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I have just read an interesting article on Canada.com about privacy on the internet and whether or not there is even such a thing these days.

With growing developments within the online world, it seems it is getting easier to find out any information you would ever want to know about an individual and people are living their lives completely transparently through the internet without even realising it.

There was a big news story in the UK where the wife of Britain’s Spy Chief was using Facebook and posted photographs of them on holiday and told people where they lived; not only damaging to her husband’s career, but also potentially life-threatening due to the nature of his role.

According to the study, it is not only social networking sites that pose a problem. Alberta Health Services, the first in Canada to use electronic health records, lost 11,000 private records recently thanks to a hacker.

Once again, this reiterates the importance of regularly monitoring your online profile and ensuring that your address, telephone number and even your medical records aren’t being displayed publicly on the internet!

There has been an interesting news story this week about 5 Californians suing Facebook; claiming it violates their rights to privacy.

The 5 people, including 2 children, a photographer and an aspiring actress, claim that Facebook has gathered and shared their personal information with third party groups, as well as taking part in data mining procedures.

A similar case was brought to Facebook earlier in the year, when a young boy created an account without his parent’s permission and later uploaded pictures of him and his young friends in their swim wear.

This is another example of how people need to monitor their own online reputation and, very crucially, this highlights how important it is for parent’s to check their children’s online presence to ensure that the above cases do not happen again.

The following video shows a group of social media addicts that is truly entertaining and there’s a high chance that some Yasni employees can be found in the video as well…

Social Media Addicts Association Meeting via YouTube

We are all excited to have received a great piece of coverage this morning; yasni was awarded a Silver Award by Web User magazine, a huge British Tech magazine! yasni was listed as one of the best ways to find people!!

On top of that, yasni has appeared in Scarlet Magazine, a big UK ladies magazine and was listed as something that is ‘on the up’!

As we all know, we live in a digital age where distance is no longer a barrier and one of the nicest experiences we have at yasni.com is when we see members of our global people search community collaborating together on projects and ideas.

We encourage collaboration, be it for business opportunities, fund raising for charitable causes or just generally helping each other out.

We want to hear about the collaboration projects that our community have been involved with and those which have come direct from your use of yasni.com.

Why do we want to hear about it? Well, not just so we can feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but because we want to offer your stories as an inspiration to other yasni users.

So come on, get collaborating and lets see what we can all achieve together!

About a week ago our ‘Head Yasnian’ Steffen Ruehl was featured in a Q&A on one of the top US business publications, BNET.com.

It was a tough (but fair) interview by Erik Sherman, and I think Steffen did well. If you’re interested in the interview then you can find it here.

Finally, after several months of brainstorming and many sleepless nights we’ve finally come up with the most "creative" name for our new English blog!

Yeah, okay, maybe it isn’t so creative at all and it took us only a few minutes, but at least it breaks everything down to the essence of what you can expect here… simply, all about yasni. Meaning a lot of helpful and entertaining facts about people search, online reputation management, search engines, people and all the other things that enrich the WorldWideWeb.

Of course, we’ll also keep you posted on all activities, happenings and events on… for… with… around… and about yasni. If you have any feedback or suggestions for us, please post them in our feedback section.

Within our press corner you can delve among our latest press releases and all the nice clippings of where yasni has appeared; it’s a pretty long list…

So, welcome to "about yasni" and please feel invited to join and follow us!