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Facebook Applications Leaking User Info To 3rd Parties, Says Wall Street Journal

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In the next episode of Facebook’s privacy and user security woes, it’s the already notorious Facebook Applications that are under fire for leaking users’ IDs to third parties, specifically internet research and advertising companies. The news was broken by the Wall Street Journal and thus is being taken seriously. The magazine reports that all of […]

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Maintain Your Privacy With Self Destroying Data

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Do you want to share a problem, secret, photo or any other sensitive information with someone via email or on a web page but don’t want the proof to remain available to be shared or leaked at a later date? ‘Vanish’ is the answer to all such problems. It may seem like something out of […]

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What’s Still Wrong With Facebook’s Privacy Controls

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Facebook has been on a major damage control spree for the past few weeks regarding its privacy controls and has introduced simpler and easier to understand options and lots of new features too. The company though has addressed quite a few issues based on users complaints from around the world but has chosen to ignore […]

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Facebook Introduces A Simpler Application Permission System

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Facebook’s privacy settings woes seem far from over as the company continues to roll out simpler versions of several of its functions. The latest is a much simpler application permission system where third party apps specify exactly what data they need to access and gives users the option to opt out later if they wish. […]

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Apple Now Collects and Shares iPhone and iPad Users’ Location

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Apple has just updated its Privacy Policy page adding a new clause which allows the company to legally store “the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device” and share it with “partners and licensees.” Users have no choice but to agree to the clause but Apple is reassuring that the data is “collected […]

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That Was Fast! Facebook Announces New Privacy Features!

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News has just started breaking in the online universe that Facebook is introducing new and improved privacy features following weeks of furore over its recently updated privacy settings. Mark Zuckerberg had promised Monday in a ‘Washington Post’ column that users’ complaints will be addressed very soon and now it seems it’s time to deliver on […]

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Australia’s Communications Minister Slams Google’s Privacy Policy

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Stephen Conroy, the Australian minister for communications, has called Google’s privacy policy “a bit creepy” while also severely criticising the social networking giant Facebook and its creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Stephen Conroy went on to claim that Google had committed the “single greatest breach in the history of privacy” by collecting private wireless data […]

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