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Firefox 22 Will Block Third Party Cookies By Default
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser continues to add new features. A recent patch submitted by Jonathan Mayer proposes an interesting change to the way the browser handles third party cookies. The patch is...
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EFF Report Outlines Which Companies Stand Up For Users' Data Privacy Rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its annual Who Has Your Back report, which highlights Internet companies that (do or do not) defend user’s online privacy rights. The EFF looks at the...
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Mozilla Labs: Give Advertisers Only... Exactly What They Want
Mozilla Labs is researching a new approach to the problem of privacy and targeted advertising: allow the user to provide the data that honest advertisers intend to acquire via tracking behavior. The...
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Flustered over Win10's surveillance habits? Have you met Predix?
GM's Predix asset management platform has been used for a while now, after they came to the realization that they were in the top 20 of the largest software developers on the planet. They found that...
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AT&T is late to the gigabit game, but you can pay them for "privacy"
Kansas City got Google Fiber back in 2012 and not surprisingly a lot of users jumped to this ~$70 service from their current ISPs the moment they could. Two of the incumbent ISPs suddenly came to the...
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Microsoft Updates Privacy Statement (via Ed Bott of ZDNet)
UPDATE (Nov 19th, 12pm EST): Ed Bott emailed me to clarify a few points. First, PINs for BitLocker are not required and will not be backed up to OneDrive. I knew that PINs were not required, but I was...
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Valve Comments on Christmas Security Issues
On Christmas Day, Valve had a few hours of problems. Their servers were being overloaded by malicious traffic. The best analogy that I could provide would be a bad organization who sent a thousand...
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Looks like we've got a rat, the browser formerly known as IE is spilling the...
Microsoft is revisiting an old issue with private browsing which we have seen too many times unfortunately. In 2010 Firefox's private browsing broke and left site visits on your computer and in 2013...
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Now that the Oculus Rift has arrived you can see how shady the T&C's are
As expected, Facebook has added some questionable features to the Oculus Rift and if any of it surprises you then you haven't been paying attention. The Register went through it to pull out a variety...
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Firefox 22 Will Block Third Party Cookies By Default
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser continues to add new features. A recent patch submitted by Jonathan Mayer proposes an interesting change to the way the browser handles third party cookies. The patch is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EFF Report Outlines Which Companies Stand Up For Users' Data Privacy Rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its annual Who Has Your Back report, which highlights Internet companies that (do or do not) defend user’s online privacy rights. The EFF looks at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mozilla Labs: Give Advertisers Only... Exactly What They Want
Mozilla Labs is researching a new approach to the problem of privacy and targeted advertising: allow the user to provide the data that honest advertisers intend to acquire via tracking behavior. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flustered over Win10's surveillance habits? Have you met Predix?
GM's Predix asset management platform has been used for a while now, after they came to the realization that they were in the top 20 of the largest software developers on the planet. They found that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AT&T is late to the gigabit game, but you can pay them for "privacy"
Kansas City got Google Fiber back in 2012 and not surprisingly a lot of users jumped to this ~$70 service from their current ISPs the moment they could. Two of the incumbent ISPs suddenly came to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Microsoft Updates Privacy Statement (via Ed Bott of ZDNet)
UPDATE (Nov 19th, 12pm EST): Ed Bott emailed me to clarify a few points. First, PINs for BitLocker are not required and will not be backed up to OneDrive. I knew that PINs were not required, but I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Valve Comments on Christmas Security Issues
On Christmas Day, Valve had a few hours of problems. Their servers were being overloaded by malicious traffic. The best analogy that I could provide would be a bad organization who sent a thousand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Looks like we've got a rat, the browser formerly known as IE is spilling the...
Microsoft is revisiting an old issue with private browsing which we have seen too many times unfortunately. In 2010 Firefox's private browsing broke and left site visits on your computer and in 2013...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Now that the Oculus Rift has arrived you can see how shady the T&C's are
As expected, Facebook has added some questionable features to the Oculus Rift and if any of it surprises you then you haven't been paying attention. The Register went through it to pull out a variety...
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Opera Adds Built In VPN and Ad Blocking To Web Browser
It has been some time since I last looked at Opera, and while I used to be a big fan of the alternative web browser my interest waned around the time that they abandoned their own engine to become...
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Google don't Play that; apps will now need to notify users about data harvesting
Google has responded to the news stories posted last week at various news sites about the secretive data collection many apps on Google Play indulge in. Developers of Android apps now have 60 days to...
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