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How To Get The Most Out Of Google's Share-Happy World

If Google's going to keep tying all their services together, you may as well know how that will work, and how you can benefit from it.READ»

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Marketers Use Email Cookies To Develop Personalized Ads

Web ads know who you are--and where you go. But is that so bad?READ»

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iFive: Sony Canada Hacked, Google's NFC Credit Plans, No Windows 8 Soon, Amazon's Cheaper 3G Kindle, EU Laws Vs. Cookies

It's Wednesday May 25th, the 145th day of this year and 50 years to the day that J.F.K. said we'd put "a man on the Moon." Interesting, no? Almost as interesting as our summary of today's early news!READ»

Thin Mints! Samoas! Mobile Credit Card Systems! Girl Scout Cookies Go High Tech

Armed with iPhones capable of processing mobile transactions, Girls Scouts in Southern California will soon be knocking on doors, ready to take your order. Don't even try telling them you don't have any cash on hand. READ»

See How You Have Been Tracked Online

Online tracking is a murky business--but the Open Data Partnership is making a good step toward demystifying how Netizens have been tracked, with a new tool to share tracking companies' data on you.READ»

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Facebook, Google Behavioral Ads Will Survive FTC's Proposed "Do Not Call" Registry for the Web

Google, Facebook, and other services use "behavioral ads" to refine advertisements based on users' Web-surfing habits. But that could soon change, thanks to a proposal by the Federal Trade Commission.READ»

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Beware the Evercookie: An HTML5 Loophole to Steal Your Privacy

HTML5 may be the future of advanced websites, and one step toward the demise of Adobe's Flash tech, but that doesn't mean it's 100% wonderful. Now a virus coder has shown HTML5 may have huge privacy loopholes.READ»

Microsoft's Role in the Erosion of Online Privacy

The current debate about online privacy is passionate, complex, and dynamic. But do you know who you should probably blame for much of the root cause? Microsoft. READ»

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British Teenager Fired From Job Via Facebook, After Cookie-Related Ineptitude

Here we have an extremely important World's First: this right here is the World's First Firing Via Facebook in England. Even better, the whole story hinges on the power of a cookie addiction.READ»

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New EU Cookie Law Smacks Of Windows Vista's Constant Nagging

Regulators in Europe have approved a new law that would require users to approve each cookie stored by their Web browser. Cookies are little informative tags that tell a Web site details about your last visit there. The EU Council ...READ»

Facebook Abandons Intrusive Beacon Ads, Partners with Nielsen BrandLift

Remember when Facebook's advertising system Beacon used to get all in your face with self-published inserts on your status page? That's not going to happen again--Facebook's finally ditched Beacon, and partnered with Nielsen in a new ...READ»