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privacy
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AWESOME: Send Emails That Self-Destruct After Reading
18 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We all feel a little bit uneasy about our private emails being stashed and archived in someones inbox forever. Surely when we invented digital mail, we could have thought ahead and prevented it? Anyway, we didn’t – but now someone has created a service that will help with this.
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Google Wants To Track You In The Real World – This Is How
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The whole point of online tech companies monitoring us is to try and get an idea of what we’re doing in real life. Thankfully, up until now they could only use our online footprints to try figure out what we were doing in reality. Now, though, Google is telling advertisers that they have a way of tracking us in real life, all the time.
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Facebook Will Be Tracking Your Cursor Movements On The Screen
31 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It seems like the more we worry about being monitored – the more we’re being monitored, especially on social media. If you want to use it – expect them to know everything. Facebook in particular is going the extra mile to monitor our precise activities on their platform. Sources say that they may be considering gathering data from even our most minute mouse-movements.
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Soon Your Face Will Appear In Google Results
14 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, so you thought your name, face and fact that you “liked” the coffee at that place down the road was personal, private information? Sorry to say but, you’re wrong. At least in Google’s eyes that is…
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‘Just Delete Me’ Tells You How Hard It Will Be To Delete Yourself From Any Internet Service
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After you’ve signed up, most online services keep your information indefinitely, and make it nearly impossible for you to remove it. And it’s more common than you think for services to require you to call them to delete you off their database. Wouldn’t it be helpful if you found that kind of stuff out before you sign up?
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Hack My Life – Just How Vulnerable Are You? [INFOGRAPHIC]
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
With so much of our private information online, and with more and more of our personal devices connected to the net, the likelihood of our being hacked increases on an almost daily basis. And with that in mind, this infographic hits us with a big truth stick. You need to know just how hackable your life really is.
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Guess Whose House Was Blurred Out By Google Street View? [PIC]
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Street View does not think very highly of Ariel Castro, and why should they? Castro kidnapped three women and kept them as prisoners at 2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland for over 10 years.
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How To Protect Your Profile Against Facebook’s Invasive New “Graph Search”
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Graph Search feature on Facebook was made available to the masses on 8 July 2013. The feature is a search tool that enables the user to search for information on the popular social networking site.
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Don’t Get Murdered By The CIA – Stealth Clothing Makes You Virtually Undetectable To Drones [PICS]
05 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The use of drones are increasing worldwide, decreasing our level of privacy. But Adam Harvey has a wearable solution that could make you go undetected by unmanned aircrafts.
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Google Glass Hype Is Dwindling – Fears Of Big Brother Are Growing
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Glass is a potentially revolutionary technology that could fundamentally shift the way that humans interact with their environment, and dramatically improve productivity. But the product also requires the user, and anyone who comes into contact with the user, to be prepared to have the boundaries of their privacy stripped away. Google Glass will in […]
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Privacy May Not Be A Legal Right For Much Longer
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a recent study, researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University detailed how Facebook erodes users’ privacy. Researchers found that during the first four years, users steadily limited what personal data was visible to strangers within their school network. Yet through changes Facebook introduced to its platform in 2009 and 2010, the social network actually succeeded in reversing […]
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Google To Pay $7 Million Fine For Collecting Personal Data
13 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do no evil, right? Internet giant, Google has agreed to pay a $7 million fine for the collection of personal data without authorisation for their Street View service. Google has also agreed to destroy emails, passwords and web histories in a settlement with 38 states in the USA. The data was collected from wireless networks […]
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Now It’s Getting Weird: New Facebook App Tracks Your Location – Even When It’s Turned Off
06 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks to Mark Creeperberg and Facebook, you can now find your friends who are in the same area as you, even if their Facebook app is closed. Which is obviously a red flag for privacy. Facebook already allows you to “check in”, logging the places you’ve visited in a viewable GPS map format. According to […]
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Texas School Can Force Students To Wear Locator Chips
10 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A school in Texas, in the United Sates, of America, has been given the right to force its students to wear locator chips when they are on school property.
