With the social distancing recommendations to combat the covid-19 pandemic, many people are being responsible by staying home and meeting online. This has lead to rapid growth in videoconferencing services like Zoom whose daily subscribers have increased from 10 million in December to over 200 million in just 3 monthes. Zoom is a videoconference market […]
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Uber has Privacy data problems that employees are exploiting to track politicians, celebrities, ex spouses, etc. Timeline of Uber Corruption Issues
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If you care about your privacy you really should consider DuckDuckGo as your search engine. You get the privacy benefits and you don’t sacrifice on quality as it is a full featured and powerful alternative to Google and other search engines. This article has been lightly edited from the original article on the hongkiat web
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If you are interested in protecting your privacy consider using Duckduckgo(The search engine that doesn’t track you) as your default search engine. It has some great features. Duckduckgo is also available as an app for your iPhone. You can read more about Duckduckgo in the wikipedia article.
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My intent is not to spoil your happiness with Google (I use some of their services too) but in case you are curious why I am questioning their business model and trustworthiness below are a few reference points. Google advertises themselves as the champion of openness but when it comes to their core business that
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On Daring Fireball, Gruber comments on Eric Schmidt’s response to Tim Cook’s latest Charlie Rose interview where Tim contrasted Apple vs. Google regarding protecting privacy. Eric’s response was that Tim Cook is misinformed about the security measures Google takes to protect user information from the government and crooks. Actually the issue Tim was talking about
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An effort to fix Internet confidentiality and security starts with defining the approach and who’s responsibility is it anyway. Unfortunately it is even less clear who to trust in the modern world.
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Jason O’Grady writes about 4 privacy settings you need to enable so you are not being tracked.
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Over on the Unclutterer blog a new contributor Deb Lee has done a review of the Unstuck iPad app. It is a free app that asks a lot of questions about how you are stuck with a problem and then offers some suggestions that might help you get unstuck. Deb is impressed with the app
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Privacy Payoff Book Review With the current news of Facebook’s IPO it is good to review selected chapters from a classic text on the importance of privacy by Ann Cavoukian the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Don Tapscott in the forward provides a reminder of the digital shadow that results from data generated from
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