Web Security

I count myself lucky that my parents are relatively tech savvy—and they aren't afraid to call me with questions.  

Facebook has made another change to its privacy settings page. The changes are in response to the uproar about previous changes made by Facebook that made figuring out what personal information is visible to others pretty confusing. The new changes don't exactly fix that completely, but at least they're a little less cryptic.

Your home wireless network could be broadcasting your personal data to anybody who passes your house. And Google might have already collected some.

Google admitted yesterday that its Street View cars—the vehicles that collect ground-level images for Google Maps—had been a bit more agressive about collecting information about the neighborhoods they drove through than Google had intended. 

Who would brag to their social network that they were at a McDonalds? Well, your teen might. And McDonald's and Facebook are going to start to take advantage of that impulse to drive social network advertising.