Your digital shadow has a life of its own. Literally. The digital universe — the pile of digital information that includes everything from e-mail to YouTube videos — is growing faster than previously thought, according to a new study from the research firm IDC. IDC now estimates that, at 281 exabytes, the digital universe in [...]
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Only Your Digital Shadow Knows….
March 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Privacy and New Technology, Social Networking
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Leaving Facebook: The Long Goodbye or the Impossible Goodbye?
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Networking
News surfaced in recent days that users could deactivate but not delete their Facebook profiles, but the glare of publicity and Facebook member outrage has forced Facebook to reverse the Facebook profile deletion policy. Until now, Facebook has offered only a deactivation option, which keeps copies of the account’s personal information on the company’s servers. [...]
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Social Networking and Online Privacy: “all the walls come down”
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Networking
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” [...]
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