USA Today has published a lengthy and informative article on the tactics and personal privacy problems associated with “data mining” – the growing practice used by both government and business of using modern technology and software to create detailed personal profiles of citizens and consumers by recording their behavior and saving it for analysis in […]
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Users of MySpace, FaceBook and other social networking sites should think about the content and pictures they are posting online. You are literally creating an online public record of yourself and your actions that more and more employers and education institutions are using to do background research on you. A recent article by Matt Annerino […]
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A recent Reuters article discusses the phenomenal growth of the MySpace social networking web site, which is now ranked in the No. 1 spot among all U.S. web sites, topping even Yahoo! and Google. From the article — Online teen hangout MySpace.com ranked as the No. 1 U.S. Web site last week, displacing Yahoo Inc.’s […]
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Due to better technology and cheaper digital storeage space, genealogy search sites are putting more public records online than ever before. From a recent article published on Naples News dot com — Old family history records, from census information to draft cards, are now flooding the Internet thanks to new technology that makes it easier […]
USA Today has published an interesting article on the reality of pervasive digital cameras in our modern lives, including the privacy problems they are creating. From the article — Traffic cameras zoom in enough to capture your dangling cigarette. Crime cameras “see” in the dark. Satellite images show whether your car is in the driveway. […]