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Facebook's Privacy Seems To Be Traveling Away

Forbes Social Media

The traveling friends feature in Facebook has not been heavily publicized and it is allowing user's travel patterns and schedules be passed to their friends list. This could create less than ideal situations and potentially endanger the user.

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How WhatsApp Merger With Facebook Messenger Puts Your Privacy At Risk

Forbes Social Media

Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are to be integrated under the hood so that messages will travel across a unified communications platform. So, what are the implications on privacy for users of these services?

Privacy 111
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Digital is facing a Trust Crisis

Dave Fleet

The privacy issues related to social are myriad and layered (see: The Social Dilemma ), but Iā€™d argue that events surrounding the 2016 US election ā€“ where privacy abuse in the Cambridge Analytica scandal played a significant role ā€“ proved a tipping point in trust and public awareness from which social networks have never truly recovered.

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Internet Undercover: What is VPN Really About?

BeingOptimist

Hardware VPN Used in a corporate environment a hardware VPN provides secure network connections to the users by creating an encrypted tunnel for data to travel securely over the internet. Online Privacy VPN masks your IP address making sure that your online actions are virtually untraceable. You get to be anonymous while browsing.

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Big Change to Meta Ads Location Targeting

Jon Loomer

But you could select from four total options: People living in or recently in this location People living in this location People recently in this location People traveling in this location How Things Are Now This is one of those things that a lot of advertisers don’t touch, so it would be easy to miss. Privacy concerns.

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Social Spotlight: Hiltonā€™s pandemic strategy proves the business value of social

Sprout Social

Their Five Feet to Fitnessā„¢ offering includes 11 different fitness equipment and accessory options so guests can work out in the privacy of their room. While the effects of the pandemic have been devastating across the board, one of the hardest hit industries was Travel and Hospitality. During a pandemic, travelersā€™ priorities change.

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The War on Privacy Through Tech Devices

Forbes Social Media

How has new technology put travelers and victims of rape in peril of being coerced into handing over their tech devices and why should this matter to you?

Privacy 52