SocialNetworker
- I know who won #SxSW – because they forced it on me March 15, 2010
- Over 300k checkins for Foursquare, now how do I find you? March 12, 2010
- All We Had Was a Stick and a Button – now too much complication March 9, 2010
- Twitter opts your privacy in automatically March 1, 2010
- Visualize.us – social bookmarking for your favorite images February 25, 2010
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School provided laptops, should you expect privacy?
Recent news in Pennsylvania, from Lower Marion School District, has the school and officials under fire from parents and students claiming their expected privacy was compromised. We have an opinion right in the middle of this controversy.
The school provided the students these laptops with the understanding they
were to be used for school activity. Whether or… »
Photograph technology and privacy
I ran across an amazing site that allows photographers to take 360 degree panoramic pictures. Amazing quality, production and time invested from every one of them. Some of the results are outstanding and give you a true sense of what an area, city or natural wonder would be like if you were standing there. However,… »
Facebook changed their security policy – what are your new settings?
The first question to ask yourself is if you have gone into Facebook and verified the security settings on your account. On my other blog, TheSocialNetworker, I did a quick 2 minute video showing you the changes Facebook has implemented to the default settings on privacy settings.
You should be aware that their attempt is to… »
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 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… »
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… »