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The controversial company Carrier IQ issued a report to further explain how they do business and how their software really works. It seems as they discovered a bug in a diagnostic profile that measures radio-network-to-mobile device signaling, which helps network operators determine why calls get dropped. In uniq... |
14 December 2011
04:52 GMT |
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All the world had access to the private pictures of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, after a post on a bodybuilding forum revealed to the social network’s customers how they can see the private photographs of a member without being in their contact list.
The Facebook feature that allowed users to re... |
7 December 2011
05:17 GMT |
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A Brazilian security researcher set up an experiment to prove that he can get anyone to accept a Facebook friend request in a matter of hours, showing how privacy is still a major issue when it comes to social networking website.
According to Psyzone, Nelson Novaes, a researcher in the field of online security and b... |
30 November 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Online companies may be playing fast and loose with user privacy, but it seems that this may finally be coming to an end. The US Federal Trade Commission is said to be close to reaching a settlement with Facebook which would have the social network amend some of its user privacy practices and also submit to audits fr... |
11 November 2011
04:20 GMT |
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A new report from analysis firm EEDAR shows that 51 percent of those who own a PlayStation 3 or a Xbox 360 home gaming console have chosen to purchase a piece of downloadable content over the last twelve month period.The figure was 40 percent at the same time during last year and at only 34% when the analysis firm to... |
20 October 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Amazon's innovative Silk browser, exclusive to the Kindle Fire tablet, is built on a pretty impressive technology, but this technology also poses some privacy concerns that some have been quick to raise, despite the device and browser not being available yet.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been able... |
19 October 2011
05:20 GMT |
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A study made by Stanford Law School reveals that the websites we trust and visit each day, implement all sorts of mechanisms that automatically transmit web advertisers our names, user IDs and email addresses.
185 websites were tested in the research and the results show 113 of them leaked at least a username to a... |
12 October 2011
05:31 GMT |
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It's been a few weeks since Facebook's f8 conference and the launch of the upgraded Open Graph which includes so-called "frictionless sharing," i.e. automatic sharing of activity with friends, mostly via the newly-launched Facebook Ticker.
So far, the apps that have implemented the feature are mostly mus... |
10 October 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Google is constantly pushing small changes and updates to Google+, trying to maintain momentum and keep existing and new users happy. One of the big focuses with Google+ has been on privacy and this continues to be so.
Google has now made a couple of changes to the way users can control how their posts are seen an... |
5 October 2011
05:32 GMT |
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With GPS sensors built into everything and more and more services, websites and apps taking advantage of location data, a big number of innovative, or at least fun, services have surfaced. But with location data so easily attainable comes a greater need for privacy precautions.
A lot of people are sensitive about ... |
20 September 2011
06:31 GMT |
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With European privacy regulators strong-arming it no doubt, Google has unveiled plans for a new program that would enable WiFi access point owners, i.e. anyone with a router, to opt out of Google's location provider services. Google, as do all other location providers, rely on GPS, cell phone towers and WiFi ro... |
13 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Google is taking it one small step at a time with Google+, like it does with much of its products. Since the social network launched, there have been several enhancements and additions.
One of the key focuses of Google+ has been privacy and the site is now introducing a new option that should come in very handy fo... |
9 September 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Flickr has debuted a really interesting privacy feature for geotagged photos. Yes, it's hard to be believe that anything having to do with both geotagging and privacy can be interesting, but Flickr has done it. It calls it geofencing and the feature, essentially, sets different location privacy settings for phot... |
30 August 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google is making it easier to avoid people on Google+ without taking too drastic options, such as blocking them altogether, with the new Ignore option. This is more or less a 'mute' option, you won't get any more notifications from that user, but it won't cut off all communications.
"We want to... |
26 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Facebook has made several changes to its privacy controls, improving privacy on the social network overall, but still not enough according to some security experts.A few days ago, Facebook announced new privacy-oriented features. These include inline controls that allow users to define who can view thei status update... |
24 August 2011
13:42 GMT |
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Facebook announced quite a lot of changes to its privacy controls and default behavior. While it borrowed quite a lot of good ideas from Google+ for the inline privacy settings, either that or perhaps "great minds think alike," it also introduced better control over tags, something users have been asking for for ages... |
24 August 2011
08:21 GMT |
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If a data protection official in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has his way, the Facebook Like button will be removed by any website from that state, or face the risk of a 50,000 Euro fine.
