A new report by WSJ says that several Facebook applications transmit personal IDs outside Facebook, thus giving access to your name and in some cases your friends names to advertising and internet tracking companies.

Will Diaspora be a win or a fail? Only time will tell as this open source Facebook competitor nears it’s first release.

Facebook is making phone numbers of personal contacts public on the Facebook iPhone app. This is caused by a technical glitch in the Facebook’s Contact Sync.

Now there is a new service called Togetherville. They promise to make it safer for kids to get together online. It may not be perfect, but it’s a lot better than letting your 11 year old use Facebook.

Are you sick of the privacy problems at Facebook? A project started by 4 kids at NYU may be the cure. Some people are calling it the Anti-Facebook project.

Facebook has rolled out new simplified permissions for third-party applications that need to access your data on Facebook.

What most of you have not heard, is that the destination of this information superhighway may not be what you had hoped. Where is it leading us?

The behavior of these apps can put our personal data at risk. The open nature of the Android Market can be abused to turn Android Phones into remote bots.

Responding to criticism from users, Facebook has unveiled a new simplified privacy control system. Find out what is new and what has changed.

Google has released browser add-on which will allow users to block the Google Analytics javascript from reporting users computer back to Google.

OpenBook lets you search the public Facebook updates and shows how messed up Facebook’s privacy settings are.

For those who need to encrypt files, AxCrypt integrates it’s actions into the Windows right click menus. This makes it an easy to use solution for security and privacy.

What.app uses various tools to rate apps and websites and Twitter and iPhone apps fared well whereas Facebook was slapped on the face with a score of two.

A board of companies including non-profit companies, private companies and others have joined hands to protect the privacy of people over the Internet. The board has tech giants like Google, Microsoft and others as its members.

Mozilla has discovered that Private Browsing Mode (PBM) in Firefox is partially broken, and browsing data get stored even if a user has enabled PBM.