Facebook privacy: A guide

Posted: August 19th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: , | No Comments »

Title: Facebook privacy: a guide
Author: Jacqui Cheng
Source: Arstechnica
Date Published: 14th August 2009

Excerpt:

….Facebook has decent privacy controls, but most users don’t
realize how to take full advantage of them. Ars guides you through
Facebook’s privacy settings so that you can be both social and
respectable at the same time……

Posted in /dev/project page.

Please refer here: http://www.xanda.org/index.php?page=facebook-privacy-a-guide

Thanks


Yauba : The World’s First Privacy Safe Search Engine

Posted: March 13th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: My Self | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

Yauba is a brand new search engine from India. One of the important features of Yauba is its stress of user’s privacy and security. Yauba operates in complete incognito mode and does not collect any personal data and another thing is, it can be used as WEB PROXY!

Most search engines try to gather and record as much information about their users as possible. They (or their parent companies) operate massive server farms with even more massive databases that secretly record your entire search history, your private contacts, the identity of your family and friends, your personal emails, your conversations and chats, your browsing habits, your physical location, details on the software you use on your computer, your IP address, and much much more. This is no exaggeration. Indeed, if you ever saw exactly how much most search engines actually know about your private details, you would be completely shocked.

At Yauba, we completely reject the view that search engines somehow need to keep mountains of data on their own users. Instead, we take the exact opposite approach. We do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users.

  • This is why we do not keep any record of any of your search terms, browsing habits or any other personally identifiable information.
  • This is why we automatically delete any and every piece of personally identifiable information from our servers on a continuous basis.
  • This is why we can have the shortest privacy policy (9 words) of any major Internet service in the world.
  • This is why you can visit almost every Internet site through the main Yauba service on a completely anonymous basis (with the only exception of file types that use other external third party software or plug-ins for downloading or playing).

Lets give Yauba a try at http://www.yauba.com/