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How To: Lotame, Online Tracking, and Your Privacy
Lotame is a behavior targeter focused on social networks, like Facebook. The information that Lotame and other similar companies gather...
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How To: eXelate, Online Tracking, and Your Privacy
eXelate Media is a company that collects and sells web data on consumers. EXelate has been criticized for linking web-surfing...
How To: File Sharing Best Practices
File sharing is the process of sharing computer data or space in a computer network. It also can mean sharing...
How To: Understanding the Network Advertising Initiative and How to Opt Out
The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) develops standards for online advertising. It is an industry trade group which was formed in...
How To: Google Search Results and Your Privacy
Like all search engines, Google’s search results contain information that is publicly available on the Internet. Google cannot remove content...
How To: Configuring Your Firewall for Optimal Security
Firewall software is a group of security protocols designed to keep malicious code and hackers out of your computer. A...
How To: Installing Patches and Automating Updates
Patches are software that fix problems or issues with a computer program. This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs,...
Ask the Expert: What You Should Know About Google’s Privacy Policies
Google’s new privacy policy changes have many privacy advocates up in arms. It begs the question: does our personal information belong to us or the corporations that collect it? Instead of being forced to adhere to these data collection rules in order to use a popular product, shouldn’t we insist that companies give us the option to allow or deny them permission to track and store our personal information? What happens if hackers get ahold of this information?
Read on for more information about Google’s new privacy policies.
Privacy on Facebook Takes Two Huge Hits
If you care about Facebook using your personal information in their advertisements, and want to opt out, check out this article. It explains a few new worries with the social media giant, including its “social ads” program.
How To: Job Search Sites and Your Privacy
Make sure you protect your privacy while conducting an online job search. The following sections describe what steps you can...
How To: Managing Your Email Security
Most if not all of us use email as our primary means of communication. Unfortunately, email accounts are also highly...
How To: Managing Your Foursquare Security
Anytime we use any social networking website such as Facebook, we give up some of our privacy. But this is...
