A couple of big things have happened in the privacy world over the past couple of weeks. Mozilla announced that the newest version of its Firefox browser will automatically block third party cookies, and Senators Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have reintroduced a bill, the Do Not Track bill (DNT),…
Chances are you’ve heard of cookies–and no, not the kind coveted by a certain monster who lives on Sesame Street. Cookies save information about what you’re up to on the internet so that, for instance, you don’t have to log in to Amazon or Facebook every single time you visit…
Schools are meant to be safe places of learning. For the most part they are. In order to keep schools safe, every school has policies about what can be brought on campus, what types of electronic communication can be used at school and sometimes even what types of communication can…
Freshman year is always pretty exciting. In high school you’re that much closer to driving and moving out of your parent’s house. In college you’re that much closer to going to a bar (legally) and eating pizza as many times a week as you want. Enjoy it! Just be sure…
As soon as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (PDF) failed in the Senate, speculation started that the President will use an Executive Order to put the legislation to use anyway. Putting aside the massive issues raised by using an Executive Order to override the will of the Senate, it’s not…
Download the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey to your e-reader and most people on your morning commute will never know. There’s no visible cover and no tale-tale size and shape to announce what you’re reading. On an e-reader you can be reading Moby Dick or Moby’s Dick or anything…
If you were arrested in Florida your mug shot will live on forever on the Internet. Unless you’re a Florida police officer, in which case, you can fill out a form to keep your mug shot out of the public record and off extortion sites like florida.arrests.org. Florida prides itself…
In the last few weeks the Safe Shepherd team has put in extra overtime to help victims of stalking. We’re working with the Stalking Resource Center to provide free premium service to stalking victims and we’re leading a campaign to bring better anti stalking laws to all fifty states. We…
The majority of people search websites provide opt out policies on their websites. Those sites balance the public availability of personal information with personal control over that information (or at least the aggregated version of the information people search sites sell). As a result, there hasn’t been a huge push…
The Internet doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone; the way we use it is defined, more than any other factor, by our age. And that defines the extent to which it uses us. When Pew first started researching the Internet in American life in 2000, socio-economic differences were the…