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Category Archives: Internet privacy

Facebook is sending your info to snoopers

Monday, October 18, 2010

Facebook claims that it’s a mistake that they are working to “dramatically limit” (yeah, sure). But, for some time, they’ve been giving your ID to the companies that make a business of collecting data about you on the Internet, then selling it. Reporters for the Wall Street Journal caught them at it. Says the Wall […]

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Zombie cookies

Monday, October 11, 2010

The SafariCookies control panel I have been carefully watching, and manually managing, my browser cookies for quite some time. It’s quite a lot of trouble. And it’s also disturbing. Most disturbing is that I’ve found that cookies have been regenerating, even though I never visited the site that the cookies belong to. I’ve also found […]

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John Twelve Hawks and the Vast Machine

Sunday, September 12, 2010

It’s been a long time since I’ve kept up with what’s new in science fiction. In the early 1980s, I ran a very popular and very literate computer bulletin board (remember those?) called Science Fiction Writers Network. Some of the big names were regulars there, including most notably Orson Scott Card, who won both the […]

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Keeping Facebook in quarantine

Thursday, September 2, 2010

I was surprised at how many people were interested in my recent post on Defending your privacy on the Web. When I posted it, I was afraid that it might be too long and too technical and thus too boring. But in addition to the comments on the blog, I had a number of responses […]

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Defending your privacy on the Web

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The social and political classes in George Orwell’s novel 1984 We’ve all been told that there is no such thing as privacy on the Web. That is true. Still, we are not helpless. Recently I got quite angry after I learned about a whole new category of privacy threat on the Internet — shady private […]

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