People are using their phones more and more as their everything device. It does everything except gives them a bath. One of the things you may feel you have no control over is who can call or message you. Taking control of your phone is a little more than managing your contacts.
What if you decide to change your phone number and the person who had it before you signed up for all kinds of services to text message information to them? Or maybe they had a lot of bill collectors or a persistent ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend? All of these are pretty realistic things that can happen.
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Facebook has recently unveiled a facial recognition feature that can associate your face and your accountand automatically enabled “auto-suggest photos of you to friends” feature to all users. What this means is that when your friend uploads a (unglamorous) photo of you (or someone that looks like you), Facebook will auto-suggest your name so your friend can tag you in the photo. I am not sure about you, but there are occasions where I don’t want my name to appear in the photo (no one want to remember those unglamorous times), least allowing Facebook to auto-suggest my name for tagging.
Parents have a lot to worry about when their kids want to start using the internet. With all the scams and creepy people out there, most parents dread the day their children ask for permission to join Facebook.
We all know that Facebook has released a new feature – Places that 
Have you ever felt that you are being watched in whatever you do online? Websites seem to know who you are and can greet you with your name when you visit them. Google always seems to know what you are searching, even before you started the search. Getting scared? Perhaps it’s time to turn your privacy filter on.
My last article detailed Facebook’s new privacy settings. While these settings have simplified much of the privacy options available, there are still a number of settings that are so deeply buried that it is often difficult to find and change. Hence, I 
A while back I 
Google knows a lot about you. To date, they’ve been pretty good about handling that information responsibly, but many people are still concerned over the quality and quantity of information held by the search giant. Additionally, other websites have learned to expect that we all use Google and have created tools to harvest as much of that information as possible, often without the user’s knowledge or consent. Google has added some new tools and policies to give more control to the users, and there are some third-party tools and plugins to protect your information from Google and others. This guide will demonstrate some of the simple ways you can choose for yourself what information you give out when using various Google products like Gmail, Chrome, and even the standard web search. Some of these tools limit what Google can see about you, others are meant to limit what information others can gather while using Google products.
In the past month there has been a great uproar over Facebook’s laissez faire attitude towards the privacy of their users. A wonderful 
We just received a tip off from IObit that they are celebrating their 5th anniversary and is giving off their Advanced SystemCare PRO Edition for FREE for a limited time. 