$25: that’s the price Google will pay you if you allow them to track your surfing experience: in other words, Google will pay you $25 so as to allow them to look over your shoulder when you browse the internet. Is this something that surprises you? Well, let’s first see the details of this Google offer. [...]
You all heard it by now as SOPA is everywhere. Today is a special day, when big sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and others protest against SOPA & PIPA. Since last few weeks it is a very hot topic for everyone and when Obama administration said it will not sign this legislation I thought – the [...]
Privacy on the internet has been threatened multiple times during this year 2011. Indeed, at multiple occasions, and from different parts of the world, the internet has been used to spread some information that aren’t necessarily reported on the mainstream media. Social media has made it that citizen media became more and more popular.Combined to [...]
You have surely heard about this SOPA thing on the news lately. SOPA stands for “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it’s an effort made in the US for fighting against piracy on the internet. You can guess that Hollywood big guys are actively supporting this act. However, this act has generated a lot of outcry [...]
This is the end of the year, and some of us just like getting recommendations on books that they should be reading. Since we are into VPN and privacy topics, I thought I’d put a small list of books that are worth considering. So as to ease things, I have selected titles from Amazon’s database. [...]
This has been in the news for last week: it has been reported that there was a program within some Android devices that reports keylogs from mobile phones to the telco company. Want to know more about it: Google for “CarrierIQ keylog”. Anyway, this shows once again that: every popular platform tend to be the [...]
The deal is signed, and everybody seems to be in the expectation mode. In fact, this thing is becoming a bit like a spaghetti as of now: – first, Microsoft acquires a share into facebook. You may have seen it: facebook search feature is now powered by Bing (which belongs to Microsoft). – then, recently, [...]
Facebook privacy settings has always been seen as untrustworthy for users. In order to address this issue, Facebook has introduced a lot of changes to their settings so as to give a more molecular control to users. But who actually can cope with all the changes? Are users even aware of what to do and [...]
Today (especially if you live in Denmark) we bring you some disturbing news. As you may read in the article presented by Electronista, there are some strong suggestions for complete end to privacy and anonymity for Danish internet users. We see one more important fact that sticks out of this text, but we will let [...]
