Twitter cleans up the mess with deleted tweets in search results
TechCrunch has reported that Twitter has finally made the required changes to enhance the privacy of the users on the service.
Twitter has been known to have a major bug in the recent months. If you tweeted something only to realize that it was a [...]
Facebook to offer more privacy features in the future
Web’s most popular social network Facebook has announced that they would now give their users more control over the information that is shared with third party applications.
This was mostly in response to the demands made by Canadian privacy bodies.
As of now, users do not [...]
Social networks are excellent information source for criminals
Internet privacy is becoming more and more important today with the growing popularity of social networks.
We do not think twice before announcing on a blog or a social network that we are going on a vacation or out of town.
This information can easily be used by criminals [...]
Rosemary Port to sue Google for revealing her identity
Rosemary Port was recently revealed as the blogger behind the Skanks in NYC blog which made news after Google was forced by the courts to release the detail of the person operating it.
Port has now announced her decision to sue the search engine giant. Manhattan Supreme [...]
McAfee Cybercrime Response Unit launched
Security software maker McAfee has announced the launch of a new service named Cybercrime Response Unit.
The company describes this new service as: “an online help center designed to assist victims of computer crime and provide information on how to avoid becoming a victim.”
The service provides help in several ways including:
Determine [...]
IPREDator public launch coming up!
IPREDator is a new service that is going to be soon available for public.
IPREDator would offer a VPN account to users who are interested in having a secure connection for peer to peer downloads.
This service would cost about 5 EUR a month.
The developers promise that they are not going to [...]
Deleting your Facebook Account
In case you want to get rid of the hassles that comes with staying a member of a social network like Facebook which continues to remain in controversies related to their privacy policies… Here is a link to delete your account.
This seems to be the safest way to get the account [...]
Facebook back to old ToS as it asks for user feedback
Social networking service Facebook has reverted back to its previous Terms Of Service as they are now asking for user feedback on their new policies.
The service had updated the terms and conditions recently but they have come under massive criticism.
Consumerist.com started the [...]
Picasa Web Albums gains more privacy features
If you are a Picasa Web user, you would like this new feature.
Google has added additional privacy features which truly makes an album private.
Previous options hid the albums from searches but the link to the album was still accessible to anyone.
Newer options allow the user to [...]
Google to fix privacy related issues in Google Chrome
Google Chrome is the latest entry into the web browsers market and it has impressed a lot of web users.
However, some of the Chrome’s features have been criticized by privacy advocates as they send too much data to the company.
For example, whenever a user enters any keyword [...]
