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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

Ari Herzog

You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data. We’re all using it illegally.

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Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies

Ari Herzog

Sometimes the website has a privacy policy that tells you this, sometimes it doesn’t. It might be something to consider, especially if you are paranoid about too many companies knowing about your browsing habits. -- Thank you for reading Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies at AriWriter.

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How Social Media Should Connect Us

Ari Herzog

While he focused on the interconnectedness of links between blogs, his description goes to the heart of what social media means. I recently started throwing out my social media rules and embracing the ripples that were always there but I chose not to see. Social media is about being social.

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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.

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Follow Me, Friend Me, Do Me Wherever

Ari Herzog

It gradually turned into a place where privacy doesn’t exist and I now share nearly-every post with the world. Social media is diluting. To some, social media replaces blog commenting. I also have a list for family; and another list for people I’m watching for different reasons. You can friend me here.

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Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit

Ari Herzog

The privacy/ “Like&# issues themselves were not huge for me; I’ve always had very public settings on my profile and I’m generally very open on the web. At what point, as an advocate of government-to-citizen social media efforts, do I say, we’re not creating content to sell Facebook ads?

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Fight U.S. Government Internet Censorship

Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog provides social media marketing and editorial services. Related articles you may enjoy: Internet Sales Taxes are Coming… How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics. Government Internet Censorship in your browser. Sign up for his email newsletter and send a tweet.