This is primarily for my own future reference, to simplify informing people.

Selected quotes:

If you're Google, the single-user treatment can have some benefits to you. For example, if you have an appointment in Google Calendar, when the app alerts you about it, it can also tell you if you're going to be late for the meeting based on location ( Read more... )

I went looking for info on the new google privacy thing (to better inform others. I do not use a google account). Not getting any current (2012) results on a google search with the query "google privacy problems" (aside from the news section) was not surprising.
However, finding both Wiki articles to not be updated was very surprising, and ( Read more... )

I love when programmers incorporate meme jokes! This is real. We checked it.


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Originally posted here

David Gerard: Jay Blanc originally shared this post:
Apparently confirmed. If Google force a European Account Holder to have a public Google Profile with their "real name" on it, they are BREAKING THE LAW. Read below. US account holders should write a letter to Larry Page and the Board of Google to pressure them into ( Read more... )

Steampunk meets history

nostalgia: Dos to Win7

This has been happening a lot recently. You click on a google link and a security warning pops up, telling you your system is infected and you need to follow the screens to remove the infection. The warning comes up with bells and whistles, flashing red, or showing you a gif perporting to be your system files being accessed ( Read more... )

Read Woody Leonhard's column about the privacy concerns with Windows Live and its adjoined Messenger and Hotmail ( Read more... )

Yahoo now shares information of users online activity with their contacts.
That means everyone on your contact list -- including your mom or work colleagues -- gets updated on what you do on any account that is linked to your yahoo info, including which contacts you talk to and where you've posted a comment.
The default setting is sharing and you ( Read more... )

Haven't been here for ages. Wonder if there's still anyone linked to this page ( Read more... )

This is a public service announcement.

To turn off - deselct the Navigation strip display options on the settings page here.

And you can get lj to turn off various annoying messages on the cprod page

What LJ says about the navigation strip being turned on again (and again and again).

End of public service announcement.