This graph from the Poneman Institute’s report, 2012 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy (PDF) depicts the seven-year trends about people’s views about their control over personal information and importance of privacy.
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2012 Thoughts About Privacy
Posted by Marti Weston on January 31, 2013
Posted in parents and technology, online security, privacy, data collecting, information freedom, digital change | Tagged: personal information, privacy, digital life, 2012 Most Trusted Companies, Poneman Institute, online data | Leave a Comment »
Kids’ Online Privacy Legislation – Will It Ever Happen?
Posted by Marti Weston on May 21, 2012
Image made with Wordfoto with a picture taken at the Library of Congress.
Much of what a child or teen does online gets added to a digital profile. Even when information is not supposed to be collected, it accumulates – somewhere. Moreover, when a child or adolescent acts impulsively or thoughtlessly online, no way exists to erase or delete a digital mistake. Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society posts a great digital dossier video that parents and educators may want to use as a conversation tool.
To learn a lot more about the state of privacy policy, especially as it concerns children and adolescents, read the article Congress Revisits Online Privacy Legislation over at Boston.com.
Posted in acceptable use, data collecting, data sharing, digital footprints, digital parenting, Do Not Track Kids Act, parents and technology, privacy | Tagged: Berkman Center, Boston Globe, digital footprints, digital kids, digital parenting, Do Not Track Kids Act, Kids privacy, privacy, profiles | Leave a Comment »
Still Think Google is Mostly a Search Engine?
Posted by Marti Weston on February 14, 2012
The next time people in your family use Google to look for personal health information, they may be contributing to scientific research.
Google search data is beginning to be used to learn more about the flu. In fact, it’s beginning to look like Google Flu Trends (GFT), which keeps track of searches that inquire about influenza symptoms, may be faster and more effective than the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) surveillance network when it comes to predicting where the flu will become most prevalent. To learn more read this Google Flu Trends FAQ.
Posted in data collecting, online databases, online safety, parents and technology, searching | Tagged: CDC, digital parenting, Google, Google Flu Trends, health information, searching | Leave a Comment »
Quiz: How Much do You Know About Social Media?
Posted by Marti Weston on April 12, 2011
Take the quiz!
To get a sense of how much you really know about the social networking world and the movers and shakers who are actively developing and tweaking it, take a social media quiz. The Big Social Media Quiz over at the Liberate Media website.
A user needs 70% to pass this quiz, and though I know all sorts of minutia about social media, I only answered 50% of the questions correctly. Sigh!
Liberate Media is a PR firm with social media expertise.
Posted in data collecting, data sharing, digital parenting, media literacy, parents and technology, social media, social networking, teens and technology | Tagged: advertising, collecting data, digital media, digital parenting, marketing, media literacy, personal data, Quiz, Social media | Leave a Comment »
