Pinboard: bookmarks for citizenk tagged 'privacy'

Like other "social" apps (cough eVite cough), Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, "I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you w

facebook social socialnetworks internet privacy
november 2007 by citizenk

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The wonderful horrible life of Facebook users and their data (or, "data hogs get slaughtered")

Facebook is pushing themselves into a position of being viewed as ungrateful data hogs: amassing tons of information, selling it under false pretense, and not sharing it with the folks who gave it to them.

facebook privacy marketing advertising security data
november 2007 by citizenk

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UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time
Privacy Encryption UK Law rights Politics Cryptography news
october 2007 by citizenk

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Bruce Schneier - The ID Chip You Don't Want in Your Passport - washingtonpost.com

RFID chips don't have to be plugged in to a reader to operate. Like the chips used for automatic toll collection on roads or automatic fare collection on subways, these chips operate via proximity. The risk to you is the possibility of surreptitious acces

travel security Privacy article
september 2006 by citizenk

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Seek and Ye Shall Be Found

The only way to remove this threat is for search companies to voluntarily delete the information from their search logs, foregoing whatever future revenue or marketing advantage they might be able to get from exploiting the data. If the companies persist

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september 2006 by citizenk

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Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Andrew Brown: on how much we divulge to Google & co

One of the first researchers to demonstrate that we will tell anything, however intimate, to a computer, was Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT, who in 1966 wrote a programme called "Eliza" that parodied non-directional psychotherapy. If the user typed anything in,

google search aol internet article privacy web
august 2006 by citizenk

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TrackMeNot

We are disturbed by the idea that search inquiries are systematically monitored and stored by corporations like AOL, Yahoo!, Google, etc. and may even be available to third parties. Because the Web has grown into such a crucial repository of information a

firefox extension privacy search
august 2006 by citizenk

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Daring Fireball: iTunes MiniStore Is Now Opt-In

You can argue that this is how it should have shipped a week ago, and you’d be right. But I think the explanation is simply that the iTunes team didn’t anticipate that the MiniStore feature could be misconstrued — they knew it wasn’t the least bit

apple music itunes privacy software
january 2006 by citizenk

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B&TW: IE Priv-Sec

This page provides a guided tour of most of the major privacy and security settings within Internet Explorer. We'll cover the following aspects of privacy and security in Internet Explorer:

security IE browser guide privacy tips
december 2005 by citizenk

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