Track the trackers, two utilities for online privacy

Not all people take care of online privacy, the web is a Narcissus place after all. Anyway since Facebook entered our life, privacy has become one of the most important topics of the digital age. Internet services are thirsty of personal data  and an army of never-heard companies work collecting info "under the hood". Two free tools help us to monitor their activities.

How the social media learn from us

Tell me the company you keep and I'll tell you who you are... and what you want. Web applications are becoming everyday smarter: Amazon guesses books we might like, YouTube proposes us videos of our interest and Facebook finds our friends before us. Nowadays the web is plenty of start-ups using its 2.0 interactive power to create new recommendation-oriented products. Teaching a machine to learn is definitely the new frontier of online implementation.

An Insight into ACTA

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multilateral enforcement treaty for the purpose of establishing an international standard regulation for counterfeit goods specially generic medicines and intellectual properties on the Internet. Initially developed secretly on 2006 by United States and the depositary Japan, has then been leaked on 2008 when Wikileaks uploaded a discussion paper on his website.

Raspberry Pi , the time of portable computers

Small as a credit card and intended to inspire a new generation of children to learn how to programme, the single-board computer launched on February 29 at the cost of £22 went sold out immediately forcing Raspberrypi.org to switch temporary to static site.

Iubenda, a privacy policy generator

Speaking about Facebook, Google or ACTA, since web 2.0 showed up privacy has become a daily-used word and website privacy policies required for law. This sound as time has come for services like Iubenda.

Start today the new Google privacy policy

Despite European Union warning Google goes ahead and replaces the old more than 60 different privacy policies with a single new one. On february 3 EU authorities,led by french data protection watchdog CNIL, asked for a "pause" to better analyse the new situation saying the giant might violate the European Data Protection Directive

Pinterest

Pinterest is a social photo sharing website launched on March 2010. Thought as a pinboard it allows users to create collections of images and videos uploading or simply pinning them from any webpage.

The second life of Guy Fawkes

Goodbye Che, rebellions have a new symbol. Stylized by graphic novelists Alan Moore and David Lloyd on V for Vendetta, made famous by Wachowsky Brother's film adaptation, the Guy Fawkes face is back to life. From the Gunpowder Plot on 1605 to nowadays protests against ACTA, the most burned man of the history doesn't feel the years spread all over the world by the web.

Memory on demand

Why should we keep in mind an information if something else do it for us? How can we even remember a thought without a moleskine, a travel when we forget the camera at home or even a party if there is no friend to recall it?