Scaling the Great Fire Wall one donation at a time
The United States government is set to donate 1.5 million dollars to a Falun Gong affiliated Internet freedom organization, Global Internet Freedom Consortium (CIFG), a recent story on the BBC has claimed. CIFG provides free technologies to people living within Internet repressing states, allowing users to circumnavigate censor code and access outlawed sites. [linebreak] China […]
Knowing what they don’t want others to know
A recent development in Internet openness by a major search engine may forever change the partnership of secrecy between state searches and net giants. Google recently published a list of government requests for information and pages to be censored from the Internet. This list includes over 40 countries writes the BBC, with Brazil leading the […]
Thieves follow Twitter too
If you’re leaving your home for the weekend and are thinking about tweeting it you might want to reconsider that it is not only your friends who are savvy on your unprotected castle. There is a website out there, PleaseRobMe.com, that greets visitors with the following: “listing all those empty homes out there.” [linebreak] It […]
Startpage – the new privacy engine pits speed versus need
Web users looking for greater privacy in their web browsing have a new search engine to choose from, Startpage. Operating as an Internet middleman, the engine keeps no records of searchers and filters queries through its own scrambler, so-to-speak, before passing the information to the anonymous user. The media frenzy surrounding China’s state surveillance of […]
Hacking Row Continues – Yahoo joins the gallery
As this row enters its second week, I wonder when, or if, the teeth of Google will ever show and their words turn to action. Everyone from Yahoo to the US government has denounced the overuse of China’s spy ware on American based search engines, but little has been done in terms of censuring the […]
Google threatens to leave China over hacking
No one likes having someone read over his or her shoulder. While it most often amounts to little more than an annoyance and a sour ‘excuse me’, when that reading involves personal information or the information of people at risk, there is need for concern. This past week the BBC revealed that several web addresses […]
Planning to run for political office? Better be squeaky clean…
That’s a lesson that Vancouver NDP candidate Ray Lam learned the hard way when his private Facebook photos were made public. On the one hand, it seems that Facebook privacy settings may not be enough to keep private what you may not want to share beyond your friends. On the other hand, when you are […]
Google Never Forgets
Sadly, that’s the message in a recent blog post by Seth Godin: Personal Branding in the Age of Google. He recounts an all too familiar tale of potential employer digging up the dirt on potential employees… How do you avoid this? Live like a saint (or almost) or review these tutorial pages: Employers Dig For […]
Who Owns Your Data?
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