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Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch – “Do Not Track” is Not the Answer

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Victoria Salisbury wrote an excellent blog post today on “ Who’s Creepier? Facebook or Google? The answer lies in the problem I stated above – the problem being that individual user information is being stored on 3rd party servers, without the control of users and assumed risk of relying on a 3rd party.

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Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch - "Do Not Track" is Not the Answer

Stay N' Alive

We saw this as Facebook made a temporary mistake earlier in 2010 when they launched Instant Personalization on 3rd party websites along with other 3rd party website features, but in doing so accidentally opened up a majority of their users private information with little notice to users (I did get an email warning of the change, however).

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

TwitterFeed – a service that combines OpenID and Twitter to let you feed the entries on your blog to Twitter Twitterholic keeps a top list of users based on how often the post, how many friends they have, and other factors. ¬ Jonathan Eggers #5317 March 12th, 2010 at 12:17 pm Great tips, this is a very comprehensive list!

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