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Privacy Is About Control, Not Anonymity

Dave Fleet

Tweet Seth Godin says you don’t really care about privacy : “If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. I don’t care if my credit card company, Amazon, Google or Facebook have my information. Tags: privacy. How about you?

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Growing Privacy Concerns Put Social Networks’ Targeting at Risk

Ignite Social Media

With the release of the Apple intelligent tracking prevention (ITP) settings in 2017, Mozilla and Apple blocking cookies in 2019 and 2020, and Google planning to phase out third-party cookies, this tracking method is gradually being stripped away. Facebook’s Solution: The Conversions API. Subscribe to Social You Should Know.

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Could the Survival of Facebook Depend on Its Privacy?

Waxing UnLyrical

Lots of reasons for that, put forward by people much smarterthan I, which you can easily read about via a Google search. In the past, I’ve made the argument that your privacy is not Facebook’s responsibility, and I still believe that. Google is much more like Apple, Facebook is more like Yahoo!). He also blogs.

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Seven Ways to Increase Your Brand Influence

Webbiquity SMM

Use their work desktop PC to search for more information about a product on Google. Use their smartwatch to make a payment via Google Pay. One factor to remember is that if you are using cookies to collect user data, you should clearly reveal this to your users in a privacy policy on your website. Image credit: HubSpot.

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Social Media News Ticker: New Gmail-Google+ Link, Sponsored Stories Shutting Down

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest: Facebook. Social Media News Ticker Facebook Google Pinterest Sponsored Stories Twitter' Let us know in the comments below.

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The Other Side Of Privacy

Twist Image

You can't throw a rock and not hit a concern about privacy and the use of our data online. From newer media initiatives (think Facebook Beacon ) to cyber-attacks (see what Sony has been dealing with ), not a week goes by that some sort of privacy breach or plans for a corporation to do something funky with consumer's data isn't in the news.

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Just sent her to the shop to buy me orange juice and a bag of ice.” When you consider that social networks started gaining popularity more than five years ago, it’s surprising that so many people still don’t understand how to or fail to use the privacy settings. Google’s new privacy policy.