Social Times - Latest Comments in Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

Re: Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

Freeview HD Recorder — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:09:52 -0000

Superb post that covers the topic in the right amount of detail.

Re: Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

Data Recovery — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:28:41 -0000

After it now there would be some changes we can see in privacy acts.

Re: Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

personal injury austin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:11:09 -0000

Online Privacy Bill of Rights can help in protecting our identities from frauds and phishers, I am one supporter of this law firm.

Re: Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

Georgina — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:01:57 -0000

glad to know you're keeping an eye on this space. having worked in socmedia for a few years at various companies, dealing with family privacy, COPPA, and all aspects of public domain information, I do now believe that government should interject. Really it's the context in which public domain data gets compiled and shared that I believe is where we may run into trouble. Fragments of PII are not necessarily the problem, it's the bundling of this footprint, that I truly believe needs some consumer education and advocacy.

Re: Digital Privacy is On the Hotseat

Tony Mty — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:19 -0000

I think is very important to address this issue. Some big corps think they own your digital life in some way. A former employer of mine (I will reserve the name) used to eavesdrop my google account. I realized of this because it was not allowed to access google mail from the office and noticed in the log that someone had just accessed it during office hours. I am counting on google to have these records because it had the ip address where it accessed from.

In fact, is very easy for a corporation to gain access to any personal data you consult during office hours. Since all the information travels through the company router it can be intercepted anytime.

Ever since I realized they were illegally accessing my private information, I changed all my passwords and refrained to consult *anything* personal from corporate offices.

Of course, this is an unethical practice, but I think enforcing a online privacy law in the workplace will deter some irresponsible corporations to gain access to your private data without a warrant or without your expressed consent.