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Read this article Who Owns Your Facebook Data? from ITworld. It explicits very clearly the terms of service from Facebook… and offers a tool from Reputation.com to help you control access to your data. See what they say: In other words, you own it, but they can do whatever they want with it. Hence the Read More …
Announced on the Data Privacy Day by CNN: Unsurprisingly, the tech companies would prefer to see these problems solved through tools, not rules. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) touted the new “two-step verification” option it will be rolling out to all accounts within the next few weeks. The new opt-in setting gives users a second security Read More …
I extract this from tech.fortune.cnn.com, by Kevin Kelleher: Some of the most popular iPhone apps were found to be sending personal data like location and phone numbers to advertisers. The FCC passed a set of neutrality rules that fell far short of the openness that people are used to on the web, particularly on the mobile web. In most Read More …
Check this article by Jami Makan: ..we hope you don’t mind being tracked offline, too.” In August, Facebook launched Places, a tool that lets you “check in” at real-life locations, such as restaurants and concert venues, with the help of the GPS on your smartphone. The idea: to let friends know where you are. Though Read More …
Google is picking up the tab for university research projects on privacy, machine learning, the use of cell phones as widespread data collection machines, and so on. The grants are worth nearly $6 million – and this works out to anything between $100,000 and $1.5 million apiece. The Google research program certainly seems to Read More …