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Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part One)

By JHS 193 days ago from http://www.jhsiess.com

How sure are you that your online activities will not jeopardize your current life circumstances, including your employment, or your future prospectives for success? In this series of articles, prudent online practices are discussed. First topic: The selection of an appropriate email address for business and professional use

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Tags: blogging writing privacy online identity


Big Brother In America May Already Be Here

By pumpkinjumper 209 days ago from http://www.bauer-power.net

You often hear complaints in America about the extensive camera system used in the UK to keep an eye on its citizens. Some Americans feel that it is a blatant violation of privacy. Some Brits feel the same way too. Others think that if you aren't doing anything wrong in the first place you shouldn't worry about it. Either way

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Tags: big brother camera cameras cctv digital intelligence monitoring privacy security security camera spy spying surveillance systems video


Achieving true privacy

By robojiannis 207 days ago from http://changemod.com

A conference in the annual exhibition "Transmediale" in Berlin brought up some very interesting issues about online privacy: Fistly, the definition of privacy was discussed. We all take the term and its connotations for granted, but it surely isn't so. Secondly the subject of true, absolute privacy. How can it be ach

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Tags: internet privacy security web


How to protect your privacy online

By robojiannis 213 days ago from http://changemod.com

Couple of days ago was the International Privacy Day. Although studies have shown, that people are getting more concerned about their privacy online, they also sometimes don't know what to do about it.

In this post the major privacy harms are expressed along with 6 simple ways to increase your privacy online. From enc

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Tags: privacy internet security protection safety


Users 1 vs Facebook 0 | TeqEdge Blog

By shamim316 273 days ago from http://blog.teqedge.com

Highly popular social networking site Facebook has bowed to consumer pressure and removed most of the controversial aspects from its Beacon program. For those of you who do not know Beacon, it is a new information sharing functionality that Facebook recently released. This new program shared users’ online buying habits with other sites which

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Tags: facebook consumer privacy


Facebook Advertisers Use Your Pictures For Selling Products

By shamim316 239 days ago from http://blog.teqedge.com

Facebook is dancing on a slippery slope for the past few weeks. It started off with Beacon – a feature in Facebook which broadcasts users buying habits and trends to his/her friends. Wired magazine reports that a new feature called SocialAds is allowing companies and applications to use users’ profile pictures for media and publicity campaign

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Tags: facebook privacy facebook privacy social ads facebook beacon beacon facebook social ads


Adobe Is Spying On Creative Suite 3 Users

By shamim316 245 days ago from http://blog.teqedge.com

If you think Adobe is spying on you, you are correct. Adobe is collecting data on How you use Adobe products via a behavioral analytics firm called Omniture. UneasySilence has posted a screenshot of Adobe program trying to connect to the mother-ship. Omniture has tried to conceal this “user tracking”.

Check out the screenshot and more at

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Tags: adobe cs3 creative suite adobe cs3 omniture privacy sniffer


Our Online Content: Public or Private?

By j2fi 178 days ago from http://www.j2fi.net

There’s a bit of a debate going on right now about material taken from personal profiles being used by the press and advertising agencies in, what some people are calling, an act of “digital door-stepping.” So this begs the question: if we post something online, does it mean that anyone can see it and use that content? Or, are

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Tags: online content privacy press freedom


Forums - You’re not as safe as you think | Cranky.nu

By i.am.cranky 159 days ago from http://cranky.nu

Forums is a big part of the Internet. almost every one is a member of one or many. Some are just lurkers whilst others are more participating. But it’s always important to remember that being a member of a forum might endanger your privacy and security.

This does not mean there’s anything wrong with the forum script you’re u

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Tags: web programming forums safety security privacy hacking


Will you let someone listen to your phone calls? : Cell Phone / Mobile Advertising

By Krishnan 236 days ago from http://www.cellphone-advertising.com

Will you let someone listen to your phone calls? How does the idea of having someone listen to your phone calls sound to you? If you say yes, check out this post. If you say no, check out this post right now. If you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, then you gotta check out this post too.

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Tags: phone calls cellphone advertising cellphone phone bills privacy adverts


What if Google were CIA?

By robojiannis 177 days ago from http://changemod.com

What if Google were CIA? or Microsoft? Would we react similarly to their projects as we do now?
Their relatively new project "Google Street View" is playing with the concepts of privacy, security, control and surveillance.
Most of us dislike it when we see thousands of CCTV cameras all over the streets, but we don't react

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Tags: blogging privacy security panopticon google surveillance


NSA Wants To Cripple Online Privacy Once And For All

By shamim316 224 days ago from http://blog.teqedge.com

NSA under the façade of protecting the nation wants to sift through the entirety of the internet to fight terrorism. According to a scathing Wired report America’s top spy, Michael McConnell, is requesting access to any and all web-pages, emails, instant messages, pictures and anything that might be found on the internet. All of this without

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Tags: privacy nsa privacy wired privacy wsj privacy online privacy protection online internet privacy


Facebook User-Data Gathering Goes Viral

By 0boy 209 days ago from http://soshable.com

Many people have been critical of Facebook lately, specifically their attempts to monetize the product.  User data is being collected and used in behavioral targeted marketing.  While to some, this is no big deal, many see severe breaches in privacy that can arise from this practice.  When they opened up their li

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Tags: facebook social networks user data privacy