When was the last time you sat down and read through the entirety of a tech company’s privacy policy, even if you visit the site every day? In an article recently published by TIME in collaboration with the Center for Plain Language, a selection of the world’s leading and regularly visited tech websites were ranked […]![](https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=486579&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.avast.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.avast.com%2F2015%2F08%2F12%2Funderstanding-tech-companies-privacy-policies-and-their-effect-on-users%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress)
Social networks have become an integrated part of our lives. Facebook is not just a simple communication channel anymore but an important source of daily news, information about brands, as well as a selling platform. Thanks to mobile apps, we access it everywhere and anytime we want. As active consumers we should take even better […]![](https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=486579&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.avast.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.avast.com%2F2015%2F07%2F23%2F5-steps-to-secure-your-facebook-account-login%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress)
Most of us can agree that we don’t want our personal data falling into other people’s hands. This may seem like an obvious concept, but with the amount of data we regularly share online, it’s not such an uncommon occurrence that our information is wrongfully passed onto others. In this clever video published by Facebook […]
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Operador solitário de spam se fez passar por grandes marcas e estrelas de reality shows para promover spam de pílula de dieta milagrosa
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Un operador de spam solitario logró que grandes marcas y estrellas de TV promovieran pastillas milagrosas para bajar de peso
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Fake Flash Player updates fool Facebook users. Facebook users have fallen victim to a recycled scam, and we want to make sure that all of our readers are fore-warned. Cybercrooks use social engineering tactics to fool people into clicking, and when the bait comes from a trusted friend on Facebook, it works very well. Here’s […]
Posting a privacy notice on your Facebook feed does nothing to keep your updates, photos, or videos private. You need to tweak the settings yourself. You may have noticed a legal-sounding statement being shared on people’s Facebook News Feed lately. As we explained in the blog, Posting a privacy notice on Facebook is useless, […]
An old hoax has been resurrected after Facebook made a recent announcement about its updated privacy policy. The copyright message claims to protect users’ pictures, information, and posts under UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute. It’s seems so official; it just must be true, right? Here is an example that I saw […]
In last night’s broadcast of the Sugar Bowl, a showdown of two power-house college football teams in the USA, Allstate Insurance, aired a series of brilliant commercials about the risk of over-sharing on social networks. The social media team at Avast has been preaching this message for a while now, so we were happy to […]