Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

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 to [...]

With the explosive growth of user-generated content in Web 2.0, one of the results is that more and more personal information can be found online. As Kathy Sierra and others have discovered, the line between online presence and personal life is getting thinner all the time. MySpace has tried to walk the line between user [...]

If you are anything like me, you are a member of numerous community sites, have more than one blog, and have a folder in your Gmail account assigned to hold all your site registration information. At least once a week, you forget which password and userid goes with which site, and you are forced to click [...]

With the explosion in social networking comes a risk. The more you put out there online about yourself, the more potential there is for risk to your privacy and personal reputation. From blog comments to revenge ratings to angry retaliatory comments, almost anything can end up visible in a Google search. Employers are already using [...]

United State Presidential contender Senator Barack Obama has been at the forefront of taking the 2008 race Web 2.0, encouraging supporters to join his MyBarackObama.com web community, create their own blogs, add him to their MySpace friends list, and generally take advantage of every and any online community aspect to spread the word to take his campaign [...]

With the popularity of Web 2.0 comes an issue with multiple registrations for its adoptees; interactive sites require log-ins, and you'll soon find your list of log-ins requires a better memory than an elephant, as well as feel like you've given your email address to every person in the world. Stepping in to assist is [...]