So says an article on Chicagotribune.com in which they point out what should be obvious to anyone. Now that social media such as facebook, myspace, twitter and dozens more are such a huge part of most people’s lives, the feds are spending more and more time watching them. Not only that but they’re also creating […]
If at any point you had the idea that Obama was some kind of a champion of human rights and civil liberties, you might want to check this piece on Wired and think again. Not only does he come out in favor of requiring DNA testing for everybody that’s arrested for any reason. He’s also […]
According to a story on ITnews there’s some people arguing that it’s time to require a kind of “internet drivers license” before allowing people to go online for the first time. Australia’s leading criminologist thinks online scams have escalated to such a point that first-time users of computers should have to earn a licence to […]
By now I think that probably most people online these days knows about cookies. That they’re little text files that allows a website to store up to 4k of information on your computer. They allow websites to recognize you when you come back, remember your login information and preferences settings and so on. Cookies are […]
According to a recent Slashdot article it very well might be. Ubuntu recently released a new extension to Firefox alpha 3 called “Multisearch”. The first thing that I don’t like about it is that it installs automatically without any warning about potential privacy problems. For me that’s a deal-breaker all by itself. Another thing that […]