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Facebook Drops Privacy Setting; Army Prepping Iron Man Armor; Foxconn Forces Overtime

2013-10-11 18:34:02| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

From Facebook's privacy tweak to the Army's new Iron Man-like tactical assault suit, here's what you missed yesterday.

3 essential techniques to protect your online privacy

2013-10-09 17:32:22| InfoWorld: Top News

The Web is a wild place, with more than the NSA potentially out to get you. With the so-called six strikes antipiracy initiative in full effect, you never know if Hollywood is monitoring your peer-to-peer activity. Then there are the malicious hackers trying to reset email, Facebook, and Twitter passwords.

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Google modifies Analytics in EU-wide privacy concession

2013-10-07 17:49:54| InfoWorld: Top News

Following mounting pressure from data protection agencies (DPAs) in different European countries, Google has started offering so-called data processing agreements to websites using its Google Analytics suite in the European Union, Iceland, Norway or Switzerland. Up to now Google did not provide such contracts because it maintains that it does not process personal data. Since 2011 it has offered such agreements only in Germany, after demands from the German DPA.

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Former Microsoft privacy adviser: 'I don't trust Microsoft now'

2013-10-01 14:13:39| InfoWorld: Top News

Caspar Bowden, who authored Microsoft's privacy policy between 2002 and 2011 for 40 countries, said this week that he distrusts his former employer and has gone so far as to ditch his mobile phone.

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