MAY, 2010
Facebook and Privacy: What a Mess
JR Raphael, PC World
May 13, 2010 3:30 pm
 Facebook has just unveiled a new set of user controls, but it isn't likely to do much in the way of calming anger about the social network's privacy policies.
The new controls, announced at the official Facebook blog on Thursday, revolve around Facebook security. One new setting allows you to receive login notifications anytime someone accesses your Facebook account from an unknown device; another provides supplemental security questions during "suspicious logins."
Neither, however, does anything to fix the massive mess with how Facebook is handling your personal information.
Facebook Privacy: A Formal Warning
 Facebook, suffice it to say, isn't exactly feeling the universal "like" these days.
Amidst a brewing backlash against the social network and the privacy labyrinth it's created, the company is now getting an unpleasant poke from European privacy ... >> full
posted by STEPHEN SEABRON May 20, 2010 2:41 PM General comments (0)
JANUARY, 2010
Erik Larkin
Jan 29, 2010 11:04 am
The specific combination of mundane information such as your plugins and system fonts can be used to create a "fingerprint" for your browser that could potentially uniquely identify you.
To showcase that potential, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is running a creative experiment called Panopticlick. Visiting the site reads the technical data provided by your browser to any site it visits, such as its program type and version, installed plugins, system fonts and whether it accepts cookies. By combining all that data, the site creates a fingerprint for your browser.
My own browser's fingerprint is unique so far out of 221,352 visitors, as is Bruce Schneier's. The major identifying factors look like my list of browser plugin details and my particular system fonts, which are both shared by only one out of every 110,676 browsers (which I believe means that ... >> full
posted by STEPHEN SEABRON January 29, 2010 1:14 PM General comments (0)
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