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Facebook Privacy Loophole Cloaks Deactivated Friends, Allows Unexpected Creeping

A zero day privacy fault in Facebook’s system allows your friends to creep around your profile without you ever seeing them.

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FBI Can’t Crack Android; Taps Google To Sidestep 5th Amendment

The Federal Bureau of Investigation raised some eyebrows this week when it tacitly admitted it couldn’t get past the pattern lock on an Android handset, by serving Google with a.

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Google Plus: Homogenization And Its Discontents

Veteran Apple interface designer Andy Hertzfeld has enjoyed outsize influence on the latest generation of Google design changes. Hertzfeld made his name in Silicon Valley working with Steve Jobs and.

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Google Reverses Course On Do Not Track; White House Pushes Privacy

Search giant Google has reversed course and agreed to install a “Do Not Track” button on the Chrome browser in the near future. Do Not Track is a proposed policy,.

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Why We Need To Shift Our Focus Of The Open Web

A few weeks ago I found myself at a family dinner, when the inevitable discussion of politics became a topic of conversation.  I love my grandma more than anything, but to.

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The Banality of “Don’t Be Evil”: Google Slapped With Class-Action Cookie Monster Suit

Google may face a class-action suit over the revelation that the company was bypassing default privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser to illicitly gather user information. Attorneys representing an Illinois.

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PrivacyScore: Find Out Who Cares About Your Privacy

A site’s 0-100 score on PrivacyScore is based on its data policies, like whether it lets users know when the government has requested their data, and tracking data treatment, such as whether it provides an opt-out option.

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DuckDuckGo Hits 1,000,000 Direct Searches Milestone

The slick search engine received over 1,000,000 direct searches for the first time in the Company’s history on February 13,2012.

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How Facebook Benefits From Your Breakup

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, but ironically many couples lose the spark of love that kindled their relationship just before the most romantic day of the year. Let’s.

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Is Having Two Identities a Lack of Integrity?

Mark Zuckerberg believes that we should all have one uniform identity, but in the real world that’s not how life works.

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