A useful site that lists many of the most common socialmedia sites, with direct links to the areas to delete your account.

One person's experience of a posthumous tweeting service. Read the article here.

An essay on privacy, sharing and why we as a society are ill prepared for social media. Read the essay here.

'Google, more than perhaps any other company, is aggressively putting sensors and the software to activate them into our environment.

The just-unveiled Moto X phone... has a custom microchip that allows it to listen for voice commands literally all the time, even when the phone is "asleep". Google's Chrome web browser now supports voice commands; that means it's also rolled into every Chrome OS notebook computer.

Google's face-based computer, Google Glass, responds to voice commands...voice is a dominant theme in the future of Google, and is clearly slated to make its way into every product the company makes.'

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Infographic clearly shows how the information we share makes it easy for burglars to target us.

'Produced by Antwerp-based communications agency Duval Guillaume for Febelfin, Belgium's financial sector federation, the terrifying 'See How Easily Freaks Can Take Over Your Life' video urges for increased caution when banking online.' via designtaxi.com