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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

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People join private Facebook Groups or forums to meet and talk with other like-minded people. In an era when you can watch 700 review videos for a product on YouTube, we still turn to people we consider experts — friends, family, or niche communities — for purchasing advice. A lot of that talk centers around advice.

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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

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Leading tech companies, government entities like the United Nations and research and data science communities have worked to shape and publish guidelines to address ethical issues. Our community discussed several risks including privacy infringement, manipulation of public opinion and autonomous weapons.

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A healthcare team’s guide to HIPAA compliance on social media

Sprout Social

As Florence explains, “Social is a non-negotiable part of driving brand awareness and building connections with patients, physicians and community members. HIPAA’s impact on your social media content HIPAA privacy laws protect sensitive patient information from being disclosed publicly, including on social media.

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The pros and cons of social media

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Booktok , for example, has become a flourishing online community. And connecting with your audience goes further than making sales—it builds community, which can save you advertising bucks in the future. It’s created an “always-open forum” for constituents’ to voice their questions and concerns. Lack of privacy.

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Facebook Subscriptions 2018 – Stop the Whining

Laurel Papworth

In most communities (bulletin boards, forums etc) ad free is an addon to the main upgrade (extra features) not the killer sales point of freemium to premium. “If you don’t like tracking ads, pay a few bucks a week/month and it all stops” I wonder what price point is privacy? . What say you? But so few do it.

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Social Data Analysis: The Pros and Cons of Social Data

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Social Data Analysis Cons Data privacy Data security can be a challenge when collecting and analyzing social data. Therefore, recognizing the significance of individual privacy rights and the responsible processing of personal data is crucial.

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Sony online communities hacked

Laurel Papworth

Playstation and other online communities have been hacked. In doing so you have violated the privacy of thousands of innocent people who only sought the free distribution of information. Odd that Sony didnt remove it from the Playstation forum – transcribed from hacker webpage. Probably millions of credit cards stolen.