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Data Brokers, Infographically 7 Jun 2013 | 01:42 am
If only we really knew as much about them as they know about us. Data Brokers infographic by amccartney.
PrivacyChoice + AVG 21 May 2013 | 06:47 pm
I’m tremendously excited and proud to announce that PrivacyChoice has become part of AVG Technologies, a global leader in providing protection, performance and privacy solutions for consumers and busi...
Privacyfix Healthbar: Your privacy companion just got a whole lot better 14 May 2013 | 10:32 am
The Privacyfix Healthbar is like your privacy companion, watching out for privacy risks as you visit different sites across the web. Today we’ve given Healthbar a whole new look, and added some seriou...
Today’s Privacyfix: Disable Facebook’s facial recognition 24 Apr 2013 | 09:57 pm
Pictures are a core component of the Facebook experience. Most of the time, you’re either posting pictures or looking at pictures. One fun feature of Facebook is that you can be tagged in a photo, whi...
Today’s Privacyfix: Clean out your YouTube watch history 17 Apr 2013 | 04:21 am
Did you realize that YouTube keeps a history of the videos that you’ve viewed, whether on YouTube.com or when embedded across the web? Having that history can be convenient to re-find something you’ve...
Today’s Privacyfix: Meet the Google Settings app for Android 5 Apr 2013 | 11:49 pm
Android users, if you haven’t already met the “Google Settings” app on your phone or tablet, I’d like to introduce you now. This is not something you’ll find in Google Play — instead, it’s something t...
Today’s Privacyfix: Clear your Facebook searches 4 Apr 2013 | 09:06 pm
You may have read about Facebook “Graph Search,” part of Facebook’s efforts to make all of Facebook’s content easier for you to search. It’s getting easier and easier to find a friend, a restaurant, o...
Today’s Privacyfix: Get your friends’ apps under control 3 Apr 2013 | 04:27 am
Applications are a key part of the Facebook experience for many people. Whether you’ve installed a Facebook game, or an app that pushes status updates to another social media account, you’ve allowed t...
Yet another (better) definition of sensitive boundaries for ad targeting 3 Apr 2013 | 02:44 am
The concept of “sensitive” categories pervades the policy structures governing online ad targeting; there is a sense that certain online activities are “out of bounds” when it comes to behavioral adve...
Get your Privacyfix for LinkedIn 1 Apr 2013 | 11:00 pm
Privacy choices in the modern world often involve subtle tradeoffs. Nowhere is this more clear than LinkedIn, which we’ve just added in a brand new section of Privacyfix. Here’s what it looks like: Mo...
