Are Employers Really Thinking This Facebook Screening Thing Through?

by Collin Van Uden on March 22nd, 2012

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A story from Associated Press has been making the rounds this week about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook login credentials during interviews.

If you haven’t already, go read the article.

Iit’s rife with rage inducing nuggets of derpery that have set the privacy pundits ablaze, and for good reason, but there was one snippet in [...]

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Generate you Privacy Policy automagically with OECD

by Collin Van Uden on April 5th, 2010

I found something really cool today. When that happens, I like you share it with you people, because as you all should know, I’m a caring, sharing kinda guy.

As some of you may also know, I don’t take myself, or this site too seriously (yet) So when it comes to the nitty gritty fine print type stuff, I can get a little .. well, slack. [...]

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Internet Filter Recap for the Resurfacing

by Collin Van Uden on March 14th, 2010

So, Stephen Conroy’s Australian Mandatory ISP Internet Filter was featured in a Yahoo! news article today, but the comments are limited to 1000 characters. If you’ve been paying attention it’d be pretty clear theres no way that’ll be sufficient for my ramblings, so here’s the full response below:

(Note: if you’d like to leave a comment on the Yahoo [...]

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Youtube releases saftey mode

by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010

On the 9th of this month, YouTube enabled a new Parental Control style feature :’Safety mode’

An opt in setting that blocks out undesirable search results. Keep your kiddies safe (or, frustrate the hell out of someone you know goes looking for undesirable videos on YouTube.)

According to YouTube’s blog, the filter also blocks out “newsworthy video that [...]

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Facebook 'Is this you on TV/in this video' Malware and how to remove it

by Collin Van Uden on November 29th, 2009

So, a (nameless) friend of mine created a facebook account recently, and like many new users, made the mistake of clicking on a link sent received in her inbox. Easy mistake to make, irritating when it comes to getting rid of the resulting malware that takes up residence on your PC.

 

With a little assistance from TrendMicro, [...]

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