Servers can identify various technical information about a connecting web browser and computer system including the screen resolution, user agent that includes the operating system, web browser version, plugins that are installed or the user’s timezone.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an interesting theory that it is possible to track web browsers based on their [...]
How Unique Is Your Web Browser’s Fingerprint?
Study Suggests That Google Toolbar Transfers Data Even In Disabled State
The Google Toolbar is a web browser add-on that is currently available for Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The toolbar is an official Google application that provides quick access to several Google services and features like translating web pages or sharing websites with friends. Everyone knows that the Google Toolbar transfers data to Google [...]
Improve Firefox Private Browsing With Private Browsing Window Add-on
The Mozilla developers have added private browsing to the Firefox web browser since version 3.5. This basically allows a Firefox users to switch to a mode where no records of the web browsing session will be stored on the computer system. The way it is implemented is different from the incognito mode in the Google [...]
Autostart Firefox In Private Browsing Mode
Private browsing mode is a new option that all popular web browsers are offering by now (the latest to add this mode was the Opera web browser that had the mode implemented in the recently released Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release. Once turned on private browsing mode ensures that data that is generated during that browsing [...]
Google And Privacy
Privacy is a big issue on the Internet these days and companies like Google have to put a lot of effort into convincing or reassuring Internet users that they do care about the individual user’s privacy.
A recent post at Google’s Privacy blog explains Google’s approach to privacy in the form a presentation that lists [...]
If You Have Something That You Don’t Want Anyone To Know…
If You Have Something That You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It In The First Place. That is what Google’s CEO Erik Schmidt said in a live CNBC broadcast last week. The sentence itself does not make that much sense as there is a huge difference between doing something and [...]
Facebook Launches Controversial Privacy Settings
About a week ago Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website. What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be. What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users. [...]