Category Archives: privacy

A Quick Thought On Online Privacy

May 21, 2008 – 7:31 am

By posting information online, we’re making a choice to make it available to other people. We take that for granted. If someone doesn’t realize they’re making that choice - if they don’t realize that’s what’s happening - is it still right to mine that information in the same way?

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Spokeo - Cool or Creepy?

December 14, 2007 – 11:02 pm

Spokeo (www.spokeo.com) is a very interesting new tool that allows you to track your contacts’ activities over 30-plus different social media sites.The site makes a point of speaking to privacy concerns, but does it go too far? Is this a very cool tool, or is it too close to privacy invasion?
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