Thank You For Not Sharing

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Thank You For Not Sharing (TY4NS) is about your personal privacy and how it's being systematically dismantled by Facebook, Twitter, Google, geo-tracking services, wireless companies, the NSA, your boss, Chinese spies, evil Ukranian botnets, and that creepy guy in the cubicle down the hall. Along with a fair amount of whining, it will offer useful advice about what you should and shouldn't share online, why you should care, and what you can do about getting some of your privacy back before it's too late (and no, it's not too late -- yet).

by Dan Tynan

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Author Dan Tynan has been writing about Internet privacy for the last 3,247 years. He wrote a book on the topic for O'Reilly Media (Computer Privacy Annoyances, now available for only $15.56 at Amazon -- order yours today) and edited a series of articles on Net privacy for PC World that were finalists for a National Magazine Award. During his spare time he is part of the dynamic duo behind eSarcasm, the not-yet-award-winning geek humor site he tends along with JR Raphael.

Yes Virginia, Facebook does have a 'Dislike' button (of a sort)

Posted Aug 19, 2010 - 06:06 pm

In our last episode of TY4NS, I talked about the Facebook Dislike Button scam and how FB could use a real Dislike button for curmudgeons such as myself.
- Tweet
- Facebook, scams
Yes, Mr. Zuckerberg, people do care about their privacy

Posted Feb 26, 2012 - 12:16 pm

Memo to the “privacy is dead, get over it” crowd: You’re in the minority.
- Tweet
- Facebook, MySpace
Yes, Mr. Zuckerberg, we do care about privacy

Posted Sep 16, 2010 - 11:37 am

Privacy is dead, get over it. Sharing is the new social norm. If you're doing something you don't want others to know about, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
- Tweet
- Facebook, Google
Yo, Facebook: Delete <i>this</i>

Posted Jun 13, 2010 - 01:26 am

Let me start by paraphrasing the eminently wise Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) from “Burn Notice”: “You know bloggers. Bunch of bitchy little girls.”
- Tweet
- Facebook, privacy
Your face: Starring in a Facebook ad near you

Posted Mar 22, 2011 - 12:51 pm

Remember back in January when Facebook announced its new plan to use your Likes in “sponsored stories”? (See “Facebook ads use your face for free.”) Well, they’re heeeeeerrrre.
Your location data is no more private than the color of your car, says Federal judge

Posted Aug 15, 2012 - 05:25 pm

The courts giveth location privacy, and the courts taketh it away.
Your location privacy is up for grabs

Posted Mar 22, 2010 - 12:23 pm

Forget FourSquare. Twitter and Facebook location updates? Feh. Gowalla can go suck eggs. The real action in location will be in direct-to-mobile marketing, according to an interesting article by AdAge's Kunar Patel. He writes:

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