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.

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

Posted May 07, 2013 - 03:57 pm

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.
Who is tracking you across the Web? Even the ad industry doesn’t know

Posted May 01, 2013 - 04:02 pm

Web tracking has become so widespread that nobody knows who all these companies are or what data they're collecting.
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- IT Management, ad age, ad week
Faking it on Foursquare: Beware of bogus beauties bearing spam

Posted Apr 29, 2013 - 10:20 am

Foursquare fakes are being used to promote travel apps, and the tools to fight them are virtually nonexistent. Get ready for a GPS spamdemic.
Help, I'm being stalked by the BBC (and also online advertisers)

Posted Apr 24, 2013 - 07:00 am

Web trackers are indeed following you -- though probably not as closely as one BBC reporter just did to me.
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- IT Management, advertising, BBC
Millennials do care about Internet privacy, they’re just smarter about it

Posted Apr 22, 2013 - 03:25 pm

An Annenberg Center survey reveals younger folks are more willing to share personal data -- but also more likely to demand something in return
Why opt out is such a cop out

Posted Apr 18, 2013 - 05:34 pm

Don't like being tracked? Just opt out, says the ad industry -- and then makes that process as onerous as humanly possible.
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- IT Management, abine, advertising
Need a music fix? Tune into Murfie

Posted Apr 15, 2013 - 04:56 pm

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.
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- IT Management, Amazon, Apple
Further adventures in data mining, Or welcome to my Lear Jet lifestyle

Posted Apr 11, 2013 - 05:05 pm

Data miners like Acxiom know a lot about you -- or at least they think they do. We may soon find out exactly how much.
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- IT Management, acxiom, big data
Why is RapLeaf still tracking me across the Web?

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 06:21 pm

Data aggregator RapLeaf is still collecting sensitive data about me -- despite the fact I opted out of their database more than two years ago.
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- IT Management, data, do not track
Facebook’s new ‘Home’ won’t solve its advertising problem

Posted Apr 05, 2013 - 05:01 pm

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

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