Facebook launched a beta test today that foreshadows new privacy controls coming to “Publisher” – the box at the top of your home and profile pages where you add content. The changes will let you easily specify who among your friends gets to see that specific photo, video or status update you’re sharing. The change…
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Your number’s on the wall
This piece appeared on June 24, 2009 on ABC and shows what personal information about you is posted on the walls of polling places.
‘Peeping Tom Landlord’ pleads guilty
The man prosecutors dubbed the “Peeping Tom Landlord” could be peering from behind prison bars for a long time now that he’s admitted to using electronic devices to videotape women who lived in his Norristown apartment buildings. Thomas Daley, 46, formerly of the 1000 block of Spring City Road, Phoenixville, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County…
Chipped phones can track consumers
RFID stories seem to come in threes. This one, from Threat Level, is about how mobile phones will be chipped — for better or worse: An Ericsson executive says all new mobile phones sold in 2010 will include an RFID chip that will allow owners to open their car or house door with their phone….