All posts tagged "privacy"
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How-ToUnlistmy.info Shows You How to Opt Out from Online People Search Aggregators
Intellius.com, Acxiom.com., MyLife.com, BeenVerified.com, Peekyou.com. USSearch.com, DOBSearch.com, Spoke.com, PrivateEye.com, Whitepages.com, Radaris.com—what do all of these websites have in common? You. They’ve got...
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How-To
Don’t be a Weiner – Secure your Twitter Account!
Ok fine, #Weinergate was fiction and no one ever actually hacked the perv’s twitter account. That said, if you don’t want to...
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How To Customize Ads from Google or Opt-Out Completely
Although Google is primarily a search business with a few smaller gigs on the side, its primary cash flow comes from its...
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How to Manually Block a Phone Number in Google Voice
Whether you have an evil step-mother, a crazy ex, or an annoying company trying to sell or collect something from you, wouldn’t...
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How to Stop Facebook from Suggesting Your Name in Photos
Did you know Facebook has a feature which will analyze photos uploaded by your friends and if it recognizes you in the...
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How-To Block People from Tagging your Face on Facebook Photos
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that Privacy is a hot button for me especially...
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How To Block Friends from Posting on your Facebook Wall
Our groovyPost on How to delete your Facebook account has a comment from a reader who wants to increase his privacy a...
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Disable Photo Tag Recommendations on Facebook and “Save Your Face”
Facebook is well-known for the privacy concerns it generates, and among the worst ones is photo tagging. Once you’ve uploaded your mug...
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How to Create a History and Evidence Erase Button to Make CCleaner Run Quietly in the Background
Have you ever been sitting at your desk and had a moment where you wish you could push a button on your...
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News
Yahoo! Search is Now Hanging Onto Your Data 15 Months Longer
It was only a year ago that Yahoo set their privacy standard to only a 90-day data retention length. At 3 months,...
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Looking to Track Someone’s Every Move? Get them an iPhone!
You think I’m just joking don’t you? Well… .I wish I was. Two British researchers have looked deep into the iPhone’s OS...
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Picasa Web Albums Update Makes it Easier to Manage Privacy
It was just the other day that a friend of mine noticed all of his Picasa albums were set to public. We...
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How-To
How to Automatically Run and Clean Multiple User Accounts with CCleaner
If you’re using a work computer or laptop and you’d like to make sure that you don’t leave unwanted temporary files behind,...
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How-To
How to Clear Firefox 4 History, Cookies, and Cache
A year ago we wrote the ultimate guide to clearing out your Firefox History and Cache. Since then Mozilla has released Firefox...
