Posts Tagged "privacy"

The disinformation agents, propaganda creators, and PR spinners are out. Are you sharing what they created? Here’s one I saw on LinkedIn. This infographic came from an article where journalist Tom Gara dug into everything Google knew about him. Disclaimer: I didn’t read the article. I’m reacting to seeing this isolated infographic going around LinkedIn. […]

One thing I always advise clients on is separating personal and business on Social Media. Most sites are personal. I wouldn’t invite clients to my personal Facebook account but they are welcome to follow our Facebook Business Page, Twitter, LinkedIn Company Page, etc… I also don’t add friends or personal contacts to LinkedIn (unless there’s […]

There has been a lot of confusion lately over the Facebook Messenger app and what it wants to do once it’s on your phone. There are blog posts and reports saying the sky is falling, the permissions are insane, and everybody should uninstall it or never install it. There are blog posts and reports saying […]

Maybe I’m just a power user on the end of a bell curve, but I think Facebook privacy has a long way to go. Here are some of my suggestions for Facebook. Block Anybody and Block By Email Address Right now, if Person X blocked you on Facebook, you can’t see them to block them. […]

There’s a lot of buzz about Disney’s new MagicBands at Disney World in Florida. In the old days, when you stayed and played, you got a card with a swipe strip. This was your hotel room key, room charge card, park tickets, and how you got your FastPasses (that let you dodge long line rides […]

I recently moved in with my boyfriend. So excited. 🙂 Went to post to Facebook using their “post a life event” flow. I followed that to home-related events, and chose New Housemate. Why not. I filled it out with the date we moved in, and wrote my comments. I hit SAVE, and got an error […]

It’s like I’m psychic! I was JUST posting about how the biggest problem with Facebook privacy isn’t their terms (yet). It’s your own friends. I wrote a blog post about it. Around Xmas, people thought that Mark Zuckerberg’s sister must not have understood Facebook’s privacy and UI because a family picture she posted ended up […]

Oh, that meme is going around again. The one where people think that if they post to their Facebook wall that everything is theirs and they own the copyright and let’s name a few laws that that OVERRIDES Facebook’s terms and conditions. It doesn’t. Just like standing up and yelling that your high speed internet […]

eBay tracks you. Wildly and well. They know who’s logging in from where into which accounts. They know when you log out of one account and into another. They know how many accounts you have. And because they know you’re doing this, eBay has an interesting rule. If you get suspended on eBay (for any […]

My friend, Joe, recently wrote this blog post about privacy. I think I might be the tech savvy friend who couldn’t believe he was Foursquaring his home address. 🙂 And his post made me think. What IS private? Is there anything you can’t Google about someone? Does shredding everything matter? When it comes to the […]