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For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

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How to completely remove an issue from GitHub?

Is it possible to completely remove an issue from the GitHub issue tracker?
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Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer

I have two websites, let's say they're example.com and anotherexample.net. On anotherexample.net/page.html, I have an IFRAME SRC="http://example.com/someform.asp". That IFRAME displays a form for the user to fill out and submit to…
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Why does Google +1 record my mouse movements?

This is only on pages with a Google +1 box on my website: It seems to be firing off an event on every mouse move. Anyone know what it is doing? I searched on Google (perhaps I should try Bing for once on this one!) but no one seems to have…
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Does Git publicly expose my e-mail address?

The guides I've read so far on Git say that I should go into the config and specify my name and my e-mail address. They don't elaborate; they just say to do it. Why does Git need my e-mail address? And, more importantly, if I make my repo publicly…
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Why does Chrome use sec-ch-ua: "\"Not\\A;Brand";v="99"?

I understand that making user-agent hints more ambiguous is intended, in part, to make browser fingerprinting harder. My own (Windows desktop) Chrome sends the headers: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,…
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How to disable Google asking permission to regularly check installed apps on my phone?

I'm developing an Android app, which I therefore endlessly build and install on my test device. Since a couple days I get with every build/install a question asking Google may regularly check installed apps for potentially harmfull behaviour.…
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iOS6 UDID - What advantages does identifierForVendor have over identifierForAdvertising?

Apple is changing their privacy settings for iOS6 and deprecating device UUIDs (UDIDs). According to a WWDC presentation and the docs there are two replacements for the UDIDs, both in the UIDevice class: -identifierForVendor ID that is identical…
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How to generate and add privacy policy on Google Play?

I have to create and add a privacy policy to my Android app. My app accesses background geolocation data, so whatever policy I add has to include info about how location data is used. Two questions: Is there a standard approach to creating a…
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Security and Privacy of VSCode extensions

I see that VSCode has a lot of nice extensions. I am however concerned if those extensions are sending my code to any of their servers. Is there any way to find out? I could use fiddler and isolate calls that might be happening from the plugin - but…
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iOS 8 requestWhenInUseAuthorization no Popup

I tried to make my AppProject iOS 8 ready. I had read a lot about [_locationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization]; and the entry in plist NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription So I changed all the necessary code lines. It works fine, but now I have…
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How to contribute on github anonymously via Tor?

I would like to contribute anonymously to projects on github. Not to cause mischief, more in the spirit of anonymous donations. The tool of choice for being anonymous online seems to be TOR, which works well for almost anything you can do in a…
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Does a session cookie on different subdomain count as 3rd-party?

Suppose I have a site at www.example.com which has an IFRAME pointing to ASP.NET site myapp.othersite.com - this causes issues with session and 3rd-party cookies which I understand. If I moved the embedded app to myapp.example.com, would the session…
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Practical applications of homomorphic encryption algorithms?

It appears there there were interesting things going on in cryptography: the first homomorphic encryption scheme appeared recently (explanation, HT). Roughly speaking, it is a way of encoding x into f(x) such that you can compute f(x+y) easily…
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Programmatically Untag FB Photos with Javascript

I've spent the past hour hacking away at this: I want to write a Javscript routine to programatically untag myself from photos on Facebook. Once it works, I'll run it in the Firebug console and untag myself from all Facebook photos (there's no way…
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Prevent Google Glass from Auto-Uploading Photos

Google Glass automatically uploads every photo I take with it to Google's servers, and puts them in a private Google+ folder. I don't take nude pictures, I'm not a Google competitor and I have no interest in politics, but this is still too creepy…
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