Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

One of the largest Russian mobile carriers Megafon and the leading Russian search engine Yandex need to explain quite a lot of things to their users today due to an unspeakable data leak as thousands of SMS messages sent via Megafon website got publicly available in Yandex search results. A lazy person in me who [...]

For quite a while I’ve been watching social networking booming in Russia and it has been a spectacular process here in the country with practically everyone now having a profile on at least one of the two major social networks – Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. One economic effect of this boom has been obvious for quite [...]

Yesterday Yandex made a move that was quite predictable given the fact that the leading Russian search engine began copying various Google products quite a while ago and has enough power to promote such products in Russia given its leading position in the online market of the country. The latest addition to its range of [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

We all know the famous trends of web 2.0 like user-generated content or content syndication and we have grown to accept the internet as it is – along with all the strengths and weaknesses of the system. And of course as any medium internet can have both good and bad sides – and quite logically [...]

Usually when Google does something – whatever it is – it inevitably attracts tons of attention from public and media. But the problem is that we have not seen actually groundbreaking announcements from the internet giant recently as they usually come up with things like new features added to Gmail Labs. Yet it looks like [...]

I have already complained once that Google seems to be totally determined to do everything the internet giant can for us not to have to think about our emails a lot: Gmail reminds us we should attach the file we have forgotten to attach and it can even encourage you not to send that email [...]

We often hear complains here and there about the connections between social networks and our real lives and sometimes we even see what looks like real family conflicts with husbands and wives remaining unconnected on Facebook, even when they both have accounts. But now we are facing a new issue of the growing disappointment of [...]

It is no wonder that given our mostly online lifestyle we begin to care more and more about our privacy: after all, when you give so much information about yourself away, you can’t help but wonder how people who have access to this information will use it (or rather will they use it at all). [...]