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Is Privacy a Thing of The Past?

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!

Facebook Privacy – Are You Fully Aware of Your Online Reputation?

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.

I.T. Professionals Admit to Using Their Skills to Spy on Staff

I have just stumbled across a really interesting article from a company called Cyber-Ark. They recently surveyed more than 400 senior Information Technology professionals and found that more than 1 in 3 abuse administrative passwords to access private and confidential data, such as salary, details of pay increases, discussions held at board meetings and private email accounts.

These results are staggering, not to mention a complete breach of their rights. It’s really shocking, that such a high proportion of skilled I.T. professionals take advantage of their position!

I just thought I would share this with you all.