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privacy
Your school district might be forcing your kid to share too much information
Recently, many school districts in many states have reached agreements with a company to assist kids, and in some states adults, in taking online assessments to tell them what types of jobs they should have. All have different names but perform the same function. It is geared to help adults and students understand their interests… »
Facebook privacy combinations leave data open to search engines
A recent article on TheNextWeb spotlighted a possible data leak for Facebook Notes to search engines. The original report showed how using a simple Google query would bring up Notes from Facebook even with profiles set to private.
Facebook soon responded that yes, the user profiles are private, but the Notes section for the users was… »
Facebook friends might be hackers
A recent rash of hackers have decided that emailing you and asking for money is just not the way to go. Now, hackers are getting into the social networks and assuming identities of others and asking for money.
One of the common ploys now is to pretend that the person they are imitating is out of… »
Facebook apps stealing your data? Facebook shuts some down
We often give you insight into controlling the data you share across the networks and teaching the kids on what should be considered good sharing and bad sharing. This falls into reputation control.
Apparently some apps were pulling your credentials and starting to spam your contacts with phishing sites. Trend Micro are reported to have uncovered… »
Sued for privacy concerns – Facebook isn’t the the real cause
The San Francisco Chronicle just ran an article "Facebook sued over privacy concerns " outlining who and why they are being sued. I can summarize the entire thing in a couple sentences:
User joins a site in the past, present or future.
User does not read any of the privacy or Terms of Use data on the… »
Facebook Photo Privacy walkthrough screencast
One of the intimidating features and daunting tasks is understanding all the options and settings. We picked photos this time to show how you can easily manipulate who can see photos of yourself. Even to the point of excluding or including specific people.
This should be important to parents as they could be their child’s “friend”… »
Facebook privacy (Part 1) – Profile privacy
Attempting to digest Facebook privacy in one setting/posting would be a defeatist move. So we are giving our overview of the settings in the sections as presented by Facebook.
Profile privacy settings
When you first create an account, Facebook takes some privileges with default settings. The number of options for each area is the daunting task that… »
Cloud Computing, Privacy issues and doing something
I was interested that the New York Times picked this up, but not surprised whe the first thing they mentioned was the recent Facebook news. Cloud computing adds a new layer of privacy concerns since your data can and will be stored across multiple providers. Let’s break down a scenario you all will understand and… »
HR looks at your Facebook account and snubs you
Interesting article and survey review from Human Resources Magazine. In it they make the simple statement that I used in the title, 1/3 of HR staff peek at your Facebook/MySpace accounts and then a mere 24% don’t like what they read. We won’t even go into the recruiters yet.
Where does the line get drawn between… »
Hiding your Facebook pics? So you thought
I found this twist to Facebook security settings rather interesting. it all started from a story I read on AllFacebook.com. A quick snippet from their posting:
Earlier this week I noticed that one of my friends had made their Facebook profile photos no longer visible. I wasn’t sure if this was because they had put me… »