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Ask the Expert: What You Should Know About Google’s New Privacy Policies

Posted on Monday, March 5th, 2012 by

Google’s new privacy policy changes have many privacy advocates up in arms. It begs the question: does our personal information belong to us or the corporations that collect it? Instead of being forced to adhere to these data collection rules in order to use a popular product, shouldn’t we insist that companies give us the option to allow or deny them permission to track and store our personal information? What happens if hackers get ahold of this information?

Read on for more information about Google’s new privacy policies. Read More

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Last Chance to Erase Your Google Search Results For Good

Posted on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Attention, privacy seekers!

IT World says this is your last chance to tell Google to forget about you.

Until March 1, when the search giant’s new single privacy policy goes into effect, there are some simple steps to take to erase your past history. Read More

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Google’s ‘Good to Know’ Campaign Touts Online Privacy

Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Google has launched its “Good to Know” advertising campaign to help educate consumers about how to protect themselves online. Read More

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SOPA, PIPA, and Why We All Must Care About Our Free Internet Rights

Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by

A few weeks ago I wrote the U.S. Congress a letter voicing my objection to the proposed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation and have since determined that similar bill PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) is an equally bad idea. If passed, SOPA will work in conjunction with PIPA.

Both SOPA and PIPA represent a step toward an Internet where the U.S. government and giant corporations have the power to determine what you see when you Google something or type in the URL of a website they don’t like.

Do these bills sound ominous? They are.

PRIVATE WiFi urges everyone who values openness on the Internet and opposes censorship to let your congressperson know that you are against both SOPA and PIPA. Read More

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Do We Need a ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ On the Internet?

Posted on Monday, September 19th, 2011 by

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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Google Confirms It Aims to Own Your Online ID

Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2011 by

According to this Bloomberg Businessweek article, Google’s chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt called Google an “identity service” or platform on which it can build other products. In other words, real names are more valuable to advertisers. Read More

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Online Reputation: What the Search Giants Know About You, Part 2

Posted on Monday, June 27th, 2011 by

In the second part of his article, CEO Kent Lawson concludes his look into managing online reputations and what you can do if some of the information you read about yourself is false or defamatory. Read More

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Online Reputation: What the Search Giants Know About You, Part 1

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011 by

CEO Kent Lawson does a little digging online to determine how much of his past information is available for public consumption. As he says, he was “quite surprised by how much information they were able to pull together. The tentacles of data matching against public databases do create a remarkably thorough dossier.” Check out Part 2 next Monday, June 27, when he explains what you can do if some of the information you read about yourself is wrong, personally intrusive, or seriously damaging to your reputation. Read More

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Questioning the New Gatekeepers: Why Personalized, Filtered Online News Is Worrisome

Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2011 by

CEO Kent Lawson explores the issues around “online personalization” and what it means when we are searching for information, not just shopping for a product. Do we really want our news and information filtered and ordered for us by some search engine algorithm? Read More

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