Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

October 8, 2008 5:19:34 AM CDT


Stories related to: privacy settings

Stories

5 Stories

  • August 2008
    • Explorer 8's Privacy Feature Boon to Users

      Explorer 8's Privacy Feature Boon to Users

      (Newser) - The privacy features available with the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will appeal to users “paranoid or perverted,” Peter Bright writes on Ars Technica, but will “go some way to curtailing the power of large Internet companies to monitor how people are using the web.” Explorer 8’s InPrivate Browsing automatically deletes session history and cookies when the window is closed. More »

      Tags

      Microsoft   online privacy   Internet Explorer   privacy settings   cookies   Internet privacy

  • March 2008
    • After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      (Newser) - Facebook is launching a series of new privacy features today, allowing users to better pinpoint who can see which parts of their information, PC World reports. Privacy has been a watchword at Facebook ever since the PR disaster that was the Beacon advertising platform, which tracked users online. “With Beacon, we just screwed it up,” one VP admitted. More »

      Tags

      Facebook   online privacy   instant messaging   Beacon   chat room   privacy settings

  • February 2008
    • Private Photos Find Way to Online Viewers

      Private Photos Find Way to Online Viewers

      (Newser) - The privacy settings on online photo-sharing sites aren’t always foolproof, as one Washington mother discovered. After posting pictures of her kids skinny-dipping on Flickr and marking them “private,” she found recently that they had been viewed thousands of times, the Washington Post reports. "Are creepy people searching through thousands of pictures looking for random naked ones?” she wonders. More »

      Tags

      website   online privacy   digital photography   Flickr   privacy settings   Shutterfly   Snapfish

  • October 2007
    • Don't Let Facebook De-Face You

      Don't Let Facebook De-Face You

      (Newser) - Social-networking sites make it easier to connect with friends and make new ones, but they also let casual acquaintances  like co-workers—or your boss—look you up on a whim.  Protect your privacy with these six steps from MarketWatch : Look for tools that allow you to restrict access to your profile, like the "private" setting on MySpace or the "limited profile" function on Facebook. More »

      Tags

      list   Facebook   social networking   MySpace   online privacy   privacy settings

  • July 2007

5 Stories

Today's Most Popular

Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »