Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Privacy in the Digital Marketing Age

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One of my Professors once said: in this internet era, privacy is dead. Indeed, it seems that out of all the people who live in this world, t...
Monday, December 01, 2014

Twitter is taking a page out of Facebook and Google's playbook

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According to Business Insider , Twitter will soon be changing its terms of service so that it can monitor the other apps that users have on ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Do you want to keep your messages private? WhatsApp them!

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We all use some kind of instant messaging and most of us know that somewhere, somehow, someone other our intended recipient might read our m...
Friday, October 31, 2014

How Facebook uses you to annoy your friends. And how to stop it.

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In the last lecture we discussed how ads work on FB and we tried to create an ad ourselves. Amazed and amused, I finally discovered the...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Google tries to impose restrictions on Google

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In an age of Big Data where thousands of companies across the internet are not only collecting, but often sharing users’ information,...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Google+ revises "real names" policy

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It has b een a constant complaint about Google+. "Why do we need to use our real names?" Several stories were made public about ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Google Recommendations on a whole new level

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Google has been experimenting with social recommendations for quite some time. With the introduction of Google+, they bri...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Facebook is Changing the Very Fabric of Privacy

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Is Facebook trying to take over the world? Probably not. They are "just" trying to monetize the largest collection of personal use...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

These cookies can do more than make you fat

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In a previous post, Cookies or not cookies? , the upside of advertising based on cookies was discussed. While it can be great for advertise...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Here's a solution - Just alter your scandalous behavior

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Quit your whining. Eric Schmidt is tired of you complaining about how his company is invading your privacy - He says: "If you have so...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Facebook Backtracks on Beacon

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The launch of Facebook's Beacon system a few weeks ago triggered an outcry among users and privacy advocates, who found the automated po...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Talk about the end of privacy...

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If you thought what Facebook is doing with selling our profiles to advertisers so they can target us better, how about Google's new inve...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

FTC Wants Tighter Control Over Online Ads

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In today's NYTimes article, the FTC chairman, Jon Leibowitz said that the FTC will be exerting a tighter control on online ads. Particul...