Our anti-stalking guide for iPhone users spells out the subtle (and often invisible) ways in which someone could track you via your own phone, and it teaches you how to change your settings to keep yourself in control. If you face a situation like my friend's, then this may not be the only step you'll have to take in order to protect yourself—but it will certainly help. (A similar guide for Android users is on the way.)

Sending confidential information such as passwords, account information and other sensitive data in emails and IM is not necessarily safe. That data is typically stored with remnants of the bits in places you don't need it to be.

A safe and convenient place for your personal information

The first thing you do in Personal is add gems and data to your private and secure data vault. Built with security and legal protections that are better than most banks, your vault lets you store and organize all the information that powers your life. Whether using a computer, tablet or smartphone, your data is always with you.

The beauty of structured data - create it once, use it forever

The future of the internet is based on data computers can easily understand and use. This is what we call structured machine-readable data.

That's how almost all data in Personal is designed. You can enter or import something once and use it over and over. Seriously, we can imagine a future without forms – where you never have to type your name or home address again.

Personal's gemware makes creating high-quality structured data even easier. Make sure to check out all of our gemware and add whatever you want to your vault.

Discover and join the vibe around your city, neighborhood, or building. Chat anonymously with people nearby without necessarily knowing them!

Vibe displays thoughts (text and photos) posted by nearby users whether at work, home, school, parties, ball games, conferences, etc. There's no registration so it's quick, easy and anonymous.

To contribute to the vibe, just post what's on your mind and select how far and for how long you want it visible.

You can share text, photos, and videos with people within 160 feet or miles away and for as little as 15 minutes or up to 30 days. You also have the option to tweet your vibes to your followers.

Vibe is useful at work (back channel for meetings and conferences), at school (lectures and campus life), sports (football and baseball games), and for fun (clubs, parties, treasure hunts).

Here are the distance and time options of your vibes:

Generate long passwords that are easy to remember.

cryptbin is the easiest way for activists to share information with strong encryption.
Enter your data and a cryptbin key pair. We'll give you a link.
cryptbin is an answer to the lack of information privacy in today's world. All data stored or transmitted by cryptbin is for your (and your recipient's) eyes only.

TRUSTe whitepaper on location based applications - "Location-Aware Mobile Applications: #Privacy Concerns & Best Pra...

Essential Reading :: HowTo Protect Your #Privacy On #Google +1 RT @GlenGilmore

RT @GWSchulzCIR Anonymous #DHS employee goes online to question constitutionality of random passenger searches #privacy

RT @GWSchulzCIR: #SCOTUS unanimously finds that corporations DO NOT enjoy a personal #privacy defense against #FOIA requests: ...

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile collaboration and P2P file sharing device. Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movment, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless file sharing networks where users can anonymously share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content.

Some cameras can store GPS (location) coordinates in a photo's EXIF header. If you like, Flickr can use that data if it's available to place your photos on your map automatically.

RT @lksugarman: Play games on #FB? Want to protect your online #privacy? Forget it! FB Says User Data Sold to Broker

If you’re concerned about how Google is using your personal information, there are steps you can take to protect yourself. We’ve compiled a toolbox of resources that we have found helpful in protecting our privacy. Check back often as we will be adding more as we find them.

What the Web Knows about you - The Kim Komando Show #privacy

All of Facebook's privacy controls are now available from any browser-enabled mobile device to the more than 500 million people, like you, who are using Facebook in every country around the world. Few online services offer any privacy controls to their mobile users. None that we know of offer the same control as the desktop version.

Ouch! "Mark #Zuckerberg's #Privacy Settings" #facebook #fail #hypocrisyanyone #sharingiscaring

Sweet. Lifehacker's Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on the Web. #privacy #freespeech

The web is still buzzing about Google Buzz, sorry I just had to say it and everyone has their opinions about it. Personally I thank google buzz is great and I have my reasons to think that way but I’ll share those in another blog post. I did leave a comment on a webworkerdaily.com blog post called: Google Buzz: Already Better than Wave (and Maybe Facebook, Too) Saying: Yes, I think buzz is better than Wave at the moment for conversations but not for private collaborations. For that I’ll stick to Google Wave. Buzz is more like friendfeed than anything else. As for using it more than Twitter or Facebook in the future, I’m not sure but the possibility is there because it’s linked to google reader and my gmail.

Private files acts as a proxy, making sure users are logged in before they can download any files. The nice thing about is, it doesn't modify the current uploads at all, doesn't store files in a different place, so if you want to stop using it, all links to files stay the same, so you don't need to redo anything.

So you have somehow begged, borrowed or stolen an email list of 1000 users who you believe are interested in your new service. Would it not be great if you could somehow convert that list into real people, with real photos, and perhaps even more concrete information like "My service has a higher than average gay consumer group" or "My dating service seems to be very popular among 9 year old girls"? Such information can help you correct course before you are too invested in a particular idea you have.

These reductions in privacy protection have significant negative consequences for activists, particularly in repressive regimes where they communicate and affiliate more freely online than they can offline. When Facebook unilaterally removes barriers of privacy, it leaves activists and their contacts open to persecution by authorities.

Facebook has agreed to make worldwide changes to its privacy policy as a result of negotiations with Canada's privacy commissioner.

Perhaps he was tired of receiving my status updates or perhaps he didn’t want me to view photos from his personal life. Whatever the reason for ending our Facebook friendship, I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy.

On March 31, there will be a City Hall hearing on the surveillance cameras that have been installed in Somerville. One camera is in operation on top of the SCAT building in Union Square. Where are the others? We aren’t sure, because they were installed without any notification to Somerville residents.

Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like

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