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Author: IdoNotes

ReputationDefender – a scam in my eyes

Dec 10, 2008IdoNotes1 Commentprivacyaggregator, privacy, social_profiles

I ran across a site under the url MyReputation.com that offered a bunch of monitoring services to watch your name, kid’s names or company brand.  I was suddenly disheartened to see the costs associated with the “service” you can do for free.  Let’s focus on ReputationDefender for MyChild since this blog covers a lot on…

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Is it too easy to find kids personal information on Facebook?

Nov 20, 2008IdoNotesFacebook, privacyFacebook, privacy

The first thing we should mention is that Facebook does have a stated policy that children under 13 should not use Facebook and those children ages 13-18 should seek parental permission.  More on that policy may be found here.  A brief subset of the policy states: Facebook does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information…

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Can kids recognize Social Stalking?

Nov 5, 2008IdoNotes1 CommentStalkingSocial Stalking

I ran across and interesting, but short, posting recently on “Recognize and Report Cyberspace Stalking” at the following page.  While the article brought up a decent point, such as saving all communications from the stalker, there was much left out. In general, kids and even adults new to social networking, walk into these networks without…

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Reverse location broadcasting

Oct 27, 2008IdoNotesprivacy, StalkingGawker privacy

Are stars humans?  Do they have private lives?  Imagine if everytime you attempted to go to the store, buy a coffeee or eat with friends and family they took pictures and asked for autographs?  Sounds tough.  But now let’s take it to the next step.  Imagine if someone was broadcasting, not just to their friend…

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How a Facebook status invoked violence

Oct 24, 2008IdoNotesFacebookFacebook, status

In a BBC News article from October 17th I found the following… then the commentary A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. We first send thoughts to the family affected by this.  Physical voilence stemming from comments, postings…

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