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How to Handle Facebook Privacy Settings for Your Kids
Editor’s note: This is a guest post, by Leslie Harris, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology. The explosive growth of the social media site Facebook now boasts a user demographic so diverse...
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Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue?
[This is a guest post by Heather West, Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology] It seems like every time I talk to people about privacy, there’s a feeling that younger users of...
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You Are Here: From the FTC for Your Kids
We’re from the government. We’re here to help. The Federal Trade Commission has launched a new site designed to help kids learn to protect their privacy, spot frauds and scams, and avoid identity...
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What Do Your Kids Know About Online Privacy?
It seems to be the common conception that young Americans don’t value their privacy, and information about themselves, in the same way or as much as older Americans do. However, as I’ve noted before on...
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The Facebook Privacy War: What is Personal Data?
There is a current campaign on the internet for users to not log into Facebook for a whole day on June 6th, 2010. This comes in response to the recent changes made by Facebook to their privacy...
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Learn About Privacy Issues in Networked: Carabella on the Run
Online privacy is a matter that we take pretty seriously, particularly when it comes to our kids, though we don’t all agree on where to draw the line. For example, some of us on GeekDad don’t use...
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Plug-ins for Privacy: PhZilla and Web of Trust
The Internet is not the private place it once was. There are many online identifiers that can be used to track individuals, from IP addresses to social networking profiles. Unfortunately, children are...
View ArticlePlug-ins for Privacy: Disconnect and Adblock
This month on Plug-ins for Privacy, I’ll be reviewing a couple of Chrome extensions. Chrome is a blazingly fast browser because it’s simple by design, but does it have the knobs and fiddly bits that...
View ArticleAl Franken vs. Apple and Google – No, It’s Not an SNL Skit
Today at 10AM Eastern catch the live webcast of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on privacy and mobile technology. As much as I’d love to see Al Franken conduct this hearing – any hearing –...
View ArticlePlug-ins for Privacy: Click n’ Clean and Bloody Vikings
Welcome to another edition of Plug-ins for Privacy! I’m featuring two very different plug-ins for this edition. One of these plug-ins makes standard browser controls more complete, and the other one…...
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How to Use PowerPoint to Strip GPS Location Data From Photos
Using your cell phone to snap photos on the fly is incredibly convenient. But you may not realize that your phone is capturing more than your kid’s adorable smile. It’s also recording your precise...
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Kincast Connects Families Through Video
When Raul Mujica started his new company, he did so to address a problem he experienced trying to keep his relatives engaged with his kids as they grew up on the opposite coast. Sending video through...
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