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Need protection against shoulder-surfers and visual hackers? | Notebook displays with wide viewing angles are nice. Sometimes, however, we need some privacy and don’t want others to see our screen contents, ...
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I thought the revelation of Facebook’s privacy breach last month was bad, but that was it and we’d all move on, which for some people could mean to still just continue using Facebook. However, it seems the bad news ...
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On 1 April, Cloudflare announced a new DNS service, one which they have described as the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service. That day is April Fool’s Day, but Cloudflare’s announcement assured us it is real, ...
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The Facebook privacy breach kerfuffle that unfolded last week is a timely reminder that we need to care about our privacy on the Internet. Many of us don’t think about that enough. Some, perhaps, don’t even understand ...
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I’ll admit I’m not much of a Windows fan. Among the many reasons, one of them would be the presumption that Windows is surreptitiously sending data about my computer to Microsoft servers, and perhaps the NSA, MI5/MI6, ...
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When I first heard about Singapore Technologies Electronics new facial recognition system that can be used at MRT fare gates to identify commuters and charge them in a post-paid manner thereafter, my first thought was that, oh ...
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Some of us worry that Google, Facebook, and others too, know too much about us. For example, do they listen to us? Like, for example, every time you voice something to Google with “Okay Google”, what happens? They ...
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Tomorrow, the full force of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) comes into effect. It’s purpose is to protect individuals from unscrupulous use of personal data by organisations. We are more concerned than ...
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Happy New Year! It’s the second day of 2014, and among many other things that will start today, one big thing that we can all look forward to is that our phones should ring less. Today, Singapore’s Do Not Call (DNC) ...
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We all expect a certain level of privacy, but many of us know deep down in our hearts that nothing’s a secret on the Internet. So it should not come as too much of a surprise that companies like Facebook have cooperated ...
