A UK charity recently did a survey to look at how people deal with idea of death and digital music, photography and online bank accounts. Their research found that although 80% of those surveyed have such things, fewer than 10% have given any thought about what should happen to those…
There are a number of people out there who are warning us that there needs to be more awareness of how much information we’re disclosing via social networks. Some of them, like the now-shuttered PleaseRobMe.com, were doing it intentionally. Others, like Facebook Breakup Notifier (FBN), do it by implication. FBN…
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that a company’s alleged use of an employee’s Facebook and Twitter pages without her permission to post marketing messages that looked like they were written by the employee may be liable under the Illinois Right to Publicity Act…
According to a recent study by OpenDNS, Facebook is both the most widely blocked site in enterprises today and the second most widely allowed site in enterprises today. The study goes on to report that more than 14 percent of all enterprises that block websites on their networks choose to…
In the real world (at least in the US), the 5th Amendment to the Constitution states, “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” A host of jurisprudence has determined…
A German data protection official has initiated action against Facebook for its use and storage of information about people who are not members. The actions result in part from the ability for registered users to use a tool provided by Facebook that scans a user’s existing email contacts and retrieves…
The Federal Trade Commission has extended until July 12, 2010, the deadline for public comments on its review of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. The request for comments was originally published in the Federal Register on April 5, 2010. As stated on the FTC website: The primary…
The FTC recently posted a press release (FTC Press Release) on their settlement with Twitter, Inc. over charges that the company failed to protect users’ private information. The charges against Twitter stem from several high-profile incidences where hackers were able to gain administrative control of Twitter to: view nonpublic user…