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The North American Securities Administrators Association has issued an alert warning potential investors of scammers using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn and dating sites. The typical modus operandi of the scam is to approach groups and even individual users to attempt to gain trust and rapport. (We have warned several times in the…

E-Verify is a proposed U.S. government sponsored program that aims to prevent illegal immigrants from taking jobs from American citizens. Sounds great on the surface, but digging deeper into legislation exposes issues that are sounding alarms with privacy advocates from both sides of the political spectrum. H.R 2885, commonly known as the “Legal Workforce Act,”…

“Watch what you say on Facebook” should be a new rule that parents can pass along to their children along with the more general advices like “don’t accept candy from strangers” or “look both ways before you cross the road”. Four female students had just had their lives irrevocably changed when a conversation they had…

There are times when it’s incredibly difficult to muster up the energy to get fixed up and go clubbing at the end of a long week. The idea of having to punch a hole into your wallet in order to impress that hot chick by the counter and to be extra witty on top of…

In a move that will most likely please even the most hardened privacy advocates, Facebook has just announced that they are hiring Erin Egan, a law firm partner from Covington & Burling, as the new ‘Director of Privacy’. Egan is one of the US’ leading Privacy and Data Security Lawyers and has received many accolades…

There is such a thing as ‘too much’ – unfortunately, this is a line that’s commonly crossed when it comes to the Internet. Some people, commonly known as ‘trolls’, hide beneath a blanket of anonymity and behave in the worst possible way online, dedicating their time and effort to disrupting the peace. One such troll…

Another change is rolling out on Facebook. You will soon see a “Subscribe” button in the top right corner of user profiles. This feature is considered game changing by many, as TheNextWeb.com states it could “eliminate your desire to use any other social network.” Twitter and Google+ both allow for asymmetrical user following, meaning you…

A team of security researchers have created a tool called “Facebook Pwn” which could be used to acquire profile data that would have otherwise been accessible only to those on the user’s friend list. One of its developers call it a ‘Facebook Profile Dumper”, and the implications for its use are downright disturbing. Basically, what…

For most privacy advocates, the crux of this issue is the ability to surf the Internet anonymously. The average web surfer probably has no idea how much information is revealed about them just by connecting their computer to the Internet. This article by HowStuffWorks.com does a great job in breaking down the many facets of…

With Google+ users raving over the site’s Circles feature, it was really only a matter of time before Facebook released their own revamped version of the ‘friend list’. A few days ago, rumors about Facebook testing a new feature that automatically groups a user’s friends into specific “friend lists” began to emerge. The feature has…

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