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Category: privacy

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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Hiding Yourself from Stalking with Private Numbers

Oct 21, 2008IdoNotes1 CommentprivacyPrivate Numbers

One of the ways, we as humans, like to communicate is still the telephone.  In the world of social networking, who knows the reality of who the other person is on the other side of your conversations is.  That is until you have met them in real life.  So how do we get to that…

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Where Is Your Username Registered – reversed into a stalking tool

Oct 16, 2008IdoNotesprivacysocial_profiles

While we were recording Episode 9 of TheSocialGeeks podcast, one of the sites mentioned was UserNameCheck.com , a cool utility.  It basically runs through almost 70 social sites (last time I counted) and verifies if your desired username is available.  From there you could pick a new name that was open everywhere or go add…

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Stalking via SMS – you are unprotected

Oct 10, 2008IdoNotes1 Commentprivacy, SMSprivacy, SMS

Interestingly enough, Oprah had a show on that brought up an issue of their child receiving unwanted text messages on the child’s phone.  While we make look at a simple text as harmless, the social pressure and stalking issue raises a thought.  How do kids handle and protect themselves from stalking via SMS messages.  it…

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