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Google Reader’s two privacy mistakes

( Privacy )

Last month, Google Reader started sharing all “shared” items in your feeds with all of your Gmail contacts. If you’d shared, for example, a single item with just your spouse or lawyer or business partner, that item suddenly appeared for all your Gmail contacts. Since your Gmail contacts include everyone you’ve ever sent email to [...]

Privacy is important

( Mosuki andPress andPrivacy )

Nobody protects your privacy as carefully as Mosuki does… not even Google.

Google calendar: sharing gone wild!

( Privacy andSecurity )

We posted eight months ago about Google calendar’s lack of respect for private data. Chris Pirillo has a found a clever demonstration of this: just search for “user password” in public events, and you’ll come up with a huge list of usernames and passwords of all sorts. We’re not holding our breath for Google to [...]

Always public isn’t always right

( Mosuki andPrivacy )

The all-public, all the time nature of the newly popular microblogging site Twitter just bit one of its users. Here’s what happened. Steve Rubel, a senior executive of major marketing company Edelman posted that one of the company’s clients, PC Magazine, “goes in the trash,” despite his “free sub[scription].” Whoops. Now, PC Magazine is probably [...]

Mosuki’s new clothes

We hope you like Mosuki’s new design. We do. Lots. Send us comments, complaints or any feedback here. Many thanks to Sandy, who provided us with this much-needed facelift. There are some other changes too. You’ll notice that we now have delicious and reddit buttons on published events, as well as the old digg buttons. [...]

“Caveat user” is a cop out

( Mosuki andPrivacy )

Remember the big faux pas that you committed when you first sent email, or first participated in an online discussion forum, or first visited a chat room? Remember the experienced net-heads telling you to get a clue, newbie? Maybe you responded to a mailing list or used reply-to-all when sending a personal note, or spammed [...]

Why Google calendar doesn’t work with Mosuki

( Mosuki andPrivacy )

Some people have asked us how to use Google calendar to subscribe to their Mosuki calendar.