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This “PII Chart” graph from the team at Identity Theft 911 is an imaginative look at how to guard your identity as though it were a treasured family heirloom recipe.
PII — the standard acronym for what security experts and online advertising companies call “personally identifiable information” — could lead to identity theft, fraud, and related scams if the details fell into the wrong hands. Read More
Imagine living in a world where you could instantly find out the average age of people at a bar, or view an ad specifically tailored for you when you walk by a billboard, or use a website that knows the name of every person in your uploaded pictures.
This may sound like science fiction, but these things actually exist right now. This is the brave, new world of facial recognition software, and it is evolving at an ominously fast rate.
While this technology has many benefits and some mind boggling applications, questions about security and privacy have not yet been adequately addressed. We may be entering an era when even your face is a privacy risk. Read More
The photo sharing social network, Flickr, is taking steps to ensure its users’ privacy. Last week the website introduced Geofences, which help mask the location of a photo and thus protect online security and privacy. Read More
So you take pictures with your smartphone and post them online. What’s the worst thing that could happen? What personal information could possibly be exposed? Where’s the threat? Unfortunately, even as careful as some people may be about sharing personal information online, they may be unwittingly exposing information through a process called “geotagging.” Geotagging is the embedding of geospatial information into media files. Read More
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