Janet Fouts

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

I’m a bit more pragmatic than some of my co-panelists on what privacy we can actually have in this day and age. I’m trying to keep my focus in this case on activists and their issues with privacy online. This is one example of social media being used to secure the privacy of an individual.

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Google Plus and personal privacy

Janet Fouts

Regarding countries like Iran and Syria, people there have no expectation of privacy anyway due to their government’s own policies, which implies (to me, at least) that Schmidt thinks there’s no point of even trying to have a service that allows pseudonyms.

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IS Your Website GDPR Compliant?

Janet Fouts

Of course, we are all aware of the privacy issues now in the news about Facebook and other major networking sites. Update your terms of use and privacy policies to be in compliance. The European Union has been thinking about this much longer, and a new regulation goes into effect soon that will impact how we all do business online.

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Custom Short URLs for Google+ At Last!

Janet Fouts

Please note, in the Privacy and Policy doc Google reserves the right to remove the URL at any time and may at some point charge for this service. In the meantime you could use the Google URL shortener GPlus.to to create a shortcut like this. Still I’m thrilled to see this change! Googleplus Google Plus Google plus business pages'

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Museum of Me? Really?

Janet Fouts

Well maybe, but from some of the posts I’ve seen recently there’s a lot of people out there who are upset about what they see as an invasion of privacy since you can’t even log in to see it unless you give up access to the application, which then harvests your information to create the display. So, what do you think?

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Would you give up your passwords for a job?

Janet Fouts

Privacy online is a myth. Sears for example “allows” job applicants to log into their jobs page with Facebook, Myspace or Linkedin, just to make it convenient for you. Isn’t that nice? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want something to be private, don’t put it online in the first place.

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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Janet Fouts

I’m for finding ways to control mis-use and prevent abuse of our privacy but I think this bill needs to be updated to the way we really use the internet now, not from back in the ’80s. Don’t get me wrong. Let’s intelligently reform this bill instead of responding fearfully.

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