Steve Ensley
Internet Safety Specialist
Google tricks Internet Explorer, foils privacy settings,
February 21st, 2012
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/20/google-tricks-internet-explorer-foils-privacy-settings-microsoft-says/?test=latestnews#ixzz1n1ORoJA2 Although this has been an issue for some time and was one of the first breaches by Google that got my attention, this fact again bares repeating. For those of you who are Safari, IE and Google users, this is not only annoying, it borders on criminal. Google is tracking you and spying on [...]
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Whitney Houston scams flood Facebook and Twitter
February 18th, 2012
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/14/whitney-houston-scams-flood-facebook-and-twitter/?intcmp=features Regardless of how you might feel about Whitney Houston, these scams go beyond vulgar or crass and cross the line into criminal deceit. Although it isn’t technically illegal, the folks who do this kind of opportunistic scamming are the same folks who stalk your children, steal your identities and believe that breaking a law [...]
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Google defensive after fresh privacy breach
February 18th, 2012
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/30ba3ece-5994-11e1-8d36-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mkC1zMoH It is good to see Google backpedaling on this privacy issue, but if you read the article I hope you caught two significant items. First you have to opt out in order to NOT be tracked and secondly DoubleClick is used for tracking on thousands of web sites, not just Google. We block DoubleClick [...]
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