How To Track Who’s Tracking You

As you navigate through the web, your browsing data is constantly being spread to various companies. In an effort to help users track this, Mozilla has developed an add on for Firefox called Collusion. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. Not all tracking is negative, however when users are tracked without consent it is wrong and hopefully this tool will aid in eliminating this trend in the future.

Mozilla has partnered with The Ford Foundation in hopes that they will enable users to not only see who is tracking them across the Web, but also to turn that tracking off when they want to.

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Loss Prevention for your Devices

In today’s society, theft is a common occurrence. Until now, most of the methods to protect your electronic equipment were quite costly. An alternative to this is to use Prey. Prey is open source software, which means that it is free to use. Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen.
Recently, during the riots in London, a man’s house was ransacked and his Macbook was stolen. Luckily he had already installed Prey on his system. By doing so he was able to find vital information about the laptop’s whereabouts and informed the police. Check out the full story here.

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