Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

Not everyone who has browsed a job board is actually unemployed. In fact, some people who peruse listings of available jobs online are quite intent with their current positions, but would just like to see what's available. That is the theory behind itzbig's new job search tool, which allows working technology professionals to privately explore the [...]

Slashdot featured a little story over the Christmas holiday about my favorite on-again, off-again love affairs: Google. I was going to comment on it yesterday but thought maybe the stress of the holiday season might be getting to me, and since I'd just raked Wikimedia over the coals, I thought I'd bask in my Christmas [...]

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 about the [...]

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 keep [...]

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 [...]