Methods and/or means to allow users to better control access to their data used by a web app
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Is there a free alternative to Google that improves privacy handling?
Google tracks searches and also sends search data to visited sites in the HTTP referrer headers, and this information can be tied together to allow someone to look at what you have been searching over ...
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Does WordPress allow me to mark posts as private?
Suppose I want to start a blog. I would like the "professional" stuff to be public, but the "personal" stuff should only be accessible to friends and family (i.e., accessible only to those users to ...
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Hiding job title on blogs using Facebook comments
On Techcrunch or other blogs using Facebook comments, I noticed that your job title displays next to your post. Is there any way to limit the privacy settings so it only displays to friends versus ...
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How can I know if one of my friends on Facebook is blocking me?
As a parent with a minor child who has a Facebook account, I'd like to know if there is any way, short of having her show me her privacy settings, that I can detect if my child (friend on Facebook) is ...
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How can I make my tweets private?
I want my tweets on Twitter to remain private and not be visible to anyone except those I designate as being able to view.
How do I accomplish this?
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In Facebook, how can I hide relationship status, profile pictures, etc?
It seems like there are a number of pieces of data that is hard to understand how to control privacy on.
How can I hide from the public:
Relationship Status
Profile Picture
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Does OpenID expose your email address to websites?
Does OpenID expose your email address to the websites that use the service? For example, when using stackoverflow with google openID provider is my google address exposed to stackoverflow? (It seems ...
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Where can I find a paste service with (client side) encryption?
I want to:
paste / edit a text snippet online
encrypt that snippet in my browser
store that snippet online
tell some of my folks about the url to the snippet AND the passphrase
are there services ...
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Friend list private but Facebook reveals it with “Do you know X,Y,Z” emails
My Facebook friends list is private, because there are some people I don't want to show I am friend with.
A while ago I created a Bob account for testing purposes and added Bob as a friend.
PROBLEM: ...
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Are Google Shortened URLs (goo.gl) Publicized, Sequential, or Secret?
Google has a shortening service at http://goo.gl/ which let's you convert a long URL to a short one. It says the following about the URLs it generates:
All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are ...
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Does Facebook have rights to stuff I host myself but link to?
I never post pictures to FB directly anymore, but instead host them on my own domain and link to them on FB.
Same goes for blog posts.
Does FB have the same rights to linked content that they do if ...
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Make Facebook Likes on a Page (Private)?
In constant urge to keep myself updated on what's going on in other universities, I would like to like the official facebook pages of these universities; but I also want to keep this activity private ...
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How to keep your privacy when using an online backup service?
I have read several recommendations of online backup services. These indeed sound attractive options as they provide a means for off-site backups, and I would expect they ensure your data is backuped ...
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How can I make my Facebook profile completely private?
How can I make my Facebook profile completely private?
I don't want people to be able to see cover photos or my Facebook photo profile.
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How do I make my Resume unavailable on Dice.com?
I posted my resume on Dice.com. My job search is over, and I would like it to be unavailable to employers. Obviously Dice is more interested in obtaining Resumes than deleting them, so they haven't ...
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Different Faces of Facebook
In Facebook, you have a Profile page which I it says is the Wall, and a Home page which says it's a news feed. I'm confused as to which one other friends can see, and how much they can see.
I wonder ...
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Will this method for apparently restricting what people can see on Facebook actually work?
I've seen the following post from at least two of my Facebook friends in the last couple of days (and who knows how many more I've missed when I've been off line).
I think I understand the logic ...
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1answer
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Twitter's “Similar to” reveals my friends, despite protected account
I recently switched to a Twitter protected account, so that social engineers can't find my friends.
PROBLEM: I just realized that anybody seeing my protected account's page can click the "Similar to ...
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How to remove google search result?
How to remove google search result ?
It contain my full name and surname and email address like personal information.
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What tools can I use to check what sort of information is shared about me with websites?
Related to this question about tracking mechanisms on Web applications and sites, I would like to know:
What tools, scripts or other applications can be used to identify when my online activity is ...
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1answer
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Create a private album on Facebook for private automatic upload of photos from mobile?
How can I create a private album on Facebook that would allow me to automatically upload of photos from mobile that will be private until I later make them manually available?
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I do not have a FaceBook account but keep receiving emails
How do I stop people that I don't know emailing me to ask me to be their friend?
Why do the emails that I receive think that I will know a list of people that I have never heard of?
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1answer
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Lastpass login information on multiple browsers
I use Lastpass on two different browsers (Mozilla and Google Chrome) with two different ID's on each browser. I don't use the Firefox ID on Chrome and vice versa. But today something strange happened. ...
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How do I fully hide my wall In Facebook?
I used to hide the wall of all it's activities and posts before, but now with the new privacy settings I can't find this option. I can only hide each post manually, but I can't hide the ...
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1answer
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How can I prevent anyone on the web from seeing comments on my Google+ profile picture?
When I view my profile as "anyone on the web", they see one post on my profile. This post if of me selecting my profile picture, and includes my friends' comments on that picture.
I don't mind my ...
