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Governmental monitoring

Many of us can remember a time when we could go out a be a little bit crazy and we would be laughed at for a week until someone else did something new the weekend after. Or when somebody had something to say that was so secret that it needed to be whispered into your…

Tracking my trackers

Cookies and advertisers

By now I guess we’ve all heard about cookies, but I am not sure we all understand them. Sometimes when we browse the Internet we get warnings saying that ‘this site use cookies’ etc. Why do they warn us? Are cookies that bad? What are they really? There are different types of cookies; ‘first party…

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Manage your G+ privacy settings!

In my previous post I wrote a little bit about how our public profiles can be used by companies and law enforcement. If you have not read it yet, click here to read about online identities and social networks 🙂 Because people wish to stay connected and explore new technologies it is an impossible task…

Search the world

Search engines – Try out DuckDuckGo!

“We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads.” This is taken from Google’s policies…