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Social networking privacy – inviting your friends to sign up

This post on social networking sites’ data privacy follows on from three previous articles:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues – signing up
Social networking privacy – where are your details stored?

Let’s say for argument’s sake that you think that all this privacy stuff is fair and you sign up for some of these [...]


Social networking privacy – where are your details stored?

This post follows on from two previous social networking posts:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues – signing up

Interestingly, out of the eight sites that I looked at, six process and store data in the US, where data protection laws are notoriously lax compared to the UK. For a start, the Privacy [...]


Social networking privacy issues – signing up

Part one of this series of articles summarised which social networking sites I was going to take a look at from a data privacy standpoint – I’m hoping that if you read it, you found it interesting and will want to read this next article.
If you didn’t read it, you might want to take a [...]


Interview with beNi

BlogSecurity introduces an interview with Benjamin Flesch, ‘beNi’, who works as a Security Consultant in Germany.
BlogSecurity: Hello beNi, firstly, thanks very much for taking the time to do this interview with us.
You’re only 18 years old, what is your security experience so far?
beNi: ‘Security experience’ is hard to talk about. At the beginning I learned [...]


Interview with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress

Matt Mullenweg, the founder developer of WordPress, has been kind enough to take the time to answer some questions that I recently put to him. Here’s what Matt says about himself on his website:
“I am the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs much of this site and thousands of other sites [...]