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Like the proverbial elephant, the Internet never forgets. That youthful indiscretion or embarrassing party photograph can be around your neck forever. Actually, the issue is not so much that the Internet does not forget, but rather that it provides tools that allow virtually anything about you to be found. Blame Google, of course, but the various personal information services are quite a bit more insidious. Click the headline above to read more about the “right to be forgotten” online. Read More
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emailPrivacy Myth or Privacy Truth? Librarians Promote ‘Privacy Week’ Events to Discuss Online Freedoms
Posted on Thursday, April 28th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Check out several myths about online privacy in a digital era courtesy of the American Library Association, an organization that hopes to get people up to speed on their rights in our Information Age. The ALA says our search behaviors can leave an identifying trail, so learn how you can get involved in the privacy conversation today. Read More
Does Geotagging ‘Creepy’ App Signal End to Photo-Sharing Privacy?
Posted on Thursday, April 14th, 2011
An article on a site called Thinq says a new geolocation information aggregator “aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It’s remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.” The article points out that although Twitter’s geolocation setting is optional, images shared via a smartphone records the location information anyway and “Creepy finds these photos, downloads them, and extracts the location data.”
Data Privacy Day 2011: A Focus on Online Privacy and Security
Posted on Thursday, January 27th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Friday, January 28 is the fourth-annual World Data Privacy Day — a day dedicated to fostering discussion about privacy protection in our digital age. After all, as the organizers will point out, privacy and security have become a central part of our new digital reality. In just the past month, the newly crowned Miss America answered a question about national security and WikiLeaks, the Golden Globe for Best Picture went to The Social Network, and Mark Zuckerberg and Julian Assange became Time’s Person of the Year and runner-up, respectively. Read More
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‘Digital Fingerprints’ Tell Your Story to Online Advertisers
Posted on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that “device fingerprinting” is a powerful emerging tool in online advertising. The article says it’s a method that is tougher to block than other common tools such as cookies, which can be deleted to protect your online privacy.