A recent article in the Wall Street Journal turned the spotlight on Facebook apps and how they can compromise your personal security. In truth, all social media channels have privacy issues, but with almost a billion users, Facebook is far ...
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Learn How To Limit Access: Protect Your Privacy Without Ditching Social Media
Numerous news sources have begun to report on problems with Facebook privacy in particular when using apps. Because it such an open platform that encourages “friends” sharing these apps with each other, it is now populated with rogue apps that ...
Read More »Parenting in the Digital Age
The pressure comes from everywhere. Television, movies, and music are constantly breaking new ground for promiscuity and moral decay. Experts talk incessantly about self-esteem and self-actualization. Neighbors and acquaintances frown on traditional values. All around, influence peddlers are hawking their ...
Read More »Domestic Drones and the Evolution of the New Surveillance Society
It is becoming increasingly clear that rapid technological innovation will be the defining characteristic of the twenty-first century. In most ways, new technologies are improving our lives, and they are also creating brand new growing industries that could be our ...
Read More »Working Around Google’s March 1st Privacy Changes
Google’s announced intention to track the activities of users across almost all of its holdings will take effect on March 1, 2012! Users of YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search will not have the option of opting out. It will apply ...
Read More »Lessened Security Checks for a Select Few at US Airports
ORLANDO, FL – The Department of Homeland Security announced a pilot program aimed at speeding airline passengers through pre-flight security checks is expanding to Orlando and at least another two dozen other cities. A special lane will be provided allowing ...
Read More »New Timeline Feature Violates Facebook Users Privacy?
Some users of Facebook suggest that they change the site constantly simply to keep their employees busy. If you take advantage of Facebook, you understand this complaint. It certainly seems like the changes made to the social networking site are ...
Read More »Google Again Raises Privacy Issues With Announcement
MOUNTAINVIEW, CA – Google recently announced its intention to track the activities of users across almost all of its holdings. Users of YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search will not have the option of opting out. It will apply to all ...
Read More »You Don’t Need a Perfect Password
Given enough time, ingenuity, equipment, and resources, virtually anything can be hacked into. The truth is, there is no such a thing as a perfect password. Many burglars admit they don’t bother with the house that has all the security. ...
Read More »The Privacy Trade-Off
It’s a safe bet you will have heard, perhaps paraphrased many times over, Benjamin Franklin’s observation: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Why would I make such a ...
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