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Original Technorati articles tagged “privacy”

• in Blogging
  Introducing Rapportive: Big Brother's Little Helper
  Rapportive is a useful Gmail plug-in, but buyer beware
  by WildWildEast / on Jul 2, 2010
• in Politics
  Facebook Lobbying Targets the C.I.A
  Facebook is stepping up their lobbying efforts
  by cebsilver / on Jun 29, 2010
• in IT
  Cloud Computing: What Will We Lose to It?
  Cloud computing: a potential heaven with a catch: it makes Google the gatekeeper of your personal information.
  by stefanialucchetti / on Jun 21, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “privacy”

 

• Compiling Public Data Isn’t Hacking: Facebook’s Strategy Exposes Public Information of 100 Million Users

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 133
  I was up talking to a friend a couple of days on how writing about Facebook was the biggest pain in life and the adverse psychological problems it got me into. But you can’t help not talking about it, given that the third of everyone online is on the social network. Plus Facebook has more to do with simply ...
  5 hours ago

• Mark Zuckerberg Is a Star in India, Too [Nerdspotting]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  Facebooks director of engineering got married in India earlier this year, and his boss Mark Zuckerberg joined him for the wedding, sister and girlfriend in tow. Now pictures of the social networkers are circulating around the subcontinent. More »
  5 hours ago

• The Health Care Blog: Use Emotion to Drive Adoption—Not Rejection—of Health IT

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 125
  The Health Care Blog: Use Emotion to Drive Adoption—Not Rejection—of Health IT . Colleague Lygeia Ricciardi ( @lygeia ) published this blog post in The Health Care blog today, which is descriptive of a change in attitude that I’ve been observing in the area of Health Information Technology, which is a ...
  6 hours ago

• Man who published details of 100m Facebook users learning how to break passwords

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 951
  The man who collected and published personal details from 100m Facebook users says he did so to learn how to break passwords.
  6 hours ago

• Wikileaks Aint Got Nothing On These Facebook Leaks

  
  Pitt Watch — Authority:
  Okay, so this is a little terrifying. Imagine the plot of Die Hard With a Vengeance , but instead of Timothy Olyphant stealing all the money in the U.S. to prove how flimsy our bank systems are, some security consultant decided to write a code to hack 100m Facebook users profiles, and then released the information ...
  6 hours ago

• Facebook Losing More Than Face

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 132
  Despite all those people who honoured May 31st 2010 as Quit Facebook Day – well, 31,000 people , maybe not an enormous dent in the 500 million users Facebook recently claimed – Facebook marches on. Clearly theyre doing something right. But what? Its probably not the personal charm of founder Mark Zuckerberg, ...
  6 hours ago

• Google Android and Really Bad Math

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 132
  Yesterday I blogged about a security company that found a high percentage of apps for the iPhone and for the Android were stealing user information http://blog.eset.com/2010/07/28/dead-men-tell-no-tales-but-smart-phones-tell-all. I call it stealing because the user is not aware of what personal data is leaving their ...
  7 hours ago

• Facebook torrent hack makes free download of personal user data

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 600
  The Facebook torrent hack mined the personal information of 171 million Facebook users and made the data free for anyone to download. Geek and Poke illustration. The Facebook torrent is a file of data on Facebook that a hacker mined and made available free for anyone who wants it. Ron Bowes wrote a web crawling code ...
  7 hours ago

• Reputation Management, Internet Privacy, and Social Media Quick Hits

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 128
  In today’s Quick Hits, we talk about the launch of Facebook Questions, how political posturing is stalling consumer privacy legislation, and why the military is interested in social media security. – Facebook Launches Facebook Questions Facebook officially launched its long-anticipated Q&A feature, ...
  7 hours ago

• Concerns Aplenty for the 2 Federal Privacy Bills

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 577
  Two privacy bills are already up for consideration. And at yesterday’s Senate Commerce hearing on Consumer Online Privacy , we heard Senator Kerry announce that he will be working on new legislation to regulate online privacy.  While we wait to see what Kerry will offer, NetChoice has concerns over the bills ...
  7 hours ago

• The Problem with Facebook and Twitter: Things You Can Do To Protect Yourself

  
  The Giggle Test — Authority: 130
  BBC is reporting that a Facebook Directory with 100 million users’ personal information is available for download on the Pirate Bay. Click here to see the directory download site . The directory is 2.8 GB. Here’s what Ron Bowes (the guy who did this) had to say for himself : Facebook helpfully informs . . . ...
  8 hours ago

• Today’s Oxymoron: Facebook Privacy

  
  Adotas — Authority: 519
  ADOTAS – On Tuesday Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Washington, DC, to meet with Republican members of the Senate’s high-tech task force and encourage them to tweet less and post on Facebook more… What? Oh no — he was discussing Internet privacy with them… Isn’t that like having the ...
  8 hours ago

• Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphones Applications (FREE) “secretly offloading your private information”

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 459
  Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications built for Apples iPhone and Googles Android smartphones. "It found that nearly a quarter of iPhone apps and almost half Android apps contained software code that secretly pull sensitive data off users phones and ship them off to third ...
  8 hours ago

• Download Accelerator Plus 9.4.1.1

  
  Free Software Download — Authority: 158
  Type: Freeware Cost: $0.00 Size: 10.47 MB Release date: 27 Jul 2010 Platform: Win7 x32,Win7 x64,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista Home Premium,Windows Vista Business,Windows Vista Enterprise,Windows Vista Ultimate,Windows Vista Home Basic x64,Windows Vista Home Premium x64,Windows ...
  8 hours ago

• Internet Explorer Remains Vulnerable To Autofill Flaw, Says …

  
  Internet & PC Lifestyle — Authority: 470
  Apple has fixed its privacy bug, but far more users are still browsing with Microsoft’s privacy flaw unpatched. Here is the original post: Internet Explorer Remains Vulnerable To Autofill Flaw, Says …
  9 hours ago

• Details of 100 million Facebook users were *already* exposed on the net

  
  Graham Cluley's blog — Authority: 603
  Have you seen the headlines? Theyre pretty scary-looking. Heres just a handful - although there were hundreds more to choose from: "A fifth of Facebook users names leaked to file-sharers" , Techwatch "Details from 100 million Facebook profiles posted online" , Network World "Details of 100m Facebook users ...
  9 hours ago

• Is Free Education Really Free?

  
  Asset Protection Blog - Asset Allocation - Asset Management — Authority: 159
  As the cost of college in the U.S. continues to climb, its hard to believe that in some countries you can still be educated for free. Is Free Education Really Free? is a post from: Asset Protection Blog - Asset Management - Asset Allocation Related posts: Paterson wavers on education cuts Education Department ...
  9 hours ago

• Ron Bowes Defends His Decision To Publish 100 million Facebook Users Details

  
  NoNoos.com | Online News & Media — Authority: 131
  The man responsible for the publication of of personal details from over 100 million Facebook users has spoken out to explain his actions. Ron Bowes scanned Facebook profiles using a piece of code and collected data that was made public by each user. The list has been compiled into one downloadable file and ...
  9 hours ago

• White House wants easier access for FBI to internet activity logs

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 853
  The Obama administration wants to make it easier for the FBI to force ISPs to turn over records of individual Internet activity without a court order if agents believe the information is relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation."The administration wants to add just four words -- electronic communication ...
  9 hours ago

• Those Nighttime iPhone Downloads Are Actually Not Downloads [Apple]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 887
  Those large quantities of nighttime data transfer that appear on your AT&T; cellphone bill? Its not new, and its nothing to worry about—even though somehow its getting more attention now. Its just routine updates for billing. More »
  9 hours ago

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