Who is spying you on internet

who is spying

Mozilla's Firefox is the world's second most popular web browser. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives users an instant view of which companies are -watching- them as they browse, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. 

The move comes the same week that Google pushed ahead with its controversial new privacy policy, built to provide even more data for Google's twenty eight billion advertising business -- despite concerns that the harvesting of private data might be illegal in many countries. 

The add-on will allow users to -pull back the curtain- on web advertising firms and other third parties that track people's online movements, says Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs. 

Google's business is built on advertising - the company earned $28 billion from its Ad-Words service in 2010. 

Google's new privacy policy allows it to --streamline-- data from Android phones, YouTube, Gmail and web browsing to target its adverts even more precisely towards individual web users. 

Mozilla's Firefox is the world's second most popular web browser, a position under threat from Google's own Chrome browser. The Collusion add-on is an official Mozilla product, and was unveiled at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference this week by Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.

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One million dollars to expose Chrome bugs

one million dollars offer

                                 A offer for hackers, one million dollars to expose Chrome bugs

Google would pay up to one million dollars in prizes to hackers who can expose bugs and vulnerabilities in their browser (Chrome). Calling it a --big learning opportunity--- Google staffers Chris Evans and Justin Schuh unveiled three ways in which hackers can win the cash by finding flaws in their technology.

A top prize of 60,000 dollars will go to each hacker who can find a =---Full Chrome exploit---, a flaw that exists exclusively in Chrome.  The next prize of 40,000 $ will be paid to those who can find a ---Partial Chrome exploit--- a bug or flaw in Chrome that may also exist in other programs. 

Lastly, Google will give 20,000 dollars ---Consolation rewards--- to hackers who expose bugs of ---exploits--- that are not specific to Chrome, but affect users of all Internet browsers, The New York Daily News reports.  "We will issue multiple rewards per category, up to the 1 million dollar limit, on a first-come-first served basis,"  the Google Chrome Security Team said in a blog post. 

Each winner will also score a Chromebook, the report said. Earlier Facebook also offered incentives to programmers who can help expose bugs. 

The social networking giant began giving out "White Hat Bug Bounty Program" Visa cards last year, doling out thousands of dollars to hackers who found flaws and paying them on an exclusive debit card, which can be used just like a credit or ATM card.

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