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Tag: online privacy
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The Online Privacy Checklist Every CMO Needs
CMOs are charged with social media marketing and monitoring what prospects and clients are saying online, but lack the technological capacity, power and often, the desire to monitor what employees are saying online. This thinking is flawed, at best and downright dangerous, at worst.
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Report Confirms Challenge for Businesses: Unmasking Anonymous Web Users
Keeping a low profile 30 years ago meant putting the shades down, staying out of social clubs and avoiding phone calls. Virtually, the public hiding game is a bit trickier, and a new survey revealed most internet users are doing just that -- trying to hide online.
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Consumers Prefer Targeted Advertising, If Only to Support Free Content
Which do you prefer -- online ads for random products and services or ads directed towards your interests? If you’re anything like those surveyed by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), you favor targeted advertising. While targeted ads may win over consumers, it’s not for the reasons you may think.
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Microsoft Releases Resources to Educate Internet Users on Privacy and Security
With a large number of Americans concerned about privacy issues while online, Microsoft has taken steps to launch a new campaign to educate internet users about online privacy and security.
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Enliken Helps You Control Your Privacy, Tells You Who is Selling Your Data to Advertisers
Earlier this month we told you about PrivacyFix, a browser extension that helps put the user in control of their own online privacy.
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How Filtering, Personalization Can Narrow Our Perspectives Online
The Internet promises to provide us with different perspectives, points of view and opinions, but we continue to form connections with others whose views are similar to our own.
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The Perils of Underage Marketing, Social Media
By now you’ve heard that there are reportedly more minors on Facebook than intended. While this clearly raises issues of online security and safety, it also suggests that Facebook marketers may be targeting a different population than they intended: Children.
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EFF How To: Protecting Your Private Data Online
Think the government is watching you? You're probably right. But for the rest of us, we can turn to Surveillance Self-Defense to educate us about the law and technology of communications surveillance, computer searches and seizures -- and more importantly, how to keep your private data out of other peoples'
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