Google latitude now gives you the option of enabling ‘history’ – you can enable it here. It’s kind of neat, and I can see it being somewhat fun to use if you go on long trips. I gave it a little test run while I was on the train back to Toronto the other day [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Oh, Spammers and URL Shorteners
May 11th, 2010
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I’ve never really been a big fan of URL shortening services. My main reason is because you lose a bit of branding and URL recognition from users. Also the ‘memory’ factor. Users can’t remember shortened URLs, unless you have an awesome one like bit.ly/hangman. But now my real reason for disliking the shorteners is the [...]
Facebook Changed – Now I Look Bad
April 14th, 2010
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This morning I was checking the status of a couple of my Facebook apps when I noticed something strange. My beloved Hangman! is asking me for my email address. But.. but.. I never told it to. Why is it asking me? I didn’t set the flags that I’m supposed to set. I double checked – [...]
Don’t Allow Facebook Apps to Get Your Email
March 10th, 2010
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Just say no to these prompts. There’s no need a Facebook application has any need to email you directly bypassing the “safe” realm of what Facebook already offers. Applications that need to contact you can already do so via your in box, application counters, and emailing you via Facebook’s email proxy. (A proxy which protects [...]
Don’t Trust Facebook’s Photo Privacy At All
November 22nd, 2009
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You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook. Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them. And it goes sort of like this. I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook. This album has the [...]
