Sunday, May 9, 2010

"The Facebook Privacy War: What Is Personal Data?" - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

"The Facebook Privacy War: What Is Personal Data?" - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.


Two Minute Video Below "Data 101"
What Is Data? What Is Private?

On the heels of The Daily Riff''s recent posts, "Get Off Facebook: Middle School Principal Takes On Cyberbullying" and "Is The New Facebook A Deal With The Devil?", you would think we might have a problem with Facebook. Well, we do.

Technology has MUCH to offer our society. However, as with everything (especially thesedays!), you have to keep a watchful eye on those companies and or individuals that may take advantage of a situation.

Regarding technology and social network sites in particular, when you have privacy policies that are changed mid-stream and where the customer has to actively monitor (!) the site's privacy settings, this is the time to let these companies know "we, the customer, won't buy into" this "kind of misrepresentation". Especially when you have a behemoth like Facebook operating so cavalierly, it makes one think of Goldman Sachs with their arrogance and disregard for the customer. Recently adding to Facebook's woes related to customers' outcry against its privacy changes, the company just encountered yet another too-big, too-fast incident with a tech glitch that jeopardized their standing with customers even further: private