Over the last 9 years Facebook has grown from a small social networking site originally intended for college students into a worldwide platform that is now used not only by privat...
The privacy and censorship conscious among us are certainly familiar with Tor. Short for “The Onion Router,” Tor is a free tool that keeps a user’s Web browsing private and anonym...
A group of Internet activists and privacy advocates penned an open letter to Microsoft earlier this year urging the company to shed light on just how confidential the conversation...
If we’re to believe all the headlines this week, then it appears that the one-time search giant Google has finally shipped off developer-models of Google Glass – their oft-m...
BlackBerry’s preeminent Z10 smartphone (and other devices running the BlackBerry operating system beyond version 4.5 for that matter) has a feature built-into its messaging servic...
Facebook’s Like button practically begs to be clicked. It’s easy to “like” an innocuous post that pops in up in your News Feed, or send some Like Love to a band, political or soci...
While people remain really willing to share details of their lives via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus, the chief privacy officers at those compan...
Hardly a month seems to pass that Facebook doesn’t scare the wits out of privacy advocates, and Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking behemoth may have just created its biggest flap...
Every couple of months, seemingly, the world gets up in arms about the latest changes to Facebook’s privacy policy. But Facebook isn’t the only social media site that collects and...
Google’s social networking site, Google+, continues to grow in popularity. But as with all social media sites, over-sharing your personal information is easy to do on Google+. Use...