How advertisers track you and what information they collect (infographic)

With social buttons, cookies, and watching our online purchases, advertisers are compiling a lot more information about you than you think.

New patent: will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother?

Apple has just been awarded patent number 825265, which describes how Apple could create a cloned version of your digital identity in order to protect you from corporate or government electronic surveillance.

Privacy is dead, they say.

But data tracking …