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Tech Companies: Government ‘Practices Need to be Reformed’
Tech companies, including Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), wrote to the government in an open letter recently on the need for surveillance...
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Are U.S. Tech Companies Just as Guilty as the NSA?
Technology companies like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), and others have speaking with increasing volume regarding government invasion into their...
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Is Facebook Reading Your ‘Private’ Messages?
A new lawsuit accuses Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) of screening the “private” messages sent through the social network without user consent, potentially violating Facebook users’ privacy rights. According to...
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Facebook Trashes Sponsored Stories
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is getting rid of a controversial ad feature that has drawn the ire of privacy watchdogs and forced the social media site to pay a $20 million settlement last summer. In a message...
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Facebook Poke Application: A Sexting Fail
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/goiabarea/ Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), as a publicly traded company, has attempted to serve as all things to all people. Facebook leads an awkward mating dance between a...
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Here’s the Reason Indexeus Wanted $1 Each from Hackers
Source: Thinkstock Indexeus temporarily tilted the odds in its favor – the search engine targeted hackers by listing their passwords and other information in its search results. The service wanted a...
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Online Privacy Takes a Back Seat to Convenience
Source: Thinkstock A little while back, a report released by the Ponemon Institute revealed that data breaches in which consumer information was lost or stolen are much more prevalent than many people...
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How Will Tech Companies Address Issues of Student Privacy?
Major tech companies like Apple and Google have signed a privacy pledge that holds the firms to key data privacy tenets, including promises not to sell student information, not to use behaviorally...
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Facebook Will Find You, Even If You Don’t Use It
Mark Zuckerberg | Source: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Many people choose not to use Facebook. It’s invasive, people over share, and some users have found that it simply stresses them out, so they...
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How Much Will People Pay For Your Stolen Personal Information?
Source: iStock Even though the number of security hacks and data breaches have been growing over the past several years with millions of consumers affected, you might still choose to think that your...
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Google Maps’ Latest Feature: Why You Should Turn it OFF
Source: Google-latlong.blogspot.com If you use Google Now on your smartphone, you’re probably aware of the fact that Google tracks your location to provide you with useful information. But what you...
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How the New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard Isn’t Quite Enough
Source: Eff.org If you’re serious about protecting your privacy online, you probably already know that unless you go to some pretty extreme lengths, at least some of your web activity is being tracked...
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4 Signs Your Boss Is Spying on You
Source: iStock Chances are, your boss is keeping an eye on you. Forty-three percent of companies actively monitor employee emails, according to the American Management Association (AMA), and roughly...
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5 Things You Should Never Search on Google
Source: Google.com If you use Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine that records your IP address and search terms, there are some things — many things, it turns out — that you really...
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What Privacy Do You Really Have Online?
Source: iStock Most people consider privacy a basic right, and if they think deeply enough about it, are in favor of keeping some parts of their lives and the data they generate away from prying eyes....
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Do Siri or Amazon Echo Undermine Your Privacy?
Source: Amazon If you have misgivings about permitting the internet-connected devices in your home to listen in on what you and your roommates and family are doing, then you might feel like you’re...
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7 Scary Reasons You Shouldn’t Use Siri or Google Assistant
Voice assistants are clearly here to stay. In the years since Siri first landed on the iPhone, we’ve all gotten used to the idea of asking a piece of artificial intelligence for help. We love talking...
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