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Ask.com Promotes Privacy With The “AskEraser”


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 1 Comment

To those who are worried that their Google searches will haunt them, Ask.com has launched a tool that will actually anonymize search data. Ask.com and other major search engines like Google, ...

Speak Poorly Against AT&T and They Will Drop You


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 7 Comments

Ok, AT&T has made it to my list of most evil corporations. On their new customer Terms of Service agreement for AT&T reserves the right to terminate your connection ...

Federal Income Tax… not actually a law… completely optional


I'm shocked to discover this, but I'm a huge documentary buff, I love them... while browsing a certain online video site I stumbled upon one that literally rocked my world. Determined ...

Watch Out For Trademark Infringement Emails and How To Protect Yourself


Posted in Privacy by Dan | Comments Off

Being a blogger it is becoming more and more common to see C&D notices from companies. For people who have never seen a C&D those letters are quite scary ...

Welcome Back To College: Here is What Your School Will Do To You If You Fileshare


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 5 Comments

Ah, It's September and the Coeds are filling the dorms - but this year besides students having to deal with their depressed schizophrenic emo pyromaniac roommate that loves watching people ...

How To Disappear From Search Engines


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 1 Comment

Like it or not your personal information is on the internet, but not many people know they can actually remove it. Most directories use Acxiom to populate their databases. ...

Do you have a Facebook? The CIA Knows


Posted in Digest, Privacy by Jon | 8 Comments

As a willful citizen of the web 2.0 *yawn* continuum, there is a lot of information about myself all over the net. Publications, photos, articles; they’re all there for ...

How Private Is Your Data on Your Search Engine


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 1 Comment

I give Google a very hard time regarding their stance on user privacy and what they will do with your personally identifiable data. Instead of beating up the reigning ...

Best Place to Steal Personal Information? Try The IRS!


Posted in News, Privacy by Dan | Comments Off

60% of surveyed IRS employees easily gave up personal and confidential information about individuals. IRS employees were found to be easily socially engineered into giving up information that could ...

GMail Accounts Hacked, Kinda


Posted in Privacy by Dan | 5 Comments

At a Defcon keynote Robert Graham showed by sniffing traffic and stealing cookies you can easily hack sombodies GMail account. The demonstration highlights how easy unsecure network traffic can make for ...

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