I recently sent an email of protest concerning the Internet privacy Bill C-30 via OpenMedia.ca. Interestingly, I got a automated reply back from the Honourable Vic Toews addressing the issues in the email. Unfortunately, the email raises a lot more questions than it answers, for me. Here is my response, with the text of the […]
Read moreA quick shout out to Etsy.com and their swift community friendly response to what appears to be an unintentional exposure of user buying patterns linked to real names. Kudos to their team!
Read moreI just discovered via the Consumerist that Etsy.com enacted a really ugly privacy policy some little while ago. Which Etsy claims to have notified people about by email, but I certainly didn’t receive any such thing. And the new, much more exposed default privacy settings are opt-OUT, rather than opt-in. Charming.
Read moreI’ve been having some people asking me when the last time Facebook lost control of users’ information and it was stolen or inappropriately obtained and resold by app developers. As reported in the WSJ it was October of 2010 – not very long ago! I thought it worth mentioning again, especially since according to this […]
Read moreWell, yet another questionable move by Facebook in terms of protecting user information and privacy. Certainly not a questionable move in terms of monetizing their platform and making it advertiser/corporate friendly, though. On January 14th Facebook released a new feature for application developers: “We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible.”
Read moreWith all the hoorah surrounding Facebook’s May 2010 privacy changes and new policies, I thought it would be a good idea to collect all the hacks I know of together to keep your personal info as secure as possible!
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