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Facebook made an announcement on the Facebook Security page that a bug has affected approximately 6 million Facebook users. This bug allowed user's email and/or phone number to be accessed by people who “either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them”. From the Facebook post: We've concluded that approximately 6 million Facebook users had email
Imagine that you visited a porn site, and when you did your user profile was immediately posted to the site, and every umm article you viewed. While this is extreme, we now have a website doing exactly that. Will the World Wide Web become a place of absolutely no privacy and your every action bared to the world to see.
You don’t have to click around too much to find advice on how to protect your anonymity on the Internet. Finding good advice that isn’t simply fear-laden jibber-jabber or link bait designed to get you to pay for an identity protection service is a bit more difficult. Slashgeek.net posted a brief, but realistic and practical, piece on maintaining anonymity while
The Internets are quietly humming with the recent realization that Apple is, uh, absorbing your “personal” data if you use Siri – the voice-activated personal assistant (of sorts) that lives in the iPhone 4S (launched in October 2011). What does that mean, precisely? Well, according to information disseminated by the ACLU, Apple’s privacy policy in relation to the Siri software
As lawmakers across the globe attempt to pin down a wriggling Internet with rules aimed at stemming file sharing between users (but, curiously, increasing file sharing between governments and corporations), among other things, there appears to be a growing movement towards purchased privacy by the Internet community – particularly the younger folks. TorrentFreak shared a study this week done by
Employers who are asking their current employees, or potential applicants, for their Facebook passwords need to watch out. Facebook has heard about this nasty practice, and is not the least bit pleased about it. An official statement was released by Erin Egan, the Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook Policy. I found it to be an interesting read. The statement points
iTwin is billed as an "infinite capacity thumb drive" but this sells the device short - it's much more than this. Andy finds out what its capable of from Akash at CES Showstoppers. The basic premise of iTwin is a pair of USB devices, one of which goes in your work desktop, the other in your home (or laptop) computer.