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LegalIn recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users’ privacy by making public too much of their personal information. Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website. [...]
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CAUTION! A new virus email was found!
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Flash 10.3 Finally Brings Control Panel
The last twelve months have been turbulent for the Adobe Flash Player. After spending years at a languid development pace Flash 10.0 was originally released in 2008, several things happened to push it forward.For starters, most major Web browsers have been pushing support of the new HTML 5 standard, which seeks to replace many of [...]
Dangers of online tracing
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Germany – Success on Facebook’s Privacy Policy
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RockMelt – Meet the new browser
Hello Interwebs! The rumors are true… starting today, we’re offering access to an early version of RockMelt, a new browser designed around you and how you use the Web. RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: [...]
Facebook defends privacy breach
A selection of Facebook apps, including Farmville and Mafia Wars, have been found to be “inadvertently” sharing members’ data with advertisers, breaching the site’s privacy code. The Wall Street Journal first discovered the breach and found a number of apps, including some of the most popular games, were sending Facebook user identities (UIDs) to advertisers [...]
1 in 5 Android Apps Pose Potential Privacy Threat
Mobile security company SMobile has looked into the potential privacy and security issues in more than 48,000 apps in the Android Market. The company’s findings are alarming for Android owners, since approximately 20% of Android apps request permission to access private or sensitive information. SMobile’s findings shed new light on Apple’s tight grip over its [...]
US-States ally against Google’s data collection madness.
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Apple Hits Users With Behavioral Ads – Changes privacy policy, offers new opt-out option
Changes privacy policy, offers new opt-out option 11:52AM Tuesday Jun 22 2010 by Karl Bode Tipped by Z80A Back in May we noted how there’s a lot of money to be made by carriers in selling your personal location data — and they’re only just starting to figure out how to cash in on it. [...]
iPhone OS 3.1 has more than 60 vulnerabilities
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Tiiws.com’s famous web design back online again
Finally – after a 3 years’ break – is Tiiws.com’s famous web design back online again. Tiiws.com specializes in web design for micro, mini and small business as well as private individuals, who prefer to present their product, services or themselves with professionally designed websites rather than have it done “by their friend/son/daughter, who also [...]
Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net
EFF Research Shows More Than 8 in 10 Browsers Have Unique, Trackable Signatures. San Francisco – New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet. The findings were [...]
Microsoft unveils new look for Windows Live Hotmail
* Tue, 18 May 2010 | Web User The new-look Windows Live Hotmail will let you edit Office documents within your browser, even if the PC you are using doesn’t have Office installed. Microsoft is to give its webmail client Windows Live Hotmail a makeover this summer, the company has announced. New features including Windows [...]
Google Apologizes for Snaring Wi-Fi Data
Google has issued an apology for inadvertently collecting the contents of users’ Web transmissions as part of its Street View project, which has come under fire from European data-collection authorities alarmed at the privacy implications of the effort. To capture a curbside view of an ever-expanding number of world cities, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been [...]
Google Android – spying at your cell phone
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Microsoft Office Docs for Facebook
Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook provides the best possible document service for the Facebook environment. Seamless integration with Facebook means that the service is all about sharing your documents. Finally docs can be friendly too! Since launching [...]
Games: Final Fantasy 13
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Amazon.com – Wish List – U.S. only
What is Universal Wish List? Universal Wish List allows you to add products from any website to your Amazon Wish List with one simple click, making it easier than ever to keep track of all the gifts you wish for, all in one place. Getting Started It’s easy! Simply add the Universal Wish List button [...]
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