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Post by healthy11 on Oct 25, 2012 16:57:47 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Nov 26, 2012 10:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by LurkNoMore on Nov 27, 2012 12:00:50 GMT -5
I just installed privacyfix on Firefox - I was fairly secure (and earning no money for facebook or google) but had lots of companies I have never heard of tracking me...and google tracking me.
thanks for the tip!
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Post by healthy11 on Dec 20, 2012 20:59:18 GMT -5
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Post by eoffg on Dec 21, 2012 4:33:40 GMT -5
They also made a change, where if click Like on any product? Then this can be sold to the company, to use for advertising on Facebook. Which also use your photo as well.
Though it also raises a question about many forums, like this one? Where you can sign in with your facebook account. Which means that Facebook tracks what you write on a forum, and uses algorithms to identify when you give a product a favourable mention. So that you could find that your positive comment here, could be used for advertising on Facebook? Or rather sold to the company to use.
Where Facebook might soon find, that people want to be paid for a positive comment or clicking Like for a product? Which would undermine the credibility of comments?
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Post by healthy11 on Dec 26, 2012 23:10:57 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jan 4, 2013 20:32:51 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jan 5, 2013 9:36:35 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 4, 2013 20:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 23, 2013 21:57:59 GMT -5
I recently heard about Snapchat, a photo messaging app that claims recipients you chose to send your image to will only have 10 seconds or less to view the picture, then it will be deleted from the recipient's device and the company's server. A big fear is that it will be used by people for sexting. Note Snapchat's privacy policy says it can't guarantee photos won't still be available in some form after the set time has elapsed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnapchatAnother product that's supposed to be gaining popularity with young kids is Kik Messenger, an instant messaging application for mobile devices.
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Post by eoffg on Feb 24, 2013 4:23:56 GMT -5
It also states: 'Snapchat can find the user's friends through the user's smart phone contact list. Where find means that it can access your contact list. So that your contact list also could be also be copied to their server? It also provides a gateway for hackers to access your contact list.
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Post by healthy11 on Mar 23, 2013 11:22:34 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Apr 18, 2013 7:16:01 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/former-google-engineer-builds-stop-companies-tracking-people-135014801.html....One startup is looking to stop third-parties from tracking users on the web, and one of the company’s co-founders may be in a better position than most to accomplish this lofty goal. Former Google engineer Brian Kennish began building Disconnect two years ago, according to a recent feature on The New York Times’ Bits blog. The service installs a plugin for either Chrome or Firefox and stops third parties from tracking users as they browse the web. It is currently blocks more than 2,000 different companies that track users online, most of which track users for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. “We are stopping that flow of data as you bounce around the Web,” Kennish told Bits. “Third-party retargeters are not going to have information about you.” Kennish’s background at Google, an online advertising pioneer, may give him unique insights into online tracking services that others simply don’t have. And to make the software even more appealing, Disconnect allows users to pay whatever they want for the software and service, and to designate a portion of their payment that will go to charity if they choose. The latest version of Disconnect for Chrome and Firefox is currently available on the company’s website: disconnect.me/
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Post by healthy11 on Jun 1, 2013 10:57:05 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jul 1, 2013 22:36:05 GMT -5
In light of the NSA (National Security Agency) revelations: www.technologyreview.com/view/516691/technology-not-law-limits-mass-surveillance/and news.yahoo.com/nsa-revelations-reframe-digital-life-072149210.html says, "Christopher Shoup, a college student from Victorville, Calif., has been encouraging friends to converse on Cryptocat, a private messaging program that promises users they can chat "without revealing messages to a third party." Shoup isn't worried that his own behavior could draw scrutiny, but said the mere idea that the government could retrieve his personal communications "bothers me as an American." "I don't think I should have to worry," he said. Cryptocat said it nearly doubled its number of users in two days after Snowden revealed himself as the source of leaks about the NSA's programs. Two search engine companies billed as alternatives to Google, Bing and Yahoo are also reporting significant surges in use. DuckDuckGo and Ixquick both promise they don't collect data from users or filter results based on previous history."
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Post by healthy11 on Jul 8, 2013 21:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Sept 7, 2013 14:08:36 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Sept 14, 2013 20:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 11, 2013 13:19:15 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 25, 2013 21:27:32 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Dec 4, 2013 19:33:39 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jan 10, 2014 23:43:21 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Jan 30, 2014 22:52:09 GMT -5
For Android cell phone users, there's a new app which can alert you to when your phone is being tracked. www.yahoo.com/tech/this-android-app-gives-an-alert-when-your-phone-is-75075569624.html"...Location tracking has become a common feature for many third-party apps, but one group of developers wants to give Androidusers the opportunity to understand the privacy risks of these apps. MIT Technology Review reports that Rutgers University assistant professor Janne Lindqvist and his group have developed an app that will display a large banner across the front of the screen that reads “Your location is accessed by [app name]” any time an app accesses the GPS functionality of your smartphone." (Realize how easy it may be for someone to stalk you, or to know when you're not at home so they can rob your house, etc.)
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 1, 2014 23:58:52 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 3, 2014 22:06:09 GMT -5
This caution, from Forbes, concerns phone call scams: Don’t be a victim!
"Criminals target people simply by calling them. Intended victims receive a call on their phones from area code 473 which rings once and then disconnects, thereby arousing the call-recipient’s natural curiosity – “who just called me and from where?” Sometimes the caller actually allows the phone to ring long enough for the victim to answer -- after which the caller (or the caller’s robocaller system) makes groaning sounds or otherwise indicates that he or she is in distress and then hangs up, enticing the victim to wonder what is going on and call back. To protect yourself, don’t call back.
While area code 473 may appear to be domestic, it is not. This area code was created in the late 1990s for the islands of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, which, like the United States, use country code 1. Calls placed to 473 numbers are international calls and can be quite expensive – and, because the criminals sometimes establish the number which the victim sees on his or her caller ID as a premium service number – the rate can exceed $20 for the first minute!
473 is not the only area code from which this scam has been perpetrated. Beware calls coming in from area codes 809, 284, 649 and 876, which like 473 are international, and are known to have been used for similar scams. Of course, if you do not have a calling plan that includes calls to Canada, there are many other area codes for which you could be billed international dialing rates, but so-called “one ring,” “ring and run,” or “dial and disconnect” scams are not typically perpetrated using Canadian numbers.
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Post by Mayleng on Feb 4, 2014 11:22:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the warning Healthy.
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 6, 2014 22:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Mar 11, 2014 21:09:38 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Apr 21, 2014 18:54:38 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on May 30, 2014 8:04:09 GMT -5
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