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BugMeNot is an Internet service that provides usernames and passwords allowing Internet users to bypass mandatory free registration on websites.It was started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, later revealed to be Guy King, [1] and allowed Internet users to access websites that have registration walls (for instance, that of The New York Times) with the requirement of compulsory registration.
The gathering of personally identifiable information (PII) refers to the collection of public and private personal data that can be used to identify individuals for various purposes, both legal and illegal. PII gathering is often seen as a privacy threat by data owners, while entities such as technology companies, governments, and organizations ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
Unbeknownst to many, certain commonplace behaviors — which we might dismiss as harmless or trivial — can actually be illegal. Find out if you're guilty of these 12 things.
It never took effect, as three separate rounds of litigation led to a permanent injunction against the law in 2009. Had the law passed, it would have effectively made it an illegal act to post anything commercial on the internet that is knowingly harmful to children without some sort of vetting program to confirm user ages. [27] [28] [29] [30]
Cookies make more websites free to use without any type of payment. Some of these benefits are also seen as negative. For example, one of the most common ways of theft is hackers taking one's username and password that a cookie saves. While many sites are free, they sell their space to advertisers.
It may come as a surprise, but all of these things are legal in the U.S., at least in some parts. The post 18 Things You Think Are Illegal but Aren’t appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Google, Facebook and Yahoo News all generate newsfeeds based on the information they know about our devices, our location, and our online interests. [86] Although two people can search for the same thing at the same time, they are very likely to get different results based on what that platform deems relevant to their interests, fact or false. [86]