Apparently, the Like button is "illegally" being used to send back user information to US servers. Likewise, it is "i... |
22 August 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Several erroneous reports about Facebook publicly sharing people's phone numbers have recently surfaced and have helped remind social gamers that they might be sharing their info with unknown individuals.Some users have recently discovered that by going to 'Account' -> 'Edit friends' -&#... |
16 August 2011
00:21 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to controversy issues. One of the latest has been around its facial recognition feature, which it rolled out in Europe in the last few months. The feature caused a lot of outcry, even though it's not really a privacy violation.
Germany's privacy regulator begs to differ though, t... |
4 August 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Google promised to start making some changes to Google+, to address some of the main concerns, and it has already started to do so. The company has said that it will address two issues that users have pointed out.
First, users will be able to set their gender option to private, so only a few users or no one will b... |
13 July 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Dropbox has had to update the updated Terms of Service it revealed last week, to make it even clearer that Dropbox does not own your files and won't share them with anyone you don't want to.
A lot of controversy, mostly unwarranted, was stirred last week when users misread the updated and clearer ToS an... |
7 July 2011
09:01 GMT |
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One big emphasis with Google+ is on privacy. The company is adamant in not repeating the mistakes it made before, with Google Buzz for example, and also is also trying to create an image for the new social network as a place that puts privacy first, as opposed to Facebook, of course.
For the most part, it worked; ... |
30 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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European Union's new legislation that forces websites to ask users for permission before storing cookies on their computers is likely to cause serious traffic losses for websites that conform to the new provisions.EU Telecoms Reform Directive (TRD), commonly referred to as the cookie law, was supposed to come in... |
23 June 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Google has added an interesting new tool to its Account Dashboard which is designed to give users a clearer picture of what information about them is found online and how Google may learn about it. That sounds like a pretty good idea, but, in practice, the feature leaves somewhat to be desired."Your online identity i... |
16 June 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Despite Facebook acknowledging that it should have communicated the fact that its face recognition technology was now being rolled out internationally and despite the feature not being such a big privacy concern, the company is getting in trouble with privacy regulators in Europe.The Article 29 Data Protection Workin... |
9 June 2011
07:21 GMT |
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The web is all abuzz about the latest Facebook privacy 'mishap' and is discussing all of the implications, or lack thereof, of Facebook's face recognition technology. This despite the fact that the technology is six months old and that it's not really that big of a deal in the first place.Back in ... |
8 June 2011
07:59 GMT |
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While there's been plenty of talk and debate about online privacy, there haven't really been too many legal repercussions. And perhaps for good reason, a lawsuit [PDF] brought against Facebook accusing it of privacy violations, wiretapping and even breach of contract, was severely weakened as the judge... |
16 May 2011
10:35 GMT |
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Anything that touches on online privacy is sure to get a lot of attention and anything that "reveals" how some big company is abusing your private data is sure to cause a stir. Google is a popular target these days and, in the aftermath of the whole Apple iPhone location tracking thing, its Android mobile operating s... |
9 May 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Google is still feeling the fallout from the failed Buzz launch. The privacy issues that arose after Buzz was pushed on Gmail users gave Google a lot of headaches, but it also got it a federal investigation. That investigation is now over as Google and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have reached an agreement.T... |
30 March 2011
12:10 GMT |
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Social networks and other websites could be facing much tougher privacy laws in the EU. The data protection laws may get an overhaul to make them more relevant to today's world and may especially target social networks and advertising companies.Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner, reiterated her ... |
17 March 2011
12:23 GMT |
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Indian intelligence agencies are pressing the country's telecommunications department for wider data retention regulations that would force Internet service providers to store more information about communications.According to the Times of India, the Department of Telecom (DoT) is also being asked to increase th... |
1 March 2011
03:18 GMT |
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Last week, Google started rolling out the revamped navigation toolbar which sits on top of many Google products. One of the changes in the new toolbar is the use of the account's name rather than the email address. This change could be linked to the upcoming Google +1 "social layer," but Google is now clarifying... |
25 February 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Mozilla's Do Not Track proposal, to enable users to opt-out of targeted advertising and behavioral tracking, has already made it in the latest Firefox 4.0 Beta 11. It's only been a couple of weeks since Mozilla proposed this approach and it seems like it didn't wait around for too much feedback, the fe... |
9 February 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Facebook has reached an agreement with German privacy regulators over the use of Friend Finder, a tool which enables users to send the people in their email address books invitations to join Facebook. The move has been heavily criticized in privacy-conscious Germany and Facebook was asked to amend its practices. Face... |
