"Privacy" as used on this site is shorthand for the idea that personal data should be looked after, specifically data that is on the internet. It is also referred to as Data Privacy or Data Protection.
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How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?
I'd like to create a website with a very radical political message. It won't be unethical (encouraging violence, etc) but I feel the points I plan to list in it will definitely make me a lot of ...
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Is it sufficient to secure a order status page just by a random URL?
After a (corporate) customer bought some items in our online shop, we send an email with an overview what he has bought to him.
We'd like to inform our customer about received payments, packet ...
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Understanding the EU Cookie Directive Rules?
I work on a service that has multiple EU clients. The service is hosted and maintained in the US. Before I even worry about compliance, I'm trying to figure out whether my service needs to comply at ...
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Are there any legal implications to reading a user's privates messages on a forum?
I'm the webmaster of a forum and we are having trouble with a user and we suspect he uses privates messages to do illegal business (not illicit, but illegal according to the forum rules).
Are their ...
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how to keep a visitor 100% anonymous
Maybe a broad question, but how can you keep a visitor to your site 100% anonymous on your server. The site is written in PHP.
No trace of what he or she has visited on your site. Any suggestions?
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Is it possible to transfer a domain without a “gap” in Whois privacy protection?
I currently own several domains on which I am using a Whois privacy protection service to hide my personal details. In the near future, I would like to transfer some of these domains to a different ...
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How can I keep my privacy while owning multiple domain names?
I want to own, create and run few domains. I do not want 'whois' to have my name, home address and home phone available to anyone who looks me up.
I've already bought a mailbox that I can use for my ...
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Does AdSense script send website content to Google servers?
I am running a web application where I want to place context-sensitive ads in.
The content being displayed is private data of my users (not visible to the public), like email content and such. Thus, ...
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List of usage information to collect in a web application
I'm writing a web application that will allow people to create accounts, edit stuff, send stuff to people, &c. I plan on recording things like when things were created and sent and stuff.
Is ...
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Browser privacy improvement implications for websites
On https://panopticlick.eff.org/ EFF let you test the number of uniquely identifying bits that the browser gives a website. Among these are HTTP header fields such as User-Agent, Accept, ...
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How can I make my website compliant with various data protection and spamming laws?
On our website we collect an awful lot of personal information. People upload their CVs, and when they use their social networks to log in, we collect information from there too.
We use this ...
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Are there specific legal issues for web developers working on sex dating sites?
Say I have created many ordinary websites which are not related to any dating/sexual content.
Are the rules and regulations for a developer the same when making a sex-related dating site?
I'm ...
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Using gmail / Google apps affecting ranking
In the company i work in our boss has told us to stop using gmail for any kind of company communications including not using google apps anymore. He said that he was told that with the new Google ...
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Is logging personally identifiable information a bad practice or violation of law?
I know we all do semi-anonymous logging (server logs, Google Analytics, etc.). However, on one of our external web applications, we have some non-reproducible errors that the external users report ...
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Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on a site crime victims use to make 'anonymous' reports?
Our local police force have a website for rape victims to use to report attacks anonymously. At the top of the page is a 'Report anonymously' link, which takes you to a page using Google Analytics as ...
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Should I indicate that the user exists or was deleted on the error page?
On an ordinary public website, the user's profile is always publicly visible to all visitors (such as Stack Overflow), where they can limit certain pieces of information via privacy settings or just ...
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Is it possible to use Whois Guard on dot pro domains?
I have purchased two dot pro domains but the holder info is exposed.
Is it possible to use Whois Guard or the like on dot pro domains? If so, Do you know any service provider or registrar that offers ...
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Mailing list and privacy
I'm going to start a mailing list for my website and I'm concerned about my users' privacy (regarding their addresses, contents not allowed, etc.. I'm kind of new to these things). Is there any ...
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Amazon s3 webmaster privacy
If I am hosting a site on Amazon Web Services, how easy is it for someone to work out that I'm behind it, for example if it's a controversial campaign issue. WHOIS privacy with the domain registrar ...
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List of services for privatizing whois information
I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there ...
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Keeping files private on the internet (.htaccess password or software/php/wordpress password)
I was asked a while ago to setup a server such that only authenticated users can access files. It was like a test server for clients to view WIP sites. More recently, I want to do something similar ...
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Google analytics/adwords account and leaking of private data
I am frequently asked to log into clients google analytics and adwords accounts. If I forget to log out before visiting other google properties (google search, youtube etc), this leaves tracks of my ...
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Universal same-origin policy
Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology.
Is there a way that I can browse the ...
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Any Risk To Share Zone -file of a Website in Internet?
I have problem with DNS settings and I cannot find any other way than share my settings.
The Zone -file contains SOA record, A records, CNAME records, MX records and NS records.
Is there any danger ...
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How to change Bugzilla change privacy notice?
How can I change the privacy notice in both the site and email messages? My instance is not public facing. I don't like this:
PRIVACY NOTICE: Bugzilla is an open
bug tracking system. Activity on ...
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Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website?
<div id="papers" NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
content -- Does this work to block search engines to crawl me?
</div>
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Considerations & Vendors for hosting healthcare related data & sites in Europe
I am currently researching hosting vendors & services in Europe that I can use to build up websites & related web based applications for healthcare. Eventually we would like the users to be ...
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Is posting a document with a hand signature insecure? [closed]
Every once and a while, one of our departments would like to post a hand-signed document on the web site. Up until now I've scanned them in as a PDF and posted them without much thought, but recently ...
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What kind of information can websites collect about a user/client?
This is a multi-part question:
1) What kind of information can websites collect about someone (someone's computer or device) when they visit your website?
I know we log IP's, and can determine your ...
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General question as a new webmaster [closed]
I am wanting to make my own social forum for friends and workers. I will have about 10,000-15,000 users. I have never made a forum on such a high scale and to this point have only been a developer ...
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Transfer domain from godaddy to another registrar and (somewhat) maintain privacy?
Does anyone know if its possible in any ways to do this?
Transfer a private domain (via domainsbyproxy) registered at godaddy to another registrar.
While I know moving a domain from godaddy requires ...
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EU Cookie Law Clarification [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of ...
