If you are a WordPress user and you use the plug-in “Twitme” to automatically post any new blog entries to your WordPress account, then there is something you need to know.

It is unwritten law that if you are going to collect someone’s personal information through an application, or web application that you will notify them accordingly.

Unfortunately, not everyone follows this unwritten law, which is now standard and considered a moral obligation of website, and application authors and publishers. Here we take a look at one good example of this standard being ignored from a popular plug-in for WordPress, “Twitme”. Continue Reading

A very popular addon extension for Mozilla Firefox, Video DownloadHelper, allows users to easily save and convert media originally embedded into web content into a file stored on their local machine for offline playback.

Typically when software publishers desire to make their works available online, whether for free or for a fee, they seek to publish legal documentation for inclusion of the application clearly indicating that the program is copyrighted, and to identify their terms and conditions of modification to their work by third parties, including any limitations or bounds set by them. Continue Reading