24 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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In a rare move, Facebook is backing off and has announced that it will be disabling a new API feature which enabled developers to ask for access to users' private data. Facebook will be redesigning the feature in order to make it clearer for users what they are sharing, due to the sensitive nature of the informa... |
18 January 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Facebook doesn't really have a record of worrying about privacy issues. It's right to take this approach some times, users don't always know 'what's best' for them. Other times, it seems it's taking it one step too far, though it hasn't really affected the site so far. The late... |
17 January 2011
10:28 GMT |
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PortableApps.com (PA.c) has released a new portable application called "Private Browsing" which provides a Firefox instance with several privacy-oriented extensions, settings and customizations.Private Browsing is not a complete re-packaging of the popular open source browser, but rather a specially-designed profile ... |
8 January 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Online privacy is always a 'popular' topic and, while people's expectations may change over time as Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg claims, people do care about their privacy even on the web. However, while some sites play fair and generally don't misuse your data, there is no simple way o... |
28 December 2010
11:06 GMT |
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The always connected nature of most modern gaming experiences, regardless of the hardware platform used and of the publisher which sells the game, has lead to a lot of concerns about privacy and about how the gamer's personal data could be used inappropriately by the companies which have access to it.The latest ... |
23 December 2010
01:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled a surprise Internet Explorer 9 feature which it will offer for testing to the public with the Release Candidate (RC) Build of the browser, planned for delivery in early 2011. IE9 will be epitome of browser choice and control as far as protecting user privacy goes. Starting with IE9 RC and cont... |
7 December 2010
13:59 GMT |
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Recently Steam ran another round of lightning price cuts for a variety of games, allowing gamers to get their hands on stuff like Alpha Protocol, a rather recent title, for as low as 7.50 dollars and throwing in some special deals for groups of more players, built around the idea of Thanksgiving. All in all it seeme... |
4 December 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Facebook introduced another one of those features that people are either going to love or going to hate. Facebook is now rolling out Friendship Pages which will display all the already visible interactions between two friends. This could be a great way to take a trip down memory lane, but it will also neatly put on d... |
29 October 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The search referrer issue is popping up again thanks to a class action lawsuit that seeks to block Google from sending referrer data to other websites. The lawsuit claims that this practice is illegal and it even goes against Google's own privacy policy. "A class action lawsuit filed yesterday challenges Google&... |
27 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Several of Facebook's most popular applications, including the social game phenomenon which is FarmVille, are being accused of breaking the privacy rules of the social network by sending their users' personal information to ad companies.Facebook, even though it is the biggest social network in the world, is... |
19 October 2010
17:11 GMT |
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Two men have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the company of knowingly violating its privacy policy by sharing personally-identifiable information with advertisers.The Facebook platform enjoys a great success with advertising company, because it allows them to serve highly targeted ads to users, based on ag... |
15 October 2010
02:20 GMT |
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Facebook introduced three new features which go a long way with helping privacy-concerned users feel more at ease in their activity on the social network.Facebook has long been seen as a privacy risk due to the lack of proper and easy to understand controls and its general "opt-out" mentality of sharing everything un... |
7 October 2010
07:17 GMT |
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Facebook has just unveiled the brand-new Groups feature which promises to change the way most people use the social network. But it also introduced a crucial new feature for those seeking for more openness from the social network, the possibility to export and download much of the data you've added to Facebook. ... |
7 October 2010
06:02 GMT |
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Along with the big new feature, the revamped Facebook groups, the social network also unveiled a couple of new things that should really come in handy. One is the new Application Settings dashboard which enables you to view all the apps that have access to your data and their activity. "Today, we announced several ch... |
7 October 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Google is continuing to have trouble the Czech Republic. Data privacy officials in the country have expressed 'concerns' about the service and previously banned Google from shooting more images, while an opinion is formulated. Now, according to The Guardian, Igor Nemec, chairman of the Czech privacy watchdo... |
24 September 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Google's Street View service has been especially controversial in Germany, a country with some of the toughest privacy laws in the world. Currently, Google is allowing Germans to have their houses removed from Street View once the service is launched later this year. But, after, reportedly, a huge number of peop... |
20 September 2010
09:40 GMT |
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