Tag: privacy
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New Content Incoming, Site Privacy Downgrade
A small programming note as they might say on TV or whatever. I’ve been doing a terrible job sticking to my New Years Resolution to write a blog post every week. Not the biggest deal, resolutions are aspirational. Anyways, I’ve come up with a new type of content I want to try writing in the…
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privacy on ohryan.ca
May 2023 Update: I’ve decided to re-enable cloudflare. Three reasons: March 2023 Update: I’ve opt’d to disable the “embed privacy” plugin. I am planning on featuring more Twitter content and it just won’t be quite the same without the embeds. In terms of your privacy, be aware the provider of an embed (twitter, youtube, etc)…
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Services Should Help Us Remember
With the beginning of a new year decade everybody is posting retrospectives on anything and everything. For the most part, these retrospectives have to be complied manually by compiling data from different sources. I’d argue that our lives would be more interesting if more services give us easier ways to reflect on the content we’ve…
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How To Use Your iPhone to Stalk Yourself
It looks like the privacy hippies were finally right about something, your mobile phone really is a pocket sized tracking device. Turns out that as of iOS 4.0, iPhones have been tracking your physical movements and logging it along with the phone’s backups. A small team of researchers have discovered these logs in iTune’s backup…
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Canadian Tech News: October 19th – Why US Apps Hate Canada, Toddler Photos, Windows Phone 7, dot-ca
It’s been over a week since the last Canadian tech news roundup, so I’ll jump right into it: Michael Giest: Why are U.S. net services slow to migrate north There are countless examples of web services that take years to get here and even more that never make it. Michael Giest has an interesting column…