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Tag Archives: Privacy
“Facebook porn Trojan” – here’s how NOT to get caught
You receive a Facebook posting that offers you something saucy, you click through to the website… …and guess what happens next?
Facebook’s DeepFace facial recognition technology has human-like accuracy
Facebook is going to allow you to blur your face in photos… once it’s identified you.
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Canary Watch site will keep an eye out for vanishing warrant canaries
Canary Watch will track changes to these transparency report statements that would indicate providers had received subpoenas with gag orders. 
Internet Explorer has a Cross Site Scripting zero-day bug
Another day, another zero-day. This time, it’s Internet Explorer that is attracting the sort of publicity a browser doesn’t want, with the public disclosure of an XSS bug.
Google extends its all-seeing eye, invites third party apps to Google Now
Digital assistant data orgy to glom onto info from Lyft or eBay, et al., whose creepily helpful cards will auto-pop up, sans search.
Facebook’s got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with partners
As Facebook’s new privacy policy comes into force users can expect more sharing of their data and ‘enhanced’ targeting of adverts across partnered websites.
Anatomy of a browser dilemma – how HSTS ‘supercookies’ make you choose between privacy or security
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is supposed to keep you more secure online, but it could be used to track you against your will. Mark Stockley explains…
Baby monitor hijacked; change default password urges Foscam
A nanny was spooked last week by a cyber creep peeping in on her via a baby monitor while she changed a baby’s diaper.