The default privacy settings for Windows 10 anger me. Hiding the fact that you will be collecting everything a user types, says, or searches for on the Internet behind a big, obvious "Express Settings" button (which most users are likely to click during the setup process) and providing only a tin...
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Hardly surprising, but I thought this article [link dead 2024] (see the archived version) by Stewart Meagher summarized one researcher's findings about Facebook's tracking methods and explained the methodology so well that it was worth posting a link to it.
By now everyone and their Grandmot...
Having kids in the computer age presents a lot of challenges that parents didn't have to deal with years ago. Among them is the fact that hard core pornography is just a couple of clicks away. Depending on your operating system of choice there are zillions of programs you can buy to "filter web co...
OK so what Facebook DIDNT tell you about thir new privacy settings thing is that they have made a deal to sell all the information you have marked as public to the Google and Microsoft Bing search engines. That's right! Unless you're careful, everything you have ever posted on Facebook may soon ge...
