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Category: privacy

Cloud Computing, Privacy issues and doing something

Feb 25, 2009IdoNotesprivacycloud computing, privacy

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…

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HR looks at your Facebook account and snubs you

Feb 12, 2009IdoNotesprivacyFacebook, Human Resources, MySpace

Interesting article and survey review from Human Resources Magazine.  In it they make the simple statement that I used in the title, 1/3 of HR staff peek at your Facebook/MySpace accounts and then a mere 24% don’t like what they read.  We won’t even go into the recruiters yet. Where does the line get drawn…

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Hiding your Facebook pics? So you thought

Jan 28, 2009IdoNotes4 CommentsFacebook, privacyFacebook, picture, privacy

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…

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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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