Tag: Privacy
How To Keep Your Digital Identity Safe While Travelling
Digital privacy is shrinking all over the world. New laws are being introduced globally which let governments, corporations, and advertisers access more and more data about us and our identity. They simply get this information from our online behaviors. And no, clearing your browser history doesn’t ...
How To Choose The Right Home Security Camera
As technology continues to improve, security products continue to go down in price. For example, a home security camera is now realistically available to any homeowner at a decent price. But do you know what you’re shopping for? Just because every camera captures video doesn’t mean they’re all creat ...
With The Information Age Came The End Of Privacy
What started out as a terror attack on unsuspecting Christmas party goers, which resulted in the deaths of 14 people and 22 injured, ended in a battle between two giants: one giant was the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the other was Apple. It eventually went to court, where a judge requested ...
Peek Screen Allows You Total iPhone Privacy In A Public Setting
Our smartphones have become our lives and without them, more people than we think would feel lost. We depend on our smartphone's incredible power and usefulness in every situation. They have become so smart that we can do almost anything with them. But there is one growing issue more important than ...
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9 Tips To Help You Keep Your Internet Footprint Private [Infographic]
It almost feels silly to write an article about how to keep your Internet footprint private since it's a push to say there is any true privacy online at all. However, if you are concerned about your Internet privacy, there are some things you can do to maintain some sort of semblance of privacy. The ...
How To Clean Up Your Facebook Friends List
Over the years, Facebook has grown and so has the number of friends we have on the site. We all use it for different purposes - be it professional, personal, or both. But sometimes, our news feed becomes more of a clutter instead of a constant flow of information. I am sure all of us have had though ...
Off Pocket Is The Future Of Complete Technological Privacy
Anyone who thinks there is still privacy (online and offline) is unfortunately wrong. There are literally hundreds of ways that anyone can track your movements through all the devices you are using. The only way to stay clear of tracking is to keep yourself from using any kind of technology at all. ...
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Is It Privacy Paranoia Or Does The Internet Know It All? [Infographic]
If you have been using social media for a while now, you know how important privacy can be. There have been plenty of examples where social networking services have a different idea about what privacy is compared to its users. Sometimes social networking services have a different agenda than that of ...
Smartphone Controlled Wi-Fi Digital Window Shades Save Energy
Although there have been a few innovative window shade concepts presented over the past few years, for the most part, window shades and blinds haven't changed much in decades. If you want to control the light that comes in or increase privacy, you manually pull the shade or close the curtains or bli ...
Analyze Your Gmail Metadata And Spy On Your Own Email Life
The topic of Internet privacy, or the lack thereof, is always a popular topic. Add to that the stories of spying that have been all over the news lately, and it almost seems like privacy is really dead. I read somewhere that in the future, everyone will hope for 15 minutes of anonymity instead of 15 ...
How To Create A Faraday Cage To Avoid Government Surveillance
Edward Snowden has been all over the news lately, and it's raised all kinds of new concerns about government surveillance and privacy. If you thought the government was invading your privacy without your knowledge, would you go so far as to make a Faraday cage? According to Wikipedia, a Faraday cage ...
These Anti-Google Glass Privacy Glasses Keep Your Privacy Intact
It's likely that after Google glass is available to everyone in 2014, there will be another company that creates something similar (maybe not as sophisticated) for cheaper. It wouldn't be outlandish to think that in ten years from now, we will all be walking around with some sort of Glass-like glass ...
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Facebook In Real Life Is Everything You Never Wished For [Video]
Do you sometimes wonder just how influential Facebook can really get? It seems they are adding more and more users no matter what they do. Has Facebook somehow managed to cross a border where it just doesn't matter what they do anymore? Are they simply adding users just because of the mere fact that ...
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The Worrying State Of Internet Privacy In 2013 [Infographic]
When we think about Internet privacy, it seems we all think about some incident in the past when either our own or someone else's personal information was compromised. It happens every day, and it will most likely continue to be that way. It is said that it is our own fault when this happens to us, ...
So Much For Privacy…Now Computers Can Even See Your Dreams
Recently we learned that scientists can figure out who we are thinking about based on our brain activity. Our brain activity is different for each person that comes into our mind, and by determining which brain activity is for which person, scientists know who we think about most. It seems that's no ...