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Cyveillance Revisited

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

A few years back, I wrote the article, “Who Is Cyveillance And Why Should You Care?” and it’s been a fairly popular post here at Security & Privacy. Some weeks ago, I received an email about the article from a “Ray M.” Ray writes,

“Regarding:
http://secpriv.com/who-is-cyveillance-and-why-should-you-care
I will try and keep this as professional as possible. This organization [...]

Google Offers Encrypted Search

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Ever wonder if your ISP might be spying on you and intercepting your traffic? Well now you can put your paranoid self to rest as far as your ISP knowing what search terms you are searching on in Google.
Although your search terms might remain a secret between Google and you, technically speaking your ISP (and [...]

Delete Facebook Part II

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

I just came across an interesting rant by Dan Yoder entitled “10 Reasons to Delete Your Facebook Account.” As well as privacy concerns, Yoder even mentions a suspicion about the ethics of Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerburg.
“Facebook’s CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior. From the very
beginning of Facebook’s existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg’s
ethics. [...]

Delete Facebook

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

May 19, 2010
I deactivated my Facebook profile on March 8, 2010. Admittedly, there are times I miss it – especially to play Lexulous. But Facebook became a major distraction for me in many different ways. There were times I was making Lexulous moves when I should have been working. There were times when things that [...]

The Problem With Privacy

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Google maps! Who today lives without them when they are going to be traveling to a destination that they’ve never driven before? I use google maps all the time and have found it to be a very accurate way to plan my trip by shortest distance or shortest time, and Google will also provide me [...]

Is Facebook Breaking Privacy Laws?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I just logged off the popular and well known “Social Networking” site, Facebook after playing some Scrabulous moves with some of my friends. There is no doubt that Facebook can be a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances and some of the third party applications such as Scrabulous are popular [...]