As Janet Kornblum writes in USA Today, more and more business professionals are confronting the repercussions of TMI – “too much information” — online. Just after her honeymoon last March, Wadooah Wali took the de rigueur next step these days: She changed her status on the networking websites Facebook and MySpace from “in a relationship” [...]
Entries from January 18th, 2008
Social Networking and Online Privacy: “all the walls come down”
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Networking
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Real ID Produces a Real Showdown
January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Constitutional Rights
Real ID pits states against the federal government. The federal government issued national standards on Friday that states would have to meet in order for driver’s licenses they issue to qualify as identification at airports and federal buildings, setting the stage for a confrontation with states that have voted not to cooperate. Under a measure [...]
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Muncie, Indiana Reacts to Google Street View’s Glaze
January 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Google and Privacy
Muncie, Indiana residents are speaking out, as TheStarPress.com notes. A private person, Cathy Dowd does everything in her power to keep people from finding her information online. Now, she wants to know how to get the detailed view of her Muncie home taken off Google’s “Street View” mapping function. “How can I get eliminated from [...]
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