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Want privacy on Twitter? Use Firefox

Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:36 am

True privacy can be hard to come by in the socially enabled online world, but Twitter on Thursday announced that it has joined Firefox maker Mozilla in taking a big step forward for users.
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The FTC’s privacy recommendations: Too little, too late

Posted March 27, 2012 - 12:10 pm

The good news: The Feds have finally weighed in on Do Not Track and other privacy threats. The bad news: The wimps won.
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Welcome to Google Data Armageddon

Posted March 1, 2012 - 12:38 pm

G Day is upon us, and with it Google's new all-in-one privacy policy. Here's a tool to make your searches a wee bit more private.
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FAQ: What Google's 'Do Not Track' move means

Posted February 25, 2012 - 7:20 am

As the White House pushed a privacy bill of rights and readied online privacy legislation for Congress, Google decided on Thursday to get behind "Do Not Track" technology. Here's where things stand.
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White House privacy rights bill is a beginning, not an end

Posted February 23, 2012 - 1:59 pm

Free at last? Not exactly. A consumer privacy bill of rights is long overdue, but anything real will require Congressional action -- an oxymoron if ever there was one.
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Just how bad is online tracking?

Posted February 16, 2012 - 7:06 pm

Web tracking companies say anonymous tracking is harmless. What's the real story? Here are two scenarios where online tracking can come back to bite you.
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The Ghostery in the machine: Tracking the trackers

Posted February 14, 2012 - 3:24 pm

Ghostery says it's better to know who's tracking you across the Web than to simply block all of them. What do you think?
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Will Do Not Track kill the 'free' Internet?

Posted February 12, 2012 - 1:42 pm

Some folks say Do Not Track will kill off Internet advertising and cause some Web sites to die off or be forced to charge for content. I'm not buying it.
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How to kill Web trackers dead

Posted February 9, 2012 - 11:55 am

Abine's DoNotTrackPlus browser plug-in stops trackers in their tracks -- and it's free. My new Web mantra: Don't track me, bro.
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Everything you always wanted to know about Web tracking (but were too paranoid to ask)

Posted November 3, 2011 - 5:36 pm

Who is tracking you online and what do they want? The answers aren't obvious. Take this True/False quiz to find out how much you really know about Web tracking.
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How to track who's tracking you across the Web

Posted November 1, 2011 - 3:23 pm

It's not paranoia -- you really are being followed across the Web. A cool tool called Collusion shows you who's doing it.
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Sex, drugs, and Internet advertising

Posted October 13, 2011 - 11:18 am

Sites like YouTube, Twitter, and OkCupid are sharing your username with Web advertisers -- and often a lot more. So much for 'anonymous' tracking.
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Obey Do Not Track? Forget it. Now advertisers are using zombie super cookies

Posted August 19, 2011 - 12:00 am

It has become a lesser worry that studies show even advertisers friendly to Do Not Track features in browsers are ignoring the wishes of users. Some are practically taking DNA samples.
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Privacy pirates: Self regulation is a sinking ship

Posted August 9, 2011 - 2:34 pm

When it comes to the online ad industry, self regulation is a bit like the Pirate’s Code in all those Johnny Depp movies: They’re really more like guidelines that can be broken whenever the script calls for it.
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Senator says he will introduce do-not-track bill

Posted May 6, 2011 - 3:30 pm

A U.S. senator says he plans to introduce an online do-not-track bill.
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Five big problems with that new Privacy Bill of Rights

Posted April 13, 2011 - 2:25 pm

The new Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights aims to protect your privacy from evil data brokers. Unfortunately, it contains more wrongs than rights.
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Mozilla Do Not Track attracts irrelevant support from 'advertisers'

Posted April 6, 2011 - 9:34 am

Mozilla announced its first supporters for Do Not Track; one isn't an advertiser, the other isn't committed.
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Can your browser really stop sites from tracking you?

Posted March 21, 2011 - 12:15 pm

Something like this has happened to all of us lately: You shop for a watch for a friend's birthday and for a week afterwards every site you visit features ads for watches. It seems like everyone from Google on down is tracking where we go and what we do on the web and using that information to send us targeted advertisements.
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Why browser 'do not track' features will not work

Posted February 10, 2011 - 10:24 pm

Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google have each developed some sort of "do not track" feature for their respective Web browsers. The intent is good, but each solution is fundamentally flawed and is unlikely to work very well in the real world.
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Do not track: Is government intervention necessary?

Posted January 28, 2011 - 3:03 pm

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission made clear it endorses an online do-not-track tool, while Republican lawmakers and tech companies think a congressional mandate is unnecessary.
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Browsers to defend privacy where feds won't

Posted January 24, 2011 - 5:20 pm

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are competing to see who can come out with do-not-track features in browsers first; now about halting tracking at its source.
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'Do not track' coming to Firefox 4

Posted December 21, 2010 - 6:38 pm

Hard on the heels of Microsoft's decision to offer "do not track" functionality in its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser comes word that Mozilla is planning a similar move for its Firefox 4.
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Do not track browser tool is just permission-less marketing

Posted December 10, 2010 - 6:31 pm

Gibbs isn't impressed by the FTC's proposal
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FTC calls for 'do not track' browser button

Posted December 8, 2010 - 5:44 pm

The FTC wants a new framework to address privacy challenges, including a "do not track" setting so consumers can choose whether to let entities collect data regarding their online searching and browsing activities.
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Microsoft promises to save users from tracking, Java malware, Ballmer videos

Posted December 8, 2010 - 11:54 am

Microsoft is beating the FTC to the punch by announcing plans for a do-not-track function for IE9, and extending Security Essentials track record with a Java tool, but no release date.
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