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Google Data Liberation: Taking Data With You

If you've used online photo services such as AOL Pictures, Sony's ImageStation and countless other smaller-named sites, you're no doubt familiar with the problem of data loss and data migration. These sites held your data (your photos) and when they went under, they had to remove it from their servers. Giving your data back to you in the form of disks and high-res downloads would have cost these services money - which they didn't have, of course, because they were bankrupt. And so, in some cases, you were confronted with the most perverse outcome imaginable: paying for your pictures! This is...

Facebook Dangers: The Dangers of Facebook, British Intelligence Edition

After you've figured out how to spy on your kids and exercise near-dictatorial control over your child's video game console, you've got to worry about the Internet. We'll address viruses and other threats in the future, but for now, let's marvel at the example of one John Sawyers. He is, by all accounts, an amiable chap. His Facebook account has photos of him wearing a Santa hat, cavorting shirtless on the beach, and generally having a good time with his family. His wife has generously detailed family activities on the popular social networking site to keep friends and family up-to-date...