If you use the "Recommended" privacy settings on Facebook (also the default privacy settings) then you can expect to see your picture, name, address and more taken and used in ways that you would not approve of. The latest "proof of concept" is a dating site that scraped the publicly accessible data on user profiles [...]
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Have you heard about the Facebook murders? No, you haven’t. That’s because it hasn’t happened, yet. The latest dustup over Facebook’s privacy changes has played out around the web, in the print media, and even in Washington D.C. as the company decided to put dollars above users by changing it’s privacy settings and policies. If [...]
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Nothing says "simple minded" like calling the latest privacy innovation built into browsers "porn-mode". Seriously? You can’t think of a single reason other than surfing porn that you would want a privacy mode for? If so, you are either too naive or too obsessed with porn. Let’s start by saying I don’t want other people [...]
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When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature “porno mode,” suggesting that the only reason for having a [...]
Continue reading about Top 6 Uses for Google Incognito Windows and Internet Explorer Privacy Mode
When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature "porno mode," suggesting that the only reason for having a [...]
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