RapLeaf knows what you did last summer. The Wall Street Journal continues its exploration of how our privacy is eroding on the Web in new article by Emily Steel — A Web Pioneer Profiles Users...
October 25, 2010
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Full Title: WSJ: many Facebook apps transmit user IDs to advertising and tracking companies This Wall Street Journal article says that many of the most popular of the 550,000 Facebook apps (!)...
October 17, 2010
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11:12 PM
I always think of things I should have added in the hour after making a post. Sigh. Here goes… The situation is perhaps not so different from mailing lists, Google groups or any number of...
October 7, 2010
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10:55 AM
Facebook has rolled out a new version of groups announced on the Facebook blog. “Until now, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been...
October 7, 2010
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10:06 AM
Ars Technica has an an article on bad Android apps, Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers. “The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University,...
September 30, 2010
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12:47 PM
Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter: “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to...
September 2, 2010
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9:12 AM
Some online sites let you use any old five-character strong as your password for as long as you like. Others force you to pick a new password every six months and it has to match a complicated...
August 16, 2010
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Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us...
August 15, 2010
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2:25 PM
Apple’s Safari browser has a privacy vulnerability allowing web sites you visit to extract your personal information (e.g., name, address, phone number) from your computer’s address book. The fix...
July 22, 2010
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10:29 PM
Here’s a quick trick that could significantly speed up your Web surfing. Download and run the open source namebench on your computer. It does a thorough test of your current DNS servers and some...
June 5, 2010
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