#privacy

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http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/01/15-go...

Every time I need to set up a new install of Chrome, I have to hunt this page out. I'm bookmarking...

alasdairw Mar 03, 2012

http://waxy.org/2012/02/the_perpetual_invisible_wi...

Andy Baio writing about the dangers of authorising apps to look in your Gmail. I am pretty careful...

alasdairw Feb 13, 2012

http://pointbeing.net/weblog/2012/01/your-mobile-p...

Interesting post about mobile-phone-number privacy. I can already think of a dozen way I could abus...

alasdairw Jan 26, 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/...

I was able to opt out of using Facebook when I didn't like their privacy settings. I welcome any su...

alasdairw Jan 25, 2012

https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/how-face...

If this is true (and I've not particular reason to thing it isn't) this is dead-on-exactly why I've...

alasdairw Jan 11, 2012

http://mypermissions.org/

Following on from the previously link, something I linked to a few weeks back, but that's woth diggi...

alasdairw Jan 03, 2012

http://waxy.org/2011/11/google_analytics/

Useful set of thought on how it might be possible to deal with abusive commenters, even if they're t...

alasdairw Nov 24, 2011

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/brutal-dishonesty...

Just in case you were in any doubt about facebook's intentions with regards to to tracking your web...

alasdairw Oct 02, 2011
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http://www.ghostery.com/

An ad-network and spyware blocker for most of the major ad networks. May ad-blockers just stop the...

alasdairw Aug 05, 2011

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/...

An excellent summary of the what the "real name" policy Google are attempting to enforce is, basical...

alasdairw Aug 05, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/au...

Here's a thrilling example of our lack of privacy in the 21st century. There really not a lot that'...

alasdairw Aug 05, 2011

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

This solves a problem I've been trying to solve for myself for about a year now. Need to grab this...

alasdairw Apr 20, 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12668552

So there's going to be a new law about what websites need to do around setting cookies, and getting...

alasdairw Mar 10, 2011