Archive for the 'Privacy' Category

Security questions - Where was the company Christmas party held in 2005?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

When opening a new TD Ameritrade account, I was asked to choose four security questions and provide the answers to them. I don’t even know the answers to 98% of them. You better go study up on your elementary school yearbooks before opening an account somewhere! And, I think for one of [...]

Privacy on Facebook and Google

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Today we will hear about Facebook’s new ad network, SocialAds, which will one-up behavioral targeting by utilizing data supplied by its users to target advertising. Given the FTC claims that the Internet advertising industry does not have the capacity to self-regulate itself with regard to privacy, what will they think about a company led [...]

Do Not Track List

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I still do not know what to think of the Do-Not-Track list concept presented by nine privacy organizations to the FTC today. As we browse the Internet, HTTP cookies are placed in our computers to track our actions — where we are now (current site), where were we before (sites visited), and what do [...]

How Internet cookies work

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

My next post will be regarding the new concepts around the Do Not Track list. To help some make sense of the meaning behind Internet tracking and behavioral targeting, I help explain it below. For a lot of people, this stuff is common knowledge. For the others, if you want to see [...]