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Privacy Net – June 23, 2010
Survey SAYS – teens don’t care about privacy…or perhaps don’t recognize it is the real implication [USA Today] “FTC says current privacy laws aren’t working”…gee, what tipped you off? [CNET] And...
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Privacy Net – September 2, 2010
Heretofore, Twitter hasn’t really had any privacy troubles, unlike it’s other social networking behemoth friend, Facebook. But, with the service planning to record all of the links you click, there...
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Privacy Net – September 10, 2010
Well, it actually happened. A “burglary ring” in New Hampshire actually used peoples’ Facebook Places check-ins to know when those people weren’t going to be home, so that they could rob the peoples’...
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Privacy Net – October 19, 2010
A new study from TRUSTe shows that 80% of parents and 78% of teens think their information is protected on social networks…although it also shows that 68% of teens have accepted a friend request from...
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Privacy Net – October 27, 2010
Google’s global privacy counsel said he is surprised by how few users choose to control what ads they see from Google. At some point in the last year, Google gave users just such an ability, but...
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Privacy Net – November 5, 2010
So, in an effort to educate/warn other Starbucks internet browsers about Firesheep’s potential to allow others access to users’ personal information, one NYC programmer actually used the Firefox...
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Privacy Net – November 8, 2010
In case you’re curious – here’s what blurred-out German homes look like in German Google Street View (above, and more info at link) [CNET] For those of you worried about the Firefox extension,...
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Privacy Net – November 9, 2010
Rockmelt is a new and innovative web browser that weaves social networking right into it, which might have some privacy implications if its founders planned on monetizing it through marketing ads...
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Privacy Net – February 3, 2011
We’ve mentioned flash cookies in the past, and particularly their ability to “regenerate” even when users delete their browser cookies. But the results of a new recent report suggest that this ability...
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Privacy Net – March 8, 2011
Most often when we mention specific companies in conjunction with privacy issues, it has been the usual suspects – Google and Facebook. But another major digital US company – Amazon – has found itself...
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State of the Union 2014: Heavy on Civility, Light on Civil Liberties
President Barack Obama delivers a previous State of the Union. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) President Obama delivered his sixth State of the Union address last night, in a speech that focused heavily on...
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