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Will Google track me less if I pay for Google Apps for Business?
I'm increasingly freaked out by the relevance of ads I see across sites. For example, I receive a joke mail about planning a trip to Antarctica, and now I start seeing Antarctica travel ads across ...
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How do I keep my Facebook friends list and befriending notifications to myself?
I don’t want anyone to either see my friends list or to be notified of who I become friend with. I only want those two pieces of information limited to me. How can I do this?
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Disable commenting-ability on a photo-by-photo basis
I'd like to disable the commenting function for all of my friends for some of my photos but not for all of them or my status updates which is the only privacy control panel I can find. Is this ...
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362 views
Facebook - privacy when posting on wall of 'liked' website
If I comment on a Facebook website, can non-friends who 'like' that site see my whole profile?
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Facebook “friend list” members unable to post on wall
Prior to a lot of the privacy redesign changes that have been going on with Facebook, I had a specific set of friends grouped into a friend list. For this list, I restricted access so that these ...
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Can I limit what my friends can see of my Likes and Comments on the FB News Ticker?
I have set strict privacy settings on Facebook to "only me" on my Timeline, Friends List and page "Likes". Yet a friend of mine told me the other day they saw a number of my likes and comments ...
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Something's changed in my profile picures setting, and it seems as it can be seen by public - can't change it!
I have always had my pictures set to high privacy settings, but now I noticed that if I view it as "public" I can see my profile picture album. When I go to the album itself, is says "you can change ...
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How to completetly hide my profile on Facebook?
I have a timeline profile on Facebook.
I want to hide it completely from any search results.
Maybe show it only to people to whom I give direct link.
I don't want my friends to see the mutual ...
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Does Gmail leak the contents of my email via ads?
I have assumed for some time that de facto Gmail leaks information about the contents of my email. Having just read a related question, I'm wondering if my assumption is correct.
Suppose, for ...
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In Gmail, will merging contacts with phone numbers and contacts with G+ profiles violate their privacy?
Ever since I started using Google+, it has added the people in my G+ circles as new entries to my Gmail contacts. The only information, apparently, in these new contact entries, is those people's G+ ...
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Pastebins (web apps that allows posting snippets of texts) that allow registered users to opt to not include their usernames on specified pasted texts
Are there any Pastebins that will allow registered users to opt to not include their usernames on specified pasted texts?
I know I can post as an unregistered user, but I want the management and ...
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Mark a blog or a post on Blogspot as private
Is there any way to mark a blog or a single post as private on Blogspot?
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How can I determine if I can trust a company with my information?
We all know that we should be careful about what kind of information we put online. However, some applications exist purely to store some critical information like Basecamp, Google Apps, Mint, etc.
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What sort of mechanisms are used by Web applications to track my actions?
I am concerned about my privacy. I have read in multiple websites and forums that it is very common for Web applications to track my activities. However, I have no clear idea of the actual ...
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Facebook messages to multiple people: do they all know who I sent it to?
When I send Facebook messages to more than one person by adding them all to the to field, does everyone who receives the message see that I've sent it to more than one person? Can they see who?
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How to view a LinkedIn profile anonymously?
I saw this ad this morning:
Is there really no way to avoid the awkwardness?
This page describes a solution but the settings menu they are suggesting does not exist anymore.
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How do I make a Facebook Page public?
I have a page that I administer and I want to make it public so I (or anyone) can go to
facebook.com/MyBusinessNameIsAwesome
And they will be able to see the page even if they're not logged in to ...
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Does LinkedIn access my cookies and Google search history for its suggestions? [closed]
LinkedIn seems to suggest people I may know. I believe, or it's my hypothesis, that LinkedIn scours information located in the cookie files on my computer and in some way accesses the information that ...
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1answer
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Facebook : Photos tab not visible in profile to 'Everyone'
For a personal account, I've set the privacy of all albums to 'Everyone', but still the Photos tab is not visible for people who are not 'Friends'. Direct links to the album are accessible, but the ...
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What are the recommended privacy settings for Facebook?
I hear a lot about the default privacy settings on Facebook being too open and that third parties can get hold of my private information. What can I do to lock down my account so that only the people ...
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1answer
2k views
How can I prevent the posts of friends of Friends from showing up in Facebook?
How can I prevent the posts of friends of Friends in Facebook? I really don't care to see all the garbage some of these people post.
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1answer
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Limit access to certain Facebook photo albums
I know it is possible to define groups of friends. But how do I allow/exclude groups to see a photo-album ? Is it possible?
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1answer
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List based privacy setting in Facebook
I am able to create lists in Facebook. Is it possible to apply a set of privacy setting for each list?
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Prioritize Facebook privacy between lists that are locked and not locked
I can set privacy settings no problem but I cannot find any reference to priority of privacy settings in Facebook.
That is, I have someone in a locked down list I also want to add them to a ...
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Facebook - Likes and comments not showing up in news feed; Photos tab is not visible to everyone
My likes and comments are not showing up in my newsfeed (after days). The Photos tab is not visible to everyone.
Here are my privacy settings:
Account -> Privacy Settings ->
Connecting on ...
