Content Tagged: privacy
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Part of the fun of Spotify is sharing your musical tastes with your friends and followers, but does your entire Facebook feed really need to know the details of your latest "Hot Jamz" playlist? Spotif...
Posted: 4/17/2013 11:36:37 AM
It looks like an extra layer of security could be coming to both the iWatch and iPhone 5S. According to the latest rumors,both devices will offer the ability to scan your fingerprint,which could b...
Posted: 4/3/2013 12:41:26 PM
Your bank calls you to verify your recent $750 bill at an out-of-state Taco Bell, but you haven't left town in weeks. You quickly contest the charge and request a new credit card, but when you check...
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:46:07 PM
Not to sound antisocial about it, but going online to connect with friends or family feels like being the unwitting invitee to a birthday party at a nudist camp. To be social requires virtually ...
Posted: 1/23/2013 12:34:49 PM
In the world of social networks, Foursquare is sort of like the captain of the cheerleading squad: Its very existence is predicated on the idea of nonstop, chatty oversharing. In practical terms, that...
Posted: 1/22/2013 4:45:35 PM
Unlike other social networks, which are foremost used for entertainment or news, LinkedIn is almost exclusively used for business purposes. That creates a presumed limiting factor on risky posts, behaviors and interactions you'll have.
Posted: 1/22/2013 3:33:30 PM
As a service devoted to short and sweet communication, the ways for publicly embarrassing yourself are blissfully few, beyond tweeting something asinine. Still, Twitter's relatively barebones functi...
Posted: 1/22/2013 2:33:54 PM
Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg famously implied during a 2010 talk that the age of privacy was over, so as you'd expect, the company is notoriously awful about oversharing (and overcollecting) your data.
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Posted: 1/22/2013 12:05:19 PM
Tweaking your Activity Log just became a necessary and tedious new part of being a Facebook user. Thanks to the service's new Graph Search feature, all that profile info you've painstakingly updated o...
Posted: 1/15/2013 3:51:16 PM
On the surface, Nokia's proxy-based Xpress Web browser-- available for the manufacturer's Asha and flagship Lumia handsets-- sounds nothing short of excellent, routing Internet traffic through N...
Posted: 1/11/2013 12:20:13 PM