Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, wants kids under 13 years of age to be allowed to use social networking sites. Though there are millions of kids already using Facebook who are under 13, Zuckerberg wants to make it legal as Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) restricts websites from collecting personal information of children under the age of 13.

The National Security Agency is allegedly building a supercomputer whose speed can be measured in exaFLOPS. This supercomputer will cost about $895.6 million and will be an asset to the NSA’s cryptology department. The NSA supercomputer is to be built by 2015

The internet has always been obsessed about itself. Its narcissistic tendencies have been the driving factor in the making of data visualization about its own technologies, semantic web technology and other endless lists full of the emerging science of the hive mind and the self’s position in this meta-world. Did you understand that previous paragraph? [...]

European Union’s Data Retention Directive, a law operating in Europe has failed at fighting crime in spite of the 148000 user data requests and privacy breach.

Law enforcement and defense agencies want to know everything you do online, just in case you are doing something wrong. Do you want the politicians to enable this in a new law?

US courts are increasingly trying to use Facebook data as evidence and are repeatedly granted access to private content of users.

Facebook’s new Instant Personalization feature shares your data with third party websites without your consent. Here is how you can disable Instant Personalization on Facebook.

Microsoft Developer Network blogger shows off easy way to monitor HTTP and HTTPS traffic coming from a Windows Phone 7 device.

According to recent reports, Twitter is being forced to sing like a canary. The U.S. Department of Justice has issued secret subpoenas to Twitter, and possibly others, such as Facebook and Google. WikiLeaks and anyone involved with them are the targets.

California judges apparently don’t value personal rights as much as other places around the world. Police there now can seize all of your cell phone data when you are arrested – for any reason.

Do you want political appointees controlling the internet inside the US borders? It’s beginning to look like there may no longer be a choice.

Completely disable third party tracking. Disconnect disables third party tracking on major websites including Google, Facebook, Digg, Twitter and Yahoo among others.

Google has admitted for the first time that its Street View cars actually collected usernames and passwords. This will fuel the investigations in France and Germany.

Zynga games is being sued by a Facebook user who is really angry that Farmville leaked his personal info. See image for rhetorical arguments.

Facebook has added two new security features to protect you against malwares and other threats – Remote Logout and One-time Passwords.