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How Rapleaf is eroding our privacy on the Web

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 · 12:55 AM

WSJ: many Facebook apps transmit user IDs to...

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 · 11:12 PM

New Facebook Groups Considered Somewhat Harmful

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 · 10:55 AM

New Facebook Groups Considered Harmful

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 · 10:06 AM

Taintdroid catches Android apps that leak private user data

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 · 12:47 PM

Is Twitters plan to log all clicks a privacy loss?

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 · 9:12 AM

Usability determines password policy

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 · 11:16 AM

An ontology of social media data for better privacy policies

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 · 2:25 PM

Apple Safari Can Expose Your Private Data

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 · 10:29 PM

Speed Up Your Web Access With Namebench

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 · 6:50 PM

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