Privacy Blog March Archive

The Messy Trail of Google Buzz and Other Social Networking Sites

03/18/10 06:40

The latest social networking integration of Google called Buzz has been receiving series after series of criticism for exposing one's private information such as e-mail and integrating it ala-twitter. Critics and privacy-conscious users has flamed Google and other social networking websites for changing its policies without it user's consent and thus creating a big privacy mess. Read more about this here:

Link: One Analysis of the Google Buzz Mess - Bits Blog - NYTi

Practical Internet Privacy Tips

Once, I was told of a story of a man who was so concerned about his Internet privacy that he chose to have different passwords for each of his online accounts. You can bet that he was such a privacy advocate because it's a bore having to remember different passwords for each of his online accounts. The problem was that he was not smart enough to remember. Instead of remembering or storing it somewhere safe, he wrote everything on a Post-It note and stuck this to his computer monitor, in full view of everyone.

Read more: Practical Internet Privacy Tips [click]

Home Surveillance with Dropcam

When you out for the weekend, one of the worries that may occur to you is the safety of your house from evil elements like burglars and robbers.

Read more: Home Surveillance with Dropcam [click]

Black Boxes in Cars

The Event Data Recorders (EDR) or more commonly known as black boxes, which is mostly used in airplanes, might also be utilized in all vehicle in the near future.

Read more: Black Boxes in Cars [click]

Obama Extends Patriotic Act

The United States of America is one of the world's most powerful country. A country seen by other countries as the land of promises or the land of milk and honey. This is probably the reason why many are interested in it. Interest which could even be destruction of the said country.

Read more: Obama Extends Patriotic Act [click]

Medical Identity Theft

If you think only your credit cards and privilege cards can be used by people who steal other people's identity at your expense, think again. Recent studies shows that medical identity theft or fraud is actually hugely happening in many parts of the world, especially in the US.

Read more: Medical Identity Theft [click]

Google faces several privacy lawsuits

People say that it's lonely at the top. I say that it is not lonely. I say that when you are at the top, you also become a center of attraction and criticism. That's just like how life goes.

Read more: Google faces several privacy lawsuits [click]