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This time of year many users may be tempted to turn to online dating sites to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with. Unfortunately, many internauts are not aware of the privacy and security risks some of these websites expose them to.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) made a list of factors that sh... |
14 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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There are very few people in the world that haven’t used at least once Daemon Tools to mount image files when playing games or installing applications, but few know that the latest variant of the software comes with a service that monitors the user’s activity and records information such as the .iso file&... |
13 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility came forward with a press statement to admit that they may have exposed some of their customers to potentially malicious operations after mistakenly re-selling 100 Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi tablets that still contained the data left on them by previous owners.
In a mistake they call a “refurbishmen... |
6 February 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Google is finding itself in need of defending once again. Its privacy policy changes have created a lot of stir and, much like competitors trying to latch onto the confusion for their own gain, politicians too feel they can score an easy point or two with their voters if they sound "worried" about Google's plann... |
3 February 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the most used browser on Windwos 7 in the United States, and is aspiring for the worldwide title as well.
This is so mainly due to the great choices it provides users with when it comes to speed, security and reliability. Moreover, it also focuses on keeping users’ data private w... |
3 February 2012
09:16 GMT |
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It’s not only about the new privacy policy, Microsoft says. In fact, they continue, Google is not offering you too many choices to keep your stuff to yourself. Emails sent and received from Gmail are no longer personal, as they should be. The Redmond-based software giant claims that emails are no longer priva... |
3 February 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Google's updated privacy policy is just the latest thing that has gone wrong for Google in the past month. The company is clearly not having a great start of the new year.
The problem with the privacy policy change is that it came at the worst possible time, when it was already being criticized for Search Plus ... |
2 February 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Google finds itself having to explain its privacy policy changes, mostly to people who haven't bothered to read either the old privacy policies, all 70 of them, or the new one, but are shocked and outraged nonetheless.
Several US Congress members, some with a long record of grandstanding, have all taken issue t... |
27 January 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier O2 UK has just announced that it has managed to resolve a security issue that might have affected the privacy of its users.
Previous reports suggested that O2 UK’s mobile phone numbers were being exposed to websites as users browsed the Internet.
O2 has just confirmed that things were ... |
25 January 2012
10:59 GMT |
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Google unveiled a revamped and unified privacy policy. The big change is that data is now common across Google services, all of them, Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and so on. This was not the case so far, there was some sharing of data, but most things remained siloed in the product they originated from.
Th... |
25 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier O2 UK has been found to send users’ mobile numbers to all of the websites they are visiting on their handsets. There are millions of users on O2’s mobile network, and all of their numbers are delivered to web sites when they access the web from their mobile devices. Lewis Peckove... |
25 January 2012
06:46 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is making some big changes to its privacy policies and Terms of Service across all of its products. The changes will go into effect starting March 1st, but Google posted the new privacy policies for everyone to look over them before they go live. The major change, and it is a big one, is... |
25 January 2012
06:37 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new flavor of its Internet Explorer browser in Windows 8, namely IE10, but is also set to deliver enhancements to the already available versions of the application.
One of the focuses of the current versions of Internet Explorer is to enhance the security. And by securi... |
24 January 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Mozilla has always been more than Firefox, but the organization is about to spread out even more this year. Mozilla is working on several things that should make the web better for users, but they are not strictly related to Firefox.
What's more, they mean that the organization will be venturing into new thin... |
16 January 2012
08:11 GMT |
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A recent report published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the organization’s official website reveals that the National Operations Center (NOC) actively monitors certain websites looking for things that may concern national security, hacking operations and nuclear threats.
The “Publicly A... |
12 January 2012
10:14 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) analyzed the preview version of the latest AOL Instant Messenger and concluded that users should not install it due to some serious privacy concerns it raised.
The first issue is that conversation logs are stored by default and secondly, all private instant messages are scann... |
5 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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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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