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

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is it normal behaviour for an iOS app to go back to its home screen when users make a change to privacy settings?

My iOS app need full access to the users contact for certain functions. If the user refuses this access and later tries to access one of those functions I put up an alert that tells them they need to give permission and the option to go to the…
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Does Google store and use data used for googleVis visualisations?

I'd like to create some interactive charts using googleVis package in R but I am a bit hesitant as I am not sure if Google will store the data I want to visualize. I have read their terms and conditions [https://developers.google.com/terms/ ]…
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Array Privacy Java - Basic

I'm sorry for (another) admittedly quite basic question, but I'm having more problems in some Java code that I have to right for class. The assignment is to do a sieve of Eratosthenes program, and while my constructor seems to work (calling…
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Facebook App - Page Tab - restrict/remove ability to install

I've built a facebook application (Page Tab) using instructions found here stackoverflow.com/questions/21048882/facebook-2014-how-to-create-a-simple-page-with-an-iframe-inside. The application is just showing some remote page (built in .Net 4.0 by…
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Firefox autofill only email

i'm totally new to this kind of practices so maybe i'm going to ask a stupid question, mostly because i couldn't find anything googling around. I'm using Firefox 36 and i modified it so that it saves my passwords without asking me any time and this…
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Can someone find my EC2 information?

I have an AWS EC2 instance and I run a nodejs server for a website. You can easily find out the IP and the service provider (in my case Amazon), but my question is: can you find out more information (i.e. name, country) about the person who owns the…
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User Profile Privacy screen with comma separated String

I have a listView with many fields and CheckBox next to each field. Screen similar to a FaceBook Profile screen with Privacy setting to each field. So friends can not see those fields if marked as Private. On selection of CheckBox, i have to create…
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Browsing activities outside the visited website

Is there a way a Web site can learn something about your browsing activities outside of this Web site from an HTTP request sent to the Web site by your browser?
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How does google know about my youtube preferences when I use private Firefox window?

I launched Firefox in private mode and opened youtube. The first thing I see is recommended videos based on my prevoius watches. But I am not logged in, I am in private mode, why does youtube suggests this to me? I think it's privacy violation. Am I…
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Facebook share restrict the "only me" option

Using the FB Share dialog, is there a way to prevent the user from selecting "Only Me" in the custom privacy settings? Thanks! Uri
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How to honour user privacy settings in Meteor

I have a set of users defined like this: Accounts.createUser({ username:'Simon', email:'simon@email.com', profile:{ firstname:'Simon', lastname:'Surname', location:'Home Address', privacy: { …
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What is the best way to prevent visitors from accessing website in development?

What is the best way to prevent visitors from accessing a website in development stage? Something in the lines of a 'whitelist'. In my particular case I am using WordPress as the platform for creating this website. I searched for plugins but didn't…
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Make my local nginx server private

Is it possible to make my local nginx server private from the wifi network I use. I've juste realized that anybody can access my local webapp with the public ip the wifi network give to me (typing it in the browser), and I dont want that... Thanks
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Prevent apache from logging sensitive data in access.log

we are using a system to allow users to change their passwords via (preauthenticated) requests like https://ourserver.com/change_password?user=USERNAME&new_pass=PASSWORD. For convenience we would like to log the first part of the query (a user tried…
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Where are Google API permissions thoroughly documented?

Are the Google API permissions thoroughly documented anywhere? For example, what does the permission youtube.readonly actually mean? I see the rough title in English as “View your YouTube account”, but that’s too vague and generally broad to be of…
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