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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IT Management, Facebook ads, facebook android app
Having the ‘Right to Know’ doesn’t mean you actually will know

Posted Apr 03, 2013 - 06:49 pm

A new California law gives consumers unprecedented access to the information companies collect about them. Too bad it won't work.
IT Management, advertising tracking, anonymity
When it comes to privacy, we’re all just a little bit nuts

Posted Apr 01, 2013 - 05:07 pm

Is your personal information worth more than the price of a cup of coffee? Yes and no.
IT Management, alessandro acquisti, DNT
Your social network profiles are like catnip to cyber crooks

Posted Mar 28, 2013 - 01:36 pm

Spear phishing scammers are using photos of adorable kittens -- and information scraped from your Facebook profile -- to target you.
IT Management
Four reasons why Do Not Track turned into Do Not Trust

Posted Mar 26, 2013 - 04:43 pm

It's hard to agree on a privacy standard when neither side can agree about the definition of four common English words.
IT Management, abine, DNT
Web trackers are totally out of control

Posted Mar 21, 2013 - 01:16 pm

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.
IT Management, ads are stalking me, blue kai

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