying the geographic location of an IP address. CountryWhois can be used to analyze server logs, check e-mail address headers, identify online credit card fraud, or...
2012/05/22 23:17
2012/05/22 23:17
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THE federal government will move to tighten up privacy rules to give people more information on how their personal details are being used on the internet. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says the...