Online Privacy | Abine http://www.abine.com/blog What's happening now in online privacy, from pop culture to law to personal stories. Mon, 13 May 2013 21:44:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Is your online presence killing your job prospects? http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/is-your-online-presence-killing-your-job-prospects/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/is-your-online-presence-killing-your-job-prospects/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 21:44:55 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6367 If you want to get a job–or keep one–listen up. Ninety-two percent of US companies screen potential employees through social media, and according to a survey we just did of over five hundred 2013 graduates, most people aren’t doing much to clean up their web presences. Your online privacy IQ could be standing in the [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/is-your-online-presence-killing-your-job-prospects/feed/ 0 5 tips to stop Facebook from stalking your real life http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-your-real-life-shopping/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-your-real-life-shopping/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 19:39:52 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6347 Facebook and its advertisers want to know everything about you, online and off. The latest push is around knowing where you grew up. If you’ve signed onto Facebook lately, you’ve probably seen it. They’ve been asking for your hometown on your profile page for several weeks now, but they’ve gotten more aggressive lately: they’re putting [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-your-real-life-shopping/feed/ 1 Eric Schmidt does a double-take on privacy http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/eric-schmidt-does-a-double-take-on-privacy/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/eric-schmidt-does-a-double-take-on-privacy/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:23:18 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6335 Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has come under fire in the past for some anti-privacy statements, but it looks like he’s changed his mind. In a recent interview with CNN, Schmidt gave his top 6 predictions for the future of tech. His top prediction? Online privacy is going to become even more important. It’ll be [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/eric-schmidt-does-a-double-take-on-privacy/feed/ 0 5 tips to protect yourself after the LivingSocial password breach http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-protect-yourself-after-the-livingsocial-password-breach/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-protect-yourself-after-the-livingsocial-password-breach/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:32:15 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6314 The social deals site LivingSocial was just hacked to the tune of 50 million compromised accounts. If you’ve ever signed up for LivingSocial, your name, email, date of birth, and password are at risk (luckily, the databases containing credit card and financial info weren’t affected). LivingSocial is yet another example of a giant data breach [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-tips-to-protect-yourself-after-the-livingsocial-password-breach/feed/ 0 Abine fans, want to talk to the press? http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/abine-fans-want-to-talk-to-the-press/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/abine-fans-want-to-talk-to-the-press/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:55:13 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6298 Hello, blog readers and privacy tool users. Journalists often come to us to ask our expert opinion on privacy news, and one of the most common requests they have is whether they can talk to our customers. Hearing from real people about why privacy matters to them can take a news article from just okay [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/abine-fans-want-to-talk-to-the-press/feed/ 3 6 steps to getting hired at a tech startup without any engineering skills http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/how-to-get-hired-at-a-tech-startup-without-any-engineering-skills/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/how-to-get-hired-at-a-tech-startup-without-any-engineering-skills/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:38:09 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6277 Everyone’s hiring engineers (shameless plug: so are we at Abine), and I’m not one. Odds are, neither are you. Nor was I about 2 years ago when I was perusing Craigslist Boston’s legal services section for an alternative way to use my law degree. It’s pretty dejecting to spend your entire life getting straight A’s [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/how-to-get-hired-at-a-tech-startup-without-any-engineering-skills/feed/ 8 Review DoNotTrackMe and enter to win $250 to Amazon.com! http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/review-donottrackme-and-enter-to-win-250-to-amazon-com/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/review-donottrackme-and-enter-to-win-250-to-amazon-com/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:29:13 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6265 If you’ve had a good experience with DoNotTrackMe, help us spread the word by leaving a review. Just by doing that, you’ll have a chance to win a $250 digital gift card to Amazon.com. Here’s how to do it: 1. Click the icon below of the browser you use. You’ll be taken to the review [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/5-privacy-tips-for-tinder/feed/ 3 The Facebook phone isn’t a phone; it’s a super-app http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/the-facebook-phone-isnt-a-phone-its-a-super-app/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/the-facebook-phone-isnt-a-phone-its-a-super-app/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:13:22 +0000 Sarah Downey http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6228 Facebook announced its big plan for mobile today, called Facebook Home. Despite speculation that it would be a Facebook phone or a Facebook operating system, it’s more like a super app with “deep integration” into Android phones. It’s basically Facebook’s status stream brought to your phone’s home screen. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg put it, [...]

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]]> http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/the-facebook-phone-isnt-a-phone-its-a-super-app/feed/ 5 OkCupid Moderators Read Private Messages Between Users http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/okcupid-moderators-read-private-messages-between-users/ http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/okcupid-moderators-read-private-messages-between-users/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:28:01 +0000 Lee Meryash http://www.abine.com/blog/?p=6216 OkCupid (and other online dating site) users might be surprised to learn that certain third-party users of the online dating site have been able to read their private correspondence for years now. While OKCupid recently addressed the privacy issue, third party “moderators” are still gaining limited access to some private user information. What sort of [...]

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