When do you draw the blue line?
We each have personal limits when sharing information online. Sometimes these limits can seem arbitrary or illogical, and sometimes they’re just funny.
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Do your young people “think before they upload”?
Did you know it’s Privacy Awareness Week in the Asia Pacific Region? If you’ve got young people in your life, who you’re trying to impart the privacy-awareness message to, have them check out the three-minute video, featured on our YouTube channel, that the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) launched to mark the week.
Read moreFurther evidence on how the online and the private truly MESH
Once again, folks from the Office attended “Canada’s web conference”, MESH 2009, in Toronto – a place where flacks, marketers, hackers, people with money to spend, people looking for money, and activists gather and talk about how the web is “affecting media, marketing, business and society as a whole”.
Read moreSecond Life: Privacy in Virtual Worlds
A year ago, we asked a law student at the University of Ottawa to examine the virtual world Second Life, and report on what implications this type of environment may have for personal privacy and the protection of personal information.
Read moreThink you’re too smart to fall for a Ponzi scheme? Better check your Twitter account first.
If you need a refresher, a Ponzi scheme, according to Wikipedia, is “a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent investors rather that from profit. It “usually offers abnormally high short-term returns in order to entice new investors”.
Read moreOne Man’s Experiment With a Location-Aware Lifestyle
Recently, a journalist for Wired magazine attempted to live a location-aware lifestyle. That means he tried to take advantage of the GPS capabilities of every electronic tool he could get his hands on, linking all his activities to his location and then transmitting that data to his network.
Read moreOnline social networking at work
Increasingly, employers are looking at how to tackle the thorny issue of employees’ use of social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn.
Read moreA note on how NOT to educate your kids about the dangers of social networking sites
Protecting your kids from online predators in social networking environments is a hot topic nowadays – especially with the findings of a recent study by Ryerson University that found that “nine out of ten young Canadians socialize online regularly and frequently”.
Read moreDo you enjoy being watched?
The author of a new article on surveillance in The Walrus thinks you do. Hal Niedzviecki says that while the thought of being monitored used to disturb us (think George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four), cameras and other surveillance techniques are so prevalent today that we’ve stopped noticing them. And, he says, when we do notice we don’t really care (case in point: when it was announced that 10,000 cameras would be installed in Toronto’s subways, streetcars and buses, he asserts that citizens “shrugged and went about their business”).
Read morePrivacy in Facebook apps — the risk of the SuperPoke
The social networking site Facebook has been under scrutiny lately for lax security with its applications feature. Applications in Facebook are created by third-party software developers and are run on third-party servers. These applications can take many forms – a quiz, a game, or just another way to reach out to friends – but the common feature in all is that they allow software developers to access Facebook users’ personal data.
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