You can now log in with Google+ on several websites including USA Today, The Guardian, The Fancy and Fitbit. Google+ will increasing become an option on sites that tie to social media accounts by allowing you to log in with Facebook or Twitter. Although logging into another site with an existing social media account is … Continue reading Log in with Facebook, Google+ or Twitter: Pros and cons
Category: Online Security and Privacy
Google+ privacy for what you post is controlled by sharing with limited circles or specific individuals. Even though I wrote that you only need one Google+ circle, if you don't intend to make all your posts public you will likely need additional circles. (You may also want additional circles to control how you read posts … Continue reading Google+ privacy: Create circles by what you post not who is in them
Don't get "scroogled" this Valentine's Day by letting Google read your love messages and use the content for targeted ads. That's the invasion of privacy Microsoft wants you to consider in their Valentine's Day Scroogled video, part of their campaign to get people to move away from Google services like Gmail. Google ad software analyzes … Continue reading A Valentine’s Day message from Microsoft: Don’t get scroogled
Raytheon Riot is software that can predict your location using social media data. As revealed by The Guardian newspaper, Raytheon Riot (Rapid Information Overlay Technology) gathers data from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare and analyzes it to among other things predict where you will be at a given time. The software doesn't just use … Continue reading Raytheon Riot predicts your location using social media data
Facebook lists are not as good as Google+ circles for giving you control over who sees your posts. Like many Facebook privacy settings the behavior of custom Facebook lists is not obvious, which makes them difficult to use properly. Facebook offers the option to exclude people from posts using lists or individual names, which seems … Continue reading Facebook lists versus Google+ circles: Why circles give you more control
Kim Z. Dale 