#privacy (81 links)
Disconnect, like similar software from Abine and Ghostery, aims to give consumers more control over the data they share. After the extension is installed, an icon in the browser lets users adjust which advertisers and tracking companies can access their data. Disconnect sorts the requests into categories like advertising, analytics, and social.
Hadn't come across WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL before. Handy.
- The Real Life Social Network v2 slideshare.net
Massive, quite useful presentation from Paul Adams at Google
- Your PasswordCard passwordcard.org
Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there.
Via tomtaylor.
- Facebook Allowed Automatic Data Sharing Last November | Social Hacking theharmonyguy.com
The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit.
Keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator rejects net tracking news.bbc.co.uk
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."
- With friends like these ... guardian.co.uk
Facebook has 59 million users [but] you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site
- If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar benbrown.com · Archived on
The big problem with Facebook is the plain fact that it’s an extremely annoying piece of software. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about all the stupid, nasty, and sometimes scary things Facebook has done
- The Identity Corner » The problem(s) with OpenID idcorner.org
Comprehensive listing of problems with OpenID. FUD? Not FUD? Couldn't say myself but author competes in that space. OpenID + Passwordmaker.org is working well for me.
- Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers intertwingly.net
- O'Reilly Radar > Pros and Cons of OpenID radar.oreilly.com
What are the Pros and Cons of OpenID currently? Here's a crack at it (from the Radar Team)
- texturbation » Blog Archive » Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds texturbation.com
"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t
By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations.
Mailing Preference Service
The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
- Bittorrent Masking: How to Avoid Getting Tracked as You Download. netforbeginners.about.com · Archived on
- Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com strongspace.com
A secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or with any modern web browser.
- smo's Proxy BYPASSER thesmo.com
- TPS Registration tpsonline.org.uk
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive
- JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY anon.inf.tu-dresden.de
JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably.
- Anonymous P2P - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org