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iOS 8 makes it tougher for WiFi hotspots to track your location

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Jun

2014

Apple made a hullabaloo over iOS 8s user-accessible privacy controls during its WWDC keynote, but it now appears that some of the biggest safeguards are under the hood. Security guru Frederic Jacobs has noticed that iOS 8 uses random network identifiers when scanning for WiFi access, and will only reveal a devices true ID when […]

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More Facebook Graph Search Suggestions

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Jan

2013

Yesterday as I was testing Facebook’s Graph Search, which is in Beta, I searched for the following: women who live in Helsinki, Finland and who like sushi. (I wanted something that would get lots of results. It did.)At the end of the day, I cleared my search history.Then today, a sponsored story for a Helsinki-based […]

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Facebook Encourages Developers to Build ‘Private Mode’ and Other Sharing Controls into Apps

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Oct

2011

Facebook introduced ‘frictionless sharing’ at the F8 conference last month. The basic premise behind ‘frictionless sharing’ is that an application is granted permission to publish to a user profile once and doesn’t have to ask for permission again. As expected, many Facebook users had a huge problem with the oversharing potential this new feature presents. […]

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