Mozilla recently introduced a patch into its Firefox browser that blocks third-party cookies, and it’s an interesting, long-awaited development. The change stops third parties from putting cookies on your machine unless you’ve ever visited their website, which stops one of the easiest and most direct ways that users are tracked. This third party cookie blocking [...]
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Give Your Twitter Account a Good Spring Cleaning
The following post is by Chris Crosby, the Co-Founder and Managing Director of SociallyActive. SociallyActive is the leading provider of social-privacy monitoring for teens. We give parents the tools to help you protect your children on social networks. If you’re on Twitter, you may have found yourself wanting to review and remove some of your past tweets. While [...]
Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher learn value of privacy post-divorce
A Daily Mail article on an unflattering picture of Demi Moore’s hairy legs ended up serving as an unlikely privacy story on both the former Mrs. Kutcher and Ashton himself. The two are going through a highly public divorce after an even more public marriage: they went everywhere together, tweeted each other constantly, and were [...]
Fighting CISPA, one domain name transfer at a time
Abine strives to be a beacon for privacy in an otherwise invasive sea of tracking. We try quite hard to make sure that our products reflect our values. One thing that we don’t have as much control over, however, is ensuring that the companies that we partner with also are aligned with these values. Today, [...]
Facebook Likes predict sexual orientation, religion, & more
A new study takes the saying “what you like says a lot about you” to a whole new level. Researchers from Cambridge University analyzed 58,000 Facebook profiles and found that a person’s Facebook Likes, which are public by default, are highly accurate in predicting personal, sometimes sensitive details about him or her. Simply analyzing a [...]