Cindy Harper
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German consumer group awards StartPage.com with a “best search engine” award, mostly due to its privacy
Startpage.com CEO Roberts Been was thrilled by the news and said the company was honored to achieve first place in the test.
Mastercard says it wants you to create a Mastercard ID so it can collect your data and create a “personalized online shopping experience”
The digital identity system will also help simplify government interactions with agencies in activities such as filing taxes, applying for passports, and much more.
The draconian Australian anti-encryption bill is putting companies off storing data in Australia
According to Bill Smith, Australia had for a long time remained a ‘comfortable’ place for foreign investors and governments to store their data.
BitTorrent Live will be a new, decentralized live-streaming app with blockchain, privacy and user-content ownership ambitions
According to the spokesman, BitTorrent Live will be available to beta testers in Q2 of this year and open to the public late this year.
Firefox’s new update makes the internet less annoying
No more abrupt auto-playing videos, popups, and page jumps
President Trump’s social media chief, Dan Scavino Jr, is being blocked from commenting on Facebook
“WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ME from replying to comments followers have left me” Scavino exclaimed.
Facebook is under criminal investigation for its privacy-invasive, dodgy data deals
Subpoenaed records signal that a criminal investigation into these matters is underway.
Consider making your Flickr photos Creative Commons to avoid the 1,000 photo limit
“All public Creative Commons works on Flickr are now protected from deletion”, says Flickr.
Will “ethical data collection” become a new Silicon Valley buzzword?
Tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon seem to be grappling with the future of their own business models.
Michelle Malkin envisions a post-Google world with alternative tech
Michelle Malkin is tired of big tech and is looking for alternatives.
Publishers Say That revenue on Apple News is “abysmal” due to Apple’s focus on privacy
Advertisers love lots of privacy-invading data, and Apple won’t collect it.
The original web browser: you can now see what it was like to use the internet on day one
If you’re wondering what the internet looked like on day one, here it is. While it’s much more basic, the main elements are pretty much the same.