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Selling Your Bulk Online Data Really Means Selling Your Autonomy

ByThe Webmaster 03/05/201612/04/2025

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By Evgeny Morozov In March, a Dutch student called Shawn Buckles placed his personal data on the market. He offered to hand over all of his most intimate electronic matter—e-mails, health records, calendars, geolocational data—to the highest bidder. By mid-April, Buckles had received 53 offers. The winner of the auction was The Next Web, a popular…

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Online Dating Will Soon Be Obsolete

ByThe Webmaster 29/10/201312/04/2025

By Amanda Hess We are living in a time of great transition for digital romance. A new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, released Monday, found that 59 percent of American Internet users believe that “online dating is a good way to meet people,” a 14-point jump since 2005. Among…

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Facebook admits year-long data breach exposed six million users

ByThe Webmaster 22/06/201312/04/2025

By Gerry Shih, Reuters Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users’ phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world’s largest social networking company disclosed late Friday. Facebook blamed the data leaks, which began in 2012, on a technical glitch in its massive archive of contact information collected from…

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Your Social Media Policy vs Students

ByRamon Thomas 11/06/2013

In the last two weeks several stories appeared in the news media in South Africa about Facebook confession pages from big universities. There’s numerous references to matters that is and should remain private, there are rumors and gossip, and there are mundane confessions like the sort in a private diary. The process is making people…

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A Conversation About Facebook Hacking

ByRamon Thomas 31/05/2013

Recently I answered a series of questions via email to a journalist at the Herald newspaper. How exactly do people hack Facebook accounts and duplicate them? You may be more likely to be a target of scammers and spammers instead of real hackers. Malware is the key ingredient in hacking social media sites. They normally…