Thank You For Not Sharing

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.

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Posted Sep 06, 2010 - 11:03 am

The problem with stalking people on Facebook is that it's too much damned work. But a new 'Subscribe to person' feature Facebook is testing may make it much easier.
Facebook, privacy
Privacy been violated? Call the PRC

Posted Jan 03, 2012 - 07:00 am

Odds are your personal privacy gets violated at least once a day.
Facebook, FTC
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Looking for love in all the wrong faces? Bang With Friends can provide that missing love connection.
bang with friends, bangin'
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Posted Dec 27, 2012 - 07:00 am

2013 was the year we finally got what we all deserve: Real privacy rights across the Net. It was long overdue.
2013, 2013 predictions
Hollywood movies: Coming to a Facebook page near you

Posted Mar 08, 2011 - 06:45 pm

So I watched The Dark Knight again today. That makes viewing #4, I think. The only difference between this viewing and the first three is that this time I did it on Facebook.
privacy, social media
Q&A: Privacy pioneer Ray Everett

Posted Nov 23, 2012 - 02:43 pm

Everyone who’s been in the Internet privacy game a while knows Ray Everett. I first met Ray in the late 1990s when I was writing about the scourge of email spam and Everett was the co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, which was working hard to pass anti-spam legislation.
advertising, DNT
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Posted Mar 29, 2012 - 02:19 pm

What you say and do on social media can be used against you in a court of law. Don’t believe it? You may soon find yourself wearing an attractive orange jump suit or living out of a suitcase in a residential motel.
anthony weiner, divorce
Follow the shoppers, follow the money

Posted Jan 31, 2013 - 06:32 pm

Your favorite stores and restaurants are using your phone's Bluetooth to watch you shop. Part III of my series on retail tracking.
bluetooth, bt
We know what UDID last summer

Posted Sep 05, 2012 - 09:42 pm

This much we know: Earlier this week hackers from the Anonymous offshoot Antisec posted exactly one million and one unique Apple IDs online, along with the names of the devices and a few tidbits of personal information about their
anonymous, AntiSec
2011: The year Facebook killed Google

Posted Dec 30, 2011 - 09:06 am

I have to admit it: I get a queasy voyeuristic feeling in my gut when I see what my friends are reading on the Washington or Huffington Posts, watching on YouTube, or listening to on Spotify. This whole “frictionless sharing” business makes me uneasy.
content discovery, Facebook

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