ITworld - Thank You For Not Sharing

Four reasons why you should worry about online tracking (and advertising isn't one of them)

dantynan — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:57:07 +0000

Pay no attention to the advertisers behind the curtain. The real battle over Do Not Track is bigger and scarier than which ads you're shown online.

dantynan — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:02:05 +0000

Web tracking has become so widespread that nobody knows who all these companies are or what data they're collecting.

dantynan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:20:33 +0000

Foursquare fakes are being used to promote travel apps, and the tools to fight them are virtually nonexistent. Get ready for a GPS spamdemic.

dantynan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Web trackers are indeed following you -- though probably not as closely as one BBC reporter just did to me.

dantynan — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:25:36 +0000

An Annenberg Center survey reveals younger folks are more willing to share personal data -- but also more likely to demand something in return

dantynan — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:34:57 +0000

Don't like being tracked? Just opt out, says the ad industry -- and then makes that process as onerous as humanly possible.

dantynan — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:56:18 +0000

Want to pack off your CDs, stream music to any device, and buy or swap albums for a song? Murfie will be music to your ears.

dantynan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:05:03 +0000

Data miners like Acxiom know a lot about you -- or at least they think they do. We may soon find out exactly how much.

dantynan — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:21:40 +0000

Data aggregator RapLeaf is still collecting sensitive data about me -- despite the fact I opted out of their database more than two years ago.

dantynan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:01:02 +0000

Facebook has an ad problem but it has nothing to do with phones. It's that Facebook ads are rife with spammers and scammers.

dantynan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:49:08 +0000

A new California law gives consumers unprecedented access to the information companies collect about them. Too bad it won't work.

dantynan — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:07:23 +0000

Is your personal information worth more than the price of a cup of coffee? Yes and no.

dantynan — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:36:03 +0000

Spear phishing scammers are using photos of adorable kittens -- and information scraped from your Facebook profile -- to target you.

dantynan — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:43:51 +0000

It's hard to agree on a privacy standard when neither side can agree about the definition of four common English words.

dantynan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:16:28 +0000

More than 1,300 tracking companies are now following us across the Web. But who they are and what they know is a mystery to most.