Tag Archive 'Privacy'

Interview With Myself: The Privacy Crisis in America

This is an interview I did with David Tortorelli, president of Book Premieres, which I did years ago and just found on the Ezinearticles Web site, for some reason. I’d hired David to promote my book, Computer Privacy Annoyances, and this appeared on the book’s Web site (now defunct). But the things I talked about [...]

Medical Identity Theft Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

When your medical identity is stolen, you may experience pain both fiscal and physical. Here’s how to avoid becoming a victim and recover quickly if you do.
A version of this story appears in the October issue of Women’s Health, which you can find online here, along with a strangely tongue-in-cheek photo (pun intended). What follows [...]

Smoke, mirrors, and Google’s privacy policies

Google has magnamimously decided to halve the time it holds onto your IP address — or has it? There is less to Google’s latest privacy moves than meets the eye.

Google is 10 - But Not a Perfect 10

It hardly seems possible that Google is now a tween. But it’s true: ten years ago, on September 7, 1998, Google Inc. was born.
Back then there were a dozen ways to search the Web — Excite, Lycos, Alta Vista, Hotwire, Yahoo, etc. — none of them particularly good. I would go from one to [...]

Data security meets disco fever

Seductive Asian agents, wayward Brits, purloined Blackberries — it sounds like a LeCarre novel, but it’s really a true story. Cringely dives deep into a sex/spy scandal of Olympian proportions and talks about what this means for you and your data.

Everybody’s got something to hide (except for me and my YouTube)

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom’s attorneys soon will. 
The owners of Comedy Central and VH1 are attempting to [...]

DIY Identity-Theft Protection: A 12-Step Program

(This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.)

You don’t have to spend $100 to $200 a year to defend yourself from identity theft at the level of protection that a paid service offers. You can do almost everything the services do, for free. But following these steps will require time and effort.

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ID Theft Protection: Who Can You Trust?

New online services offer to protect you from identity theft, and some claim to help you undo damage after it happens. But when we tested the services, we found that many fall short.
(This story originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of PC World magazine.)
by Dan Tynan
You can’t open a newspaper or a browser without [...]