“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin, statesman Facebook gives users the illusion of privacy. You get to choose your friends and have the ability to regulate your content. Some people can see this. Others can see that. But regardless of how you direct traffic on Facebook remember [...]
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Tag Archives: Privacy
Google Decides to Kill Privacy
January 26, 2012
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Remember when Google adopted “Don’t Be Evil” as its unofficial motto? You’ll find that little ditty at a yard sale next to a Bay City Rollers album and a skinny leather tie decorated like a piano. Because this week Google announced it was drastically changing its privacy policy and the side of sharing – and [...]
Read moreInvasion of the Privacy Snatchers
October 25, 2011
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There is a new technology TV commercial airing that unfolds this way: A family is gathered together for a holiday The “uncle” is playing a music-themed video game that requires him to dance in a funny way The niece and nephew secretly film him with a mobile phone and quickly loaded the video onto [...]
Read moreThe Big Question is Now: How Much to Share
September 26, 2011
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Think of Charles Dickens and his seminal novel “David Copperfield.” This is what Facebook is striving to become for all of us. Dickens’ novel follows David Copperfield from birth to adulthood and chronicles the trials and tribulations of a young gentleman in early Victorian England. His works, his love, his marriage – his life. [...]
Read moreThe Reality of Online Privacy: You Have None
May 11, 2011
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The Congressional hearings this week on mobile privacy have the issue of online privacy buzzing again. But it probably won’t last long. Convenience has trumped privacy so far in the 21st century. We live in times were Big Brother isn’t the government, but marketing and advertising – and most of us have opted in. But [...]
Read more Can Companies Restrict Employees Use of Social Media?
February 9, 2011
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Maybe not. There is probably a case to be made for restricting usage of social networks by employees while they are at work. But all bets are off when an employee goes home. In fact, it is likely that U.S. companies cannot restrict employees from discussing their jobs, their bosses or even their working conditions [...]
Read moreIs Privacy Over?
December 16, 2010
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No, of course not. But there will be less of it and you’ll need to be even more diligent to protect it. The enormous advantages of working and playing online – the convenience of shopping at home or watching a movie when you want to or instantly downloading a song you like – [...]
Read more Think of the Send Button as a Privacy Vaporizer
November 17, 2010
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Kind of like a ray gun. Because when you press send your privacy is gone. You have officially gone public. This includes the send button for email, instant messaging, text messaging, Twitter DMs, Facebook messages, voicemail and anything posted to a social network or an online forum. This week I was interviewed for a Boston [...]
Read moreYou Can’t Reclaim Privacy
May 18, 2010
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“Privacy is the right to be alone–the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis Brandeis, who died in 1941, would likely be aghast at the concept of Facebook. The idea that people would willingly share so much of their private lives with [...]
Read moreThe Up & Down Sides of “Liking” on Facebook
May 11, 2010
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First the down: When you “Like” something on Facebook – it is public. Completely, utterly public. As in everyone – including search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo – gets to see it. Once upon a time, if you liked a comment or a link or a photograph, that information was displayed only to the [...]
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