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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls

Crave Facebook is gearing up for a major revamp of its privacy settings. The social network's privacy controls had become so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 ... Read story »

Helping the 'Great Escape': Interview with CEO of Hotspot Shield

Blogs  One of the most popular foreign web services used in China is not a website but a VPN, namely Hotspot Shield. With 2009 having been such a miserable year for freedom on ... Read story »

How to fix Facebook's new privacy settings

Crave How Facebook said good morning. When logging in to Facebook recently, I, like millions of other people, got the directive to update my privacy settings to fit in to the ... Read story »

Group seeks blinders on Google Street View in Japan

Crave Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Citing privacy concerns, a group of Japanese lawyers and professors have asked Google to shut down its Street View feature of Google Maps in ... Read story »

Google fights controversy with cute in Japan

Blogs Some of you may remember a video I posted a few months ago, created by Google Japan to promote its Chrome browser. It's really a testament to how much faith Google ... Read story »

USB keypad for the paranoid

Crave If you are constantly paranoid about the people around you stealing your passwords, this USB device is probably what you need. Detached numeric keypads are common, but the USB Privacy ... Read story »

Privacy in Bolehland means...

Blogs ... people can take naked pictures of you and get off scott-free (ABSOLUTELY no pun intended there). Originally, my post today was going to be on the subject of my Week ... Read story »

Firefox 3.1 to gain modicum of privacy

Crave Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was ... Read story »

Indonesia's blunder on privacy

Blogs Amid concerns about privacy and security on the Internet, the Indonesian Ministry of Education recently put up a detailed database of students online and in downloadable files. There are at least ... Read story »

Some online privacy horror stories to keep you Net geeks awake at night

Blogs With the advent of social media and the ability to connect to thousands upon thousands of people we don't really know, it becomes inevitable that people we'd rather not have any ... Read story »

English-speakers more at risk of identity fraud

Crave People in English-speaking countries are targeted for identity fraud at twice the rate of many Europeans, according to a new study released by PayPal on Wednesday. Ten percent of online shoppers ... Read story »

iPhone iSpy? Hacker says device captures it all

Crave The iPhone is recording everything users see and do on their devices for caching purposes, an iPhone hacker says. The device records screenshots of a user's most recent action so that ... Read story »

Tiger will be back roaring again

Blogs Tiger Woods, the world's greatest golf player has chosen the web as his venue to explain his side as to what really is happening to him and to his family.The scandal ... Read story »

Iran telecom company sold

Blogs In an US$8 billion deal, the majority shares of Iran state-owned telecommunicatons company sold to a private consortium yesterday. It has been the largest transaction in the history of Tehran stock ... Read story »

Google launches Street View in Taiwan: Let's take a tour!

Blogs A few days ago Google launched the controversial Street View feature in Google Maps here in Taiwan. Some privacy experts around the world are concerned that giving such close access will... ... Read story »

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