Think of Yelp in a ski mask meeting LinkedIn in a dark alley. The result of this violent encounter is now a social network called Unvarnished. Libel.com must have been taken. Unvarnished will soon be causing lots of problems for everyone. And I mean everyone. Right now it is in beta and invite only, but [...]
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Tag Archives: Privacy
Policing Social Media – A Showdown is Looming
February 25, 2010
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It’s easy to criticize the Italian government for convicting three Google executives for a video uploaded to YouTube, but the situation is more complex than it appears. The video in question showed a group of students bullying an autistic child and an Italian court in Milan ruled that the video violated the privacy rights of [...]
Read moreWhy I Don’t Use Foursquare
February 24, 2010
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Because I watched Will Smith’s “Enemy of the State” back in 1998. In the film, Smith plays a lawyer who accidentally becomes the target of a corrupt politician who runs a secret NSA operation. Smith tries to escape, but the NSA agents track him down using the latest in surveillance technology – from bugs in [...]
Read moreEmployers Are Checking Your Social Media Profile – Right Now
February 18, 2010
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I have a colleague who is a conservative living in primarily liberal Massachusetts (yes, Scott Brown’s election didn’t change that fact). Like many professionals in this grueling economy, he’s currently between jobs. He’s networking, polishing his resume, and interviewing for what’s next for him. Recently, however, curious about his online profile, he “Googled” himself. A [...]
Read moreGoogle CEO Thinks Privacy is Evil
December 14, 2009
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Do you know what is creepier than having a stranger living in the crawl space in your apartment? This quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt on CNBC last week: “I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But [...]
Read moreGoogle Dashboard – Inside Your Mind
November 13, 2009
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Google already knows I’m going to write this post. After all, they know everything else about me. And you. This week Google rolled out Dashboard – a feature that allows Google users to review all of their web, image, video, and news searches, all of the email they sent (if they use Gmail), all of [...]
Read moreThe Web’s Biggest Victim: Privacy
April 29, 2009
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Privacy, like its close cousin modesty, is difficult to recover once lost. That’s the thought I had after reading a recent post by Todd Defren at his terrific PR blog PRSquared. Todd was discussing the Domino’s Pizza social media gaffe and, almost as an after thought, wrote: “I like Shel Holtz’s idea: “wouldn’t it be [...]
Read moreWhy Google is the Most Dangerous Company on Earth
April 23, 2009
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It knows everything about you. Not even the U.S. government has compiled as much information about you as Google. Google knows this, of course, which is one reason why it has made the phrase “Don’t be Evil” its motto. It understands the awesome power it holds and how that data could be used for odious [...]
Read more5 Guidelines for Public vs. Private in Social Media
March 23, 2009
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Lisa Hickey has an excellent post at her blog, The Hurricane Inside My Brain, about private conversations in the world of social media. It is a reminder that the line between public and private has never been thinner – and less defined. This is an especially important lesson for businesses who are jumping into social [...]
Read moreWhy Facebook is so Scary
February 17, 2009
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The New York Times is now reporting that Facebook has 175 million users. If it were a country, Facebook would be the 6th largest in the world. Currently, its half the size of the United States. With a reach like that and its amazing News Feed and Mini Feed applications that push content and interactions [...]
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