With the upcoming launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire just a month away, Congress is launching an investigation into the data being collected by the Silk browser and what Amazon plans to do with it.
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Simon Perry’s new ‘FishBarrel’ plugin automates the process of reporting misleading claims made on quacks’ websites to the [UK] Advertising Standards Authority and Trading Standards.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading US-based civil liberties group defending internet users rights in the digital world. The following is an important browsing security feature that Firefox browser users can greatly benefit from.
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To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet. A comprehensive and very useful explanation of this can be found in a New York Times article from May 2010. In addition, instructions on how to conceal your full birth date is provided.
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Unlike corporate e-mail accounts, however, social networking isn’t clearly of the working world. While it is publicly accessible, many users see it as an informal and intimate form of communication. And well-documented confusion over privacy settings means that some information is being made public without users’ knowledge.
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