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“AT&T: More stalkers in more places.”  Perhaps changing their tagline to this sentiment might help customers understand how the company knows where you are.  In this Gadgetell exclusive, we’ve uncovered what the giant telecom AT&T is doing to its customers and why it believes it is in the right.  This… Continue Reading »

Privacy experts are warning Netflix to cancel its upcoming research contest, citing serious concerns over the company’s plans to hand over user data to contestants.  The contest, like the one held previously, asks contestants to develop technology that will help it better predict what movies a customer will like.  On… Continue Reading »

If there’s one website out there that’s no stranger to privacy issues it has to be Facebook.  The social networking site has come under fire for its privacy policies and terms of service many, many times since its inception.  A group of five Facebook users have filed a lawsuit against… Continue Reading »

RFID is the future.  It is if you listen to Ericsson’s vice-president of systems architecture, Håkan Djuphammar.  Mr. Djuphammar expects every new cell phone to contain RFID chips by next year and these phones will usher in a whole new ecosystem of creative uses of the technology.  Could RFID be… Continue Reading »

We’ve all gotten them - official looking emails that look like they are from Paypal, eBay, our bank, or credit card company.  They usually say there is a problem with our account or something needs updating and to please click the convenient link provided and log in.  Dire consequences such… Continue Reading »

I’m a genius who is the reincarnation of the ever-breathy Marilyn Monroe.  I understand men 100%, and I’m also the cartoon character Dory as well as the Disney Princess Mulan.  No, I don’t have split personality disorder or any other kind of mental heath diagnosis (I think).  Just the results… Continue Reading »

Google has long been suspected of having too much information on its users.  From all the services it offers to its users (though its doubtful that any one person could possibly use all of them), to what they search for on the search engine.  It has a tendency to scare… Continue Reading »

Facebook has been quickly gaining on MySpace as the top social networking website.  However, MySpace has better luck capitalizing on site traffic while Facebook has struggled to make money through advertising.  As a way to reverse their fortunes, Facebook plans to start selling users’ personal information to market researchers. With… Continue Reading »

In what promises to be waay worse than the whole Y2K thingy, hackers have officially notified us that they are planning a massive attack to take over your machine.  Confirmed by privacy and security company, PC Tools (no jokes, please), the threat comes after analyzing more than 500,000 machines this… Continue Reading »

Oh my, oh my.  Just think of all the not so nice tracking you could do with this little gadget.  The new Zoombak Universal GPS Locator lets you know whenever it enters specific geographical zones.  How very stealthy.  A company spokesperson however, claims that Zoombak “does not condone or recommend… Continue Reading »