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How To: Managing Your BlackBerry Security
The BlackBerry contains a number of options you can set to help maximize the safety and security of your BlackBerry....
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How To: Managing Your Android Security
Several popular Android apps regularly share your location and critical phone data such as your phone number with advertisers and...
How To: Managing Your iPhone Security
Smartphones, like the iPhone, have become increasingly important to our modern lives, and accessing account and professional content is shifting...
Why Your Facebook Chats are Being Monitored
What you say in your private chats and messages on Facebook may not be as private as you think. According to a recent report from Reuters, the social media giant employs a mums-the-word technology that scans posts and chats for criminal activity. If something is fishy, the content is flagged and then read by an employee who will access the conversation and call the police, if necessary.
Find out why.
How To: Managing Your Palm OS Security
The following sections contain some simple things you can do to ensure your Palm security. Assign a Password First, assign...
How To: Managing Your Yahoo Buzz Privacy Settings
Yahoo Buzz allows you to let people know what stories you think are important and therefore worth sharing. So whatever you do in Buzz (buzz a story up or down, post comments about a buzzed story, etc.) is public, unless you change your Buzz Activity setting to private.
How To: BlueKai, Online Tracking, and Your Privacy
BlueKai is an online marketing firm that provides data to marketers, ad networks and publishers. This data is used to...
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...
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: 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...
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.
