The hacker group Anonymous called for a voluntary Internet blackout to protest CISPA, but at this time no major websites seem to be participating. So what is CISPA anyway, and why would anyone want to protest it? Furthermore, why did the CISPA blackout fail to get high profile participants? What is CISPA? CISPA is the … Continue reading What is CISPA and what happened to the planned blackout to protest it?
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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
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
Kim Z. Dale 