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Is all your Facebook info sitting on some torrent site? Don’t worry it’s legal.

Web 2.0 is pretty cool and has gone a very long way to change the Web and how we use it. Social Media for better or worse has tagged along for the ride and regardless of your ... continue

So how much do all those mobile apps care about your security? Some not so much.

As we invariably move more and more into a mobile computing world questions need to be asked about just how secure our information that we are sharing all over the place really is. The need for serious ... continue

The joke of social network privacy

I have always maintained that people are fooling themselves if they think social networks will always keep their promise to protect your personal and generated data. At some point, whether for collateral or as demographic information to ... continue

Apple Leak: OTA lockdown, FaceTime privacy breach

Right from the start I will qualify this post as being nothing more than a rumor that could very well be just an elaborate hoax since it is based on the word of a single source who ... continue

Need help through the minefield of Facebook privacy settings? There’s a tool for that.

I have had to figure out my way through more than my fair share of profile settings pages over my time on the web but I swear that the thought of trying to figure out my Facebook ... continue

Oh Facebook, how we want to believe you.

Let's be clear on one thing. The majority of users on Facebook haven't, and won't, really have notice much to do with the recent privacy brouhaha the service has been involved in. Even people who I have known ... continue

Zuckerberg please stop. You are making me want to gag.

If there is one thing you can say about Mark Zuckerberg it is that he great at the ass-kissing 'oopps we're sorry' type of PR that Facebook is becoming so well known for. His latest foray into this ... continue

The best explanation for Facebook’s messing with your privacy

With a great big hat tip to Alan Patrick at Broadstuff (along for the bill for a new keyboard that is now full of coffee) here is a great breakdown of Facebook's reasons for screwing with your ... continue

Maybe Facebook should send a bouquet of flowers to its apologists

Well if you read any kind of tech news you have probably already heard about the newest gaff committed by Facebook and other social media networks like MySpace and Twitter that was reported by the Wall Street Journal late ... continue

Why is a P.I. firm controlling a nation cellphone number registry?

Did you know that there is in the United States a single site that you can go to and search cellphone numbers and who belongs to them? Me neither, at least until I was searching for something on ... continue

Is Facebook really too big to implode?

Now before everybody goes and gets their panties in a bunch let me first say that Facebook isn't going anywhere. This isn't some OMG Facebook is going tits up type of post so chill out for a ... continue

A time line of Facebook’s ever morphing privacy issue

As Facebook moves forward with its plans to assimilate us all into their version of what the Web is there is a cacophony of voices being raised over how it is manipulating its users. Much as Google has ... continue

No Mr. Cuban Microsoft will not be buying Facebook

Why won't Microsoft be buying Facebook Mr. Cuban? Because as it marches forward in a Borg like fashion to dominate all aspects of the Web and as a result become awash in McDuck amounts of money it sees ... continue

School admin in webcam spying case invokes 5th amendment

Back in February, a story broke about the administration in a Pennsylvania school district possibly spying on students via school issued MacBooks with webcams. The FBI quickly got involved, and many people still feel the school grossly violated ... continue

[SHOCKING REPORT] At one time telcos cared about your privacy

Yes folks, as hard as it might be to believe it seems that at one time all those telecommunication companies actually put our privacy ahead of everything else - including the government busybodies. I found this copy ... continue

That office copier – it’s a data goldmine

See that fancy photo-copier over in the corner of your office. Yes that innocuous paper spitting machine that we all use daily to make copies of everything from confidential memos to last month's expense report. Did you know that ... continue

The Great Privacy Con of Social Media and Web 2.0

I've been going through some of the posts to come out of this year's SXSW conference that had anything to do with the issue of privacy; especially after Danah Boyd's great keynote speech. It is reassuring to ... continue

Busted: Porn detection stick does what it says on the tin

While roughly half of humans will tell you they were already born with a porn detection stick, a company is marketing a device that purports to offer a “robust illicit image detection device designed to protect your ... continue

Misdirected Facebook messages to be read at NYC bar

Remember last week when Facebook had that problem where an undetermined number of users received messages in their Facebook inboxes that belonged to complete strangers and they said it was no big deal? We told you about the ... continue

How big was Facebook’s recent privacy glitch?

It was like PostSecret. Except it wasn't random postcards, it was whole emails. And instead of people knowingly sending their darkest secrets and innermost feelings anonymously to a guy who vets them and posts them, their Facebook messages ... continue

Did a Pennsylvania school spy on families via district-issued webcams?

A school in a Philly suburb has attracted international attention after a lawsuit was filed accusing school administrators of using webcams on school-issued laptops to spy on students after hours. The school's surveillance oversteps came to light when ... continue

The love and hate of Google Buzz and no Louis Gray, I’m not a luddite

Let's get the simple stuff out of the way right off the bat. Did Google screw up when; or rather in the way it launched Buzz? Yes it did. Is it the end of the world and yet another ... continue