Blackphone
Blackphone is the world’s first smartphone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else. Ahead of carriers. Ahead of advertising. Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications.
What they know
The Wall Street Journal’s documents the new, cutting-edge uses of Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com. The Journal also built an “exposure index” to determine the degree to which each site exposes visitors to monitoring.
A Death in the Database
Last Thursday, Mike Seay received a mailer from OfficeMax addressed to “Mike Seay/Daughter Killed in Car Crash/Or Current Business.” Even in a society grown numb to targeted marketing, the story of the letter has prompted outrage and confusion. It has raised new questions about what types of information data brokers gather and why.
Managed bug bounty programs, a better approach to security testing
Bugcrowd’s bug bounty platform connects the global security researcher community with your business. Crowdsourced security testing, a better approach!
MyPermissions – Find out how many apps can access your personal info.
MyPermissions automatically scans your apps permissions and let’s you know when new apps access your personal information.
commodify.us
Currently our online personal information, is sold without our consent. If Facebook allows us to download our profile data, we should be able to monetize this data ourselves. Commodify.us is a web application that allows people to visualize and license their Facebook data directly to marketers.
They make money from your data. Why shouldn’t you?
BrowserSpy.dk
BrowserSpy.dk is the place where you can see just how much information your browser reveales about you and your system. Privacy to the ultimate test
Internet Privacy Prank
We asked a bunch of people to do an interview about online privacy. What they didn’t know is that the interview was about *their* online privacy. Information was found using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Tumblr, and more.
How to Erase Yourself From the Internet
If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here’s how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.
— Read on Comparitech.com
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