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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
In the United States we are supposed to have certain rights under the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
For the most part I don't find that Google ads are such a bad thing. They are relatively unobtrusive and they are generally based on such information as location and web history. Let's leave alone the privacy implications of those two facts and look more at where I recently noticed that it falls short - although, I confess that this will lead
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
Feeling a 100% better and it is time to have a serious discussion about privacy and actions in the internet and public space. Looking for your feedback in a big way on these issues. Lots of great tech stories to share with you tonight as well. Download the Audio Show File Links to all the articles talked about in this Podcast