Wow, Google. That's a Facebook level of fail.

Facebook just eliminated your ability to block people from searching for you by name. Here's a guide for tweaking what's left.

A new product from a team of former Googlers makes its easy to search without sharing the data with anyone else. The company says it's proving popular -- which could one day be trouble for Google and ad firms that depend on data.

On the ECPA.

Do you require your students to blog in class? Do they post their blogs publicly? Have you worried about legal, ethical, or FERPA issues? We talked about all of this in a recent meeting of the Duke

The 1973 hit LEAVE ME ALONE by Helen Reddy.
With various images from her Career .
Hope you enjoy this classic tune .
Alan

Keeping tabs on civilian phones? There's more than one way to skin that cat.

Tech kerfuffles can be so confusing. There has been some media froth over USA Today’s recent report that Google is considering replacing third-party...

I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.

The company's latest acquisition gives it creepy powers that advertisers would die for.

Lyrics:
I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain

I think this place is full of spies
I think I'm ruined
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you, this river's full of lost sharks
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

NSA infiltrating standards bodies to get encryption weakened, as well as putting moles in telcos and ISPs. Greeeeeeeeeeeat.

Bruce Schneier: The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways we can protect ourselves

Perhaps the scariest part of data mining is the not knowing: What do these data brokers have on me? How do they see me in terms of marketing prey? Where…

SERIOUSLY?! I cannot even.

"I then, somewhat casually, mentioned that if the students did not want their backups to be spied upon, they should probably use a different service such as SpiderOak."