privacy

Google Reader invades your privacy and it's not going to stop

Posted December 26, 2007 - 00:35 by Will Chen

Consumer Affairs

Google RSS reader answers questions

Before 12/14, Google Reader already had a "sharing" feature, which allows you to share posts with people that you had explicitly identified as friends you wanted to share with. After 12/14, Google took everything you've ever "shared" and started broadcasting that info to everyone in your Google Talk contact list. This is the new default setting. If you don't like it, the burden is on YOU to navigate through the settings to opt out of this new feature.

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Money Matters: Why All the Secrecy?

Posted November 17, 2007 - 12:36 by Nora Dunn

Personal Finance

shhh

As I alluded to in another article, I am amazed at how people will sit around the dinner table and openly share intimate details of their sex lives, medications, and even psychotherapy before they'll divulge their income. Why all the secrecy around financial matters? What key to our inner selves is hidden in our balance sheets?

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The Not-So-Private Parts

Posted September 25, 2007 - 17:09 by Ed O'Reilly

Life Hacks, Consumer Affairs

Rolling the dice online

Raise your hand if you’ve never used Google or any of its services, don’t belong to any social network (including sites like Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), don’t have (or comment on) a blog or never gave out any personal information online, like your name, email address, phone number, etc., in exchange for access and/or membership to a website.

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