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Facebook Gifts Encourage Users To Expose More Private Information
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is about to start testing its new gifting platform that will allow it another go at a possible revenue stream, but there’s a small problem: exposing information like home addresses, birth dates and other aspects could pose security and privacy risks.
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Facebook Scans Your Personal Chats For Criminal Activity
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
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Coming Soon: Facebook Bank
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
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Facebook To Start Letting You Edit Your Idiotic Comments
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You know that thing where you post a comment on Facebook and immediately regret your decision? Well, Facebook sure does. Which is why they’re rolling out a comment-editing functionality over the next few days. Rest easy, people whose grammar falls apart whenever they get excited.
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Twitter Rejects Subpoena For User Data
09 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a slightly surprising move, given the extent to which Google and Facebook have been compliant in handing data over to government enquiry, Twitter filed a motion (PDF) yesterday to block a subpoena that would force the company to turn over the data of one of its users, an arrested Occupy Wall Street protestor.
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Google’s Unified Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new privacy policy – the one allowing the company to combine data from all of its sites into a single profile – officially takes effect today. The new policy collapses 70 separate policy documents from various Google services into a single unit – which also happens to make it easier for Google to know things about you.
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Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty A “Disaster” For The Internet
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The internet’s under attack again! This time by a United Nations treaty aimed at online regulation. Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned strongly against the suggested measures: “Do not give that up easily. You will regret it. You will hate it, because all that freedom, all that flexibility, you’ll find it shipped away.”
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WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Stratfor Internal Emails
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WikiLeaks is doing stuff that doesn’t involve Julian Assange’s career as a television personality – in this case leaking a cache of over 5 million internal emails from Stratfor, a “global intelligence” company. They reveal secret intelligence services provided to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, among others.
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If You Want To Delete Your Google Web History, Do It Now
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new unified privacy policy takes effect on March 1st, allowing Google to share users’ data among all of its products. This means that your entire Google Web History – everything you’ve searched for on Google, and every site you’ve visited while signed in to a Google account – will be pooled together.
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Google Would Like To Buy Your Privacy Now, Please
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
See, it turns out that Google doesn’t actually know everything about your online browsing habits. But boy, they’d sure like to! Which is why they’re rolling out two services that records users’ online activities in full, in return for Amazon gift cards or – in the sightly more intense version – hard cash.
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Google Changes Privacy Settings Across Board – Users Can’t Opt Out
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.
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Google Introduces Facial Recognition Feature
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world’s largest search engine is busy rolling out technology that can track your face. Facebook has been doing this for a while, so this sounds like Google playing catch-up, but there is a neat difference: unlike on Facebook, Google+ users get to opt-in to the facial recognition feature, instead of being automatically dragged into it.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Facebook Photos Leaked [PICS]
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
How do you like them apples? Thanks to a technical glitch, never before seen photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have leaked online. His longtime girlfriend, his dog, and Barack Obama also feature in them. A Facebook user reportedly exploited a security loophole and accessed them.
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Secret Software Is Probably Tracking Everything You Do On Your Phone
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The Carrier IQ software, installed on most modern Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones, is supposed to record some of the things phones do so manufacturers can do quality control. Except it’s also been logging everybody’s text messages, web searches, and phone calls. Which is pretty bad.
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The USA Is On “The Brink Of Armed Police Drones”
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A county north of Houston has set the trend in American drone policing by taking delivery of a set of squat, remote-controlled helicopters called ShadowHawks. These can be weaponized to fire Tasers or beanbags at people – although the manufacturer, Van Guard Industries, claims that they’re strong enough to carry a shotgun. Which is comforting.
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Liberate Your Data With Google Takeout
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hello, internet people. Google Takeout has been launched for you – a “data liberation platform” that lets users export their data from a number of Google products. It’s an importance service! If all your information is on Google without a backup, then you don’t have much control over it. Click through and learn things.
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