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Tag Archives: online privacy
Users fret over Chrome auto-login change
Users were complaining this week after discovering they’d been logged in to Google’s Chrome browser automatically, after logging into a Google website.
Facebook accidentally unblocks people
It’s fixed now, thankfully: be it airheads who post baloney or stalkers, all blocked users deserve to STAY blocked.
Someone else is reading your Gmails
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them.
Brave adds Tor to reinvent anonymous browsing
The Brave privacy browser has added another feature to bolster its blossoming anti-surveillance credentials – the ability to use the Tor anonymity system by launching a tab.
Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people
In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients.
Busted by a Facebook ‘friend’ who’s an undercover cop? It’s legal!
Friending somebody means assuming the risk that they’re an undercover cop or informant.
Facebook’s getting a clear history button
“This is an example of the kind of control we think you should have.”
Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website ‘hacking’?
A teen is being charged for downloading 7k records, 250 of which weren’t properly redacted. Who’s to blame?
Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default – why this matters
Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak, but its the first version of the browser to do this without the user having to consciously turn it on.