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Requiring OmniAuth

A small note in the “in case I need this again” cat­egory. I’m writ­ing a Sinatra app and want to add Twit­ter OAuth for sign­ing in. A good way to do this appears to be with the omni­auth gem but I ran into an issue. require ‘oa-oauth’ is the doc­u­mented way to require the right […]

2011 08 31 Technology Comments (0)

Facebook Privacy Settings

I’ve writ­ten in this blog before about Facebook’s pri­vacy issues, and the import­ance of mak­ing sure the pri­vacy set­tings in your Face­book pro­file match what you want to have hap­pen to your per­sonal data. Brian pos­ted on this same topic and has some good points and detailed instruc­tions; the com­ments are also worth read­ing. I […]

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2007 12 07 Comments (0)

Bob Sutor on Privacy

Bob Sutor has a good post­ing on some of the same pri­vacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues post­ing, in more depth and with some dif­fer­ent nuances. Worth read­ing and thinking about.

2007 11 14 Comments (1)

Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri­vacy, secur­ity, copy­right — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take pri­vacy for example. On many social net­work­ing sites people sign up and then put in all their per­sonal inform­a­tion simply because there’s a field there for it. […]

2007 11 13 Presentations Comments (3)

Customizing Google

For those, like me, who are some­what privacy-oriented, and use Fire­fox as their browser, I recom­mend using the Cus­tom­ize Google exten­sion. I set it up to use https for access­ing Google docs, reader, and cal­en­dar, and to anonym­ize the Google ID for search­ing. You can also anonym­ize the Google ana­lyt­ics cookie, which I’m not doing […]

2007 11 04 Comments (0)

Children’s Privacy

If you have chil­dren, or an interest in pri­vacy, spend the time and watch the video of Pro­fessor Valerie Steeves dis­cuss­ing how children’s web sites mon­itor their vis­its. It’s scary. [Link from Michael’s Geist’s blog.] After see­ing this, I won­der why the schools here don’t teach more about pri­vacy. When we were last in Australia, […]

2007 10 23 Comments (1)