Homeland Security Digs Social Media
Big Brother metaphors are well-worn territory in an age of advanced technology, ubiquitous camera surveillance, and expanded federal power, but there is even more evidence that Homeland Security monitors more web activity than previously thought. According to a “privacy compliance review,” HSD keeps track of online activity on forums, blogs, websites and message boards. For example, an innocuous comment related to a biological strain being researched by Huntingdon Life Sciences animal testing might land you under the watchful gaze of the federal government, simply because of the word ‘strain’ apparently.
While this isn’t particularly surprising news, what is a bit unusual is that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are listed right up next to controversial file-leaking sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome.
Backupify Assists You To Backup Your On the net Accounts
With the coming of Web 2.0 and superior web services to share and handle data, it appears that after some years people won’t be worried about the operating system any longer. (Google Chrome OS is one other step in that direction)
What I mean is, imagine the time you spend on the web. Whether it be on communicating on Facebook or Twitter, placing images to Flickr, mailing via Gmail, saving bookmarks on Delicious..it’s all taking place online. None of the information is on your computer. It’s all online or maybe the way they say, “It’s all in the cloud.”
Backupify is a internet based program that is meant as a one-stop safe-keeping alternative for this data. It assists you back-up your Facebook data, your Twitter stream, backup Flickr photos, Gmail and many other services.
How to Unblock Facebook at School or at Work?
Facebook is one of the largest social network on this planet and is growing at a rapid pace. The reason that Facebook is so popular among all ages is its highly interactive interface, you can do all sorts of things in Facebook, like playing games with your friends, send them gifts, poke them etc etc. Not only that it keeps you connected with your friends and family all the time.
So what if some one tries to snatch all the fun by blocking Facebook? Certainly this will make you disturbed and angry. There are many places such as schools, colleges, workplaces etc, where you feel the urge to connect with friends, but can’t.
How to Avoid Facebook Profile from being Indexed on Search Engines?
Sometimes Facebook fans claim that their Facebook profile is being indexed by major Search Engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and Live etc, thus exposing their privacy. This holds true, even if I enter my name; i.e. ‘Musab Zain’ in Google, the first result that appears on Google is of my Facebook profile. Indeed its a serious issue.
The good news is that you can edit the settings and STOP Google and other search engines from indexing your Facebook profile forever. The process is very simple and anyone can follow it. Here’s what you have to do;
