If we thought Google+ vs Facebook was about competing to enhance control over your online privacy, maybe we need to think again. Over the last 96 hours or so, there have been a lot of reports of Google enforcing its policy (oh-so-cleverly named “community standards”) that users of G+ need to use their real name. [...]
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Heads Up, Geeks and Gamers: Bioware is the Latest Data Breach Victim
It’s a hard life being a gamer nowadays with all these data breaches: first Epsilon, then Playstation Network, and now Bioware. The well-loved gaming company broke news of the breach this morning to their registered users, warning that “hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates [...]
Your Digital Afterlife: 6 Steps You Need To Take Today To Manage Your Cyber Assets When You Are Gone
Our digital footprint will live on when we’re gone. Even though we’ve got another 35 years until the singularity (or so says Raymond Kurzweil), all of us will experience a sort of afterlife through our Facebook posts, tweets, article comments, email accounts, online games, and blogs, a trail that grows longer and more complex as [...]
Michael Arrington is so Naive
Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch founder and and technology muckraker extraordinaire, has just put Facebook over the coals for some anti-Google PR, and he’s acting as if he’s surprised to see such aggressive and underhanded behavior from Facebook. Michael’s naive. He doesn’t understand how threatening Facebook really is. Facebook’s behavior threatens everyone, including you. Although Facebook [...]
Masked Emails: An Easy Way to Protect Yourself from the Next Big Data Breach
First Epsilon, then Playstation Network (PSN)…the question isn’t whether another big breach will happen; it’s when. But even if big tech corporations like Sony can’t protect your data, you can protect it yourself with a simple trick. Hackers stole the info from over 100 million accounts in two separate data breaches, 77 million on Playstation [...]