Equifax and your employer have teamed up to make money off of your work history. Over 50,000 organizations have provided over 192 million employment records to this massive database. Many state and local governments, colleges,…
Monthly Archives For January 2013
Data Privacy Day – January 28th
We are a Data Privacy Day (DPD) Champion and we want to help promote messages about the importance of data protection and controlling ones digital footprint. Coordinated and led by the National Cyber Security Alliance…
Google, Facebook Continue To Flood Washington With Cash For Lobbying Efforts
Consumer Watchdog Calls Record Spending Cynical Bid To Buy Influence WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Google and Facebook continued to pump record amounts of money into their lobbying efforts during 2012 with Facebook’s spending soaring…
If you shop til you drop, will they track when you come back?
In “If you shop til you drop, will they track when you come back?“, Dan Tynan follows up his initial look at retail locations and their ability to track you through their store via your…
Terms and Conditions May Apply ~ The Movie
“Terms and Conditions May Apply,” makes its debut at Slamdance 2013 today (January 23rd). Director Cullen Hoback takes a hard look at how website terms and conditions have changed over the years. I remember one…
Legislating Goes Social: Bills Would Address Web Posts
by Cody Permenter, The Texas Tribune When Democratic state Rep. Helen Giddings entered the Texas Legislature in 1992, no one had heard of social media. In fact, few people owned personal computers, and cell phones…
Prying is the new pampering
NBCNews.com take a look at how one industry uses your social media content. Whether its creative or creepy is up to you to decide. From “What your hotel knows about you” : “A guest’s Twitter…
Protecting your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search
The reaction has been swift . . . The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted quick reference for checking and changing your Facebook privacy settings to protect yours information from Facebook’s new Graph Search. The folks…
Facebook Tweaks Privacy Policy, No Search Opt-Out
Zachary M. Seward notes over in Quartz that Facebook tweaked its privacy policy ahead of its big Graph Search launch(italics mine): When you hide things on your timeline, like posts or connections, it means those…
New FTC Rules on Children’s Online Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced the first major update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) in 13 years. These rules go into effect July 1, 2013, but companies and organizations that provide web…
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