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Oakland Police Scandal Uncovered Through Facebook and Instagram

by Florin Langer | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control

Oakland police officers’ likes, follows, and comments implicated them in a sexual misconduct investigation. Some had strong privacy settings but some didn’t, and investigators seem to have pieced together their roles through the profiles of those that didn’t. Some of...

Privacy Lessons: It’s Hard to Hide When You’re on Social Media

by Julia Bernd | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints

This happened a couple months ago: An acquaintance (we’ll call him Egbert) who was estranged from his wife (we’ll call her Namaa) became drunkenly angry about her refusal to communicate with him, and began talking at length about how he was going to kill her. Not just...

What Facebook Really Knows About You

by Melody Valdez | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog, Online Is Real, You're Leaving Footprints

Do you have your own Facebook account? Are you among the one billion users active on Facebook? According to researchers from The University of Cambridge and Stanford University, a Facebook user’s psychological make-up could be determined based on their activity on the...

A Picture Is Worth 20,000 Shares

by Itzel Martinez | May 18, 2015 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control

If we were asked, What age group should we focus on to educate about online privacy? Many of us would immediately think of teenagers as the target group to shed some knowledge upon. But I say, What about adults? Anyone who is on a social-media site should have...

The Internet Is Uncontrollable

by Itzel Martinez | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Online Is Real, You Can't Escape

With the release of the movie The Interview, Sony Pictures suffered substantially from attacks by hackers, including leakage of internal data from the company and threats of violence against movie theaters who choose to play the movie. Despite the efforts of the group...

The Internet Never Forgets (No Matter Who You Are)

by Chan Kim | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control

The CFO of Twitter recently made headlines by (apparently) accidentally tweeting information about an upcoming business deal: Get the New York Times story: Twitter’s C.F.O. Suffers a Social Media Faux Pas This event — and the CFO’s inability to take the...
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