Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

You may recall back in mid-summer when Ask.com delivered a message about a new search feature it planned to launch by the end of the year. Well, here we are. December 11th. And Ask has apparently made good on its promise.
The promise was to bring about a search function that enables Ask Search users [...]

Last Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review had featured an article concerning privacy in the modern world - physical, digital, or otherwise. I must say it sparked a few thoughts, particularly ones to do with our Web-based selves. So I thought I’d share with you today a few points of my own [...]

With more and more people getting on the web each and every day, the concern on privacy on the internet is becoming more and more important.
Web 2.0 has turned the tables in allowing anyone to take part in online activities, whether that happens via blogging, keeping up with friends at MySpace, or uploading your [...]

Isn't the idea behind Facebook to make your social life more vibrant and increase your productivity? Apparently, big business begs to differ, as the UK-based Telegraph has reported that “more than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them [...]

Yesterday, MySpace announced that it had “detected and deleted” 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its social networking site. With over 100 million users, the solicitation of minors by adults has become a major problem on Myspace. The social network has been under a lot of pressure to relieve the problem and implement measures that would [...]

Following search engine Ask’s announcement last week of a feature to be introduced later this year that will allow users to maintain a masked existence on the site, bigger wigs in the industry are now paying greater heed to privacy concerns and stepping out with their own plans on how they themselves intend to [...]

If you like to blog, visit your social network, or send personal emails at work, you may want to re-evaluate what you are doing. A new report now claims that almost 19% of companies have disciplined an employee for violating corporate policies that involve blogging and online forums. What's even worse is that 10% of [...]

Wetpaint, the innovative and easy-to-use Wiki service, has today unveiled an exciting new feature for its users, completely free of charge. Starting today, users will have the ability to create free private wiki websites. The new private Wetpaint Wikis are invitation-only online communities viewable and editable only by those people who the creators invite. Once [...]

Over the weekend, a story emerged from the world of Reuters concerning the social site Facebook and the quandary that is privacy in the era of Web 2.0. For the piece, the news organization sat down to talk with Chris Kelly, Facebook’s CPO (Chief Privacy Officer), to discuss what he considers the major element [...]