Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the evils of web trackers and analytics. They are used almost exclusively to feed the ad industry and you should block them wherever possible. Rym has installed the microcode patch for some Intel chips and you should too if you have one of them.
In the news, Microsoft is moving to a security-first posture, nostalgia accounts on social media are making up nonsense, and chatbots are intruding into and slowly ruining online social spaces.
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Things of the Day
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Content tagged with privacy
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Apple, CSAM, and Privacy
August 23 2021
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider Apple, CSAM, and Privacy. Apple is under fire for …
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The Levels of Protecting Your Privacy
July 1 2013
Tonight on GeekNights, in light of recent non-revelations about the activities of the NSA, we …
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Face Recognition and Federated Clouds
July 18 2011
Tonight on GeekNights, we begin a discussion on the ramifications of face recognition technology as …
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Google Buzz and Privacy
February 15 2010
Tonight on GeekNights we discuss privacy on social networks, mostly as a result of the …
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