Shhh!
It's only obvious if you think about it.
Five
Things Google Probably Knows About You
…
When it boils down to it,
Google is a business and businesses need to know their customers.
This means you’re slotted into a demographic slot: basically,
that’s your gender and
age.
…
You don’t need an account
for Google to know your interests and hobbies, though. Your computer
stores cookies
…
Google uses this information
to get to know you better. It knows what sites you go on
(just open up Chrome and your most frequented sites will be listed),
how long you spend on each, what links you click on (used to
determine an article’s relevance to your search), and even your
attention span, factored in by your scrolling and the amount of
time you peruse a page.
…
Google knows where you
live from your IP address, a unique code sent from your Internet
Service Provider to whatever devices you use to go online through
your router. Storing this sort of data means Google can provide
location-specific results.
And
if you’ve ever used My Location on Google Maps in order to get
directions from your home to a shopping centre or holiday hotspot,
utilising information like IP addresses, the Internet giant can
determine with surprising accuracy where you are in the world.
…
If you have Gmail, you’ve already agreed to Google’s Terms
of Service, meaning they can automatically scan your emails
for keywords in order to, once more, tailor your search results and
ads
…
When You Use The Internet
“We
like surveillance so much that we'll offer funding to anyone who can
make it simple enough for a caveman to do it.” (Asked: €15,000
Received: €113,000+)
3D
Pocketcopter - the flying camera
…
The Pocketcopter itself is
powered by a 12V battery (rechargeable or replaceable) and is
controlled via the touch screen of your smartphone.
The
connection is via WiFi (similar to the remote control of the GoPro)
or Bluetooth.
…
Currently we
don’t have a fully working prototype, the photos in
campaign are computer renderings of what we envision the device to
look like.
It's
a digital world.
You
Got Served, Via Facebook
Legal
papers can now be served via Facebook, with a judge ruling the social
network counts as a form of contact. Magistrate Gregory Gliedman
accepted that Facebook
counts as legal contact in the case of a Staten Island man
notifying his wife he was ending child support payments as their son
had turned 21. After failing to find her in the real world, Noel
Biscocho served his ex-wife via Facebook. So, if you really don’t
want to be found, you may want to close
your Facebook account as soon as possible.
Something
for my Computer Security class to explore.
Google
and Dropbox partnered at ‘Simply Secure’ for easy to use security
tools
… In a similar direction Google and Dropbox, with the help of
Open
Technology Fund have partnered up to start an initiative
known as Simply Secure. It will transform the security technology in
such a way so that it becomes transparent to the end users. The
group will collaborate with other open source developers, designers
and researchers in order to handle projects like Open Whisper
Systems, The Guardian Project, Off-the-Record Messaging and much
more.
…
Simply Secure initiative will basically work on the following four
principles:
1. To provide a positive, accessible and user centered Internet by
making a trustworthy security and privacy system.
2. Privacy and security shall be intuitive.
3. The technology should accept the fact that user’s security is
its main concern.
4. The security technology shall be made transparent to the end
users.
I
don't think these are only Windows 8.1 Apps, but you may need to
search for earlier versions.
For
students and teachers to have a great school year: Top ten Back to
School apps for Windows 8.1
We've
highlighted the ten apps that are available in Microsoft's
Back to School collection, available in the Windows Store.
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