Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. Facebook responded by apologizing and giving its users more privacy controls to manage the concerns of students who thought this approach was too invasive. More than 2,300 people a reported missing each day.

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Attack of the Consumer! The Many Ways Consumers Can Put You Out of Business Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If consumers complain about your business, your money won’t be green enough to buy advertising online. As seen in the screenshot below, the store is called out as a “Smart Buy!” This is broadly defined to include anything from unclear landing pages, a lack of a privacy policy, misleading ads, or unclear billing practices.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This area should link to subcategory, terms of use, social media, privacy statement, sitemap, and contact pages. Any irrelevant pages like terms of use, PDF files, privacy policy, and sitemaps should be nofollowed. All category and main pages should be linked throughout the global navigation. Like this post?

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There was a lot more uproar over the news feed from more users than there was with Beacon and it was primarily a concern about privacy. Is there something about a bigger vision of where things are going that addresses this concern of privacy? There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

No need to buy John Reeses’ new product that will set you back $2k. Follow with Aaron Wall in how to avoid Google or they will pentrate your right to privacy. You don’t need to follow along with the “top bloggers&# to make a decent living from this internet stuff. They did it their way, and each to our own.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Buy something, get something. it has a bit to do with privacy concerns in my opinion. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Of course, you can also just use a Facebook application for that.

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Across the USA by Train… With Kids and For $0

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This was very important for our privacy and also ensured that the kids actually didn’t bother the people around them. Instead, we traveled in sleeping cars in roomettes (two for the four of us), which are “first class” cars with private bathrooms (where applicable), beds, and doors.

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