You will need to edit your personal Privacy Settings AND your approved Application Settings to ensure that your location information can’t be inadvertently shared with FB apps your friends are using.
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Data roaming bill nightmares – any tips?
am about to google my arse off to find out how I should configure my iPhone before heading overseas later this year to avoid huge bills. Obviously turn off push notifications and turn off roaming and use local wireless wherever possible: what else?
Quickhit: internet filter on backburner
Sen. Conroy announced today that the mandatory filter is going to be put onto the back-burner until an independent inquiry has been held.
Phishing scam alert: “Your tax refund is here. Very important!”
I just received an email from “support@ato.guv.au” – this is a dummy email address that resolves to the phisher’s domain.
National Deafblind Awareness Week
I hadn’t especially considered whether improvements could be made here for those who are Deafblind, and I have no idea (yet) what their specific needs are for web access.
It’s now on my to-do list.
*Now* they’re talking about hiving off Telstra infrastructure?
The old Telecom Australia should never have been privatised as an integrated entity in the first place.
Share a Gadget, Tip, Trick, Fix or Hack
Ingenious people keep on coming up with great ideas for making things easier. Not just online, everywhere. What have you come across lately?
Crowdsourcing: ideas for an anti-filter website
I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).
The lamb roast roundup: Mums and censorship
Feminist criticism of the “It’s Time to Tell Mum” anti-filtering campaign has shown up on several blogs:
Iinet, Censorship, and Conroy’s Lies
The government’s $128.8 million Cyber Safety policy includes forcing internet service providers to block access to a secret blacklist of website pages identified as ”refused classification” by the Australian police. Web pages will be nominated for blacklisting by Australian internet users who come across illegal or ”unacceptable” websites.
Hoyden About Town 