
TO GO WITH Singapore-vote-politics-Internet-society,FOCUS by Philip Lim
This photo taken on May 10, 2011 shows the Facebook website of opposition National Solidarity Party member Nicole Seah in Singapore. Political debutante Nicole Seah, 24, may have lost in the Singapore general elections, but she has undisputedly won the battle for the virtual hearts and minds of Singaporeans. Seah, 24, had close to 97,000 "likes" on her public Facebook page on May 10, overtaking a page set up by supporters of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, 87.A Facebook profile page. (Roslan RahmanAFP/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— San Francisco’s Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new plug-in that tells people whether they’re being tracked while online. You can install the program on either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, which are two of the more popular browsers.
When you go to a site, a panel (for lack of a better term) comes up that tells you how many trackers there are. I looked at a site and there were 18 trackers, but they were for the most part, benign.
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