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8 Things To Include In Your Blog Privacy Policy

October 14, 2019 by Natividad Sidlangan

blog privacy policy

Back in the previous decade, a blogger could have gotten away with not including anything serious or basically what’s the equivalent of a fine print on a document. After all, blogging mostly just fun and games back then. Nowadays, however, blogging is a business among many things; a business needs laws to protect both it and the customers. This is where the blog privacy policy comes in.

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Filed Under: Blog Tips, Website Security Tagged With: Online Privacy, Privacy, privacy policy, website security

Balancing Blogging and Your Family

March 9, 2018 by The Blog Herald

When you’re blogging to share your interests with the world — and maybe make some money — it’s possible that your work will sometimes take center stage. While that’s normal, you want to make sure that it isn’t the normal way of things. It’s essential that your time is balanced between your blog and your family. That way, you still get to spend time with the people you love the most while you do the work you love and publish it for your readers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: blogging and family life, Privacy

Facebook Recommends Psychiatrist’s Friends Connect, Completely Violates All Privacy Policies

September 6, 2016 by Meagan Freeman

As if Facebook “people you may know” feature wasn’t creepy enough. (Listen, if I really do know them and aren’t friends on Facebook, chances are I don’t want to be!) Anyways, it seems the social media giant crossed the line when one psychiatrist discovered that Facebook was suggesting that her patients friend each other.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Facebook, Privacy

Magic Lantern: The Hidden Truth

July 31, 2013 by Blog Herald

Magic Lantern

The Federal Bureau of Investigation or the FBI, as they are more commonly known, is notorious for their covert surveillance activities which have frequently caused public outcries. The Bureau’s history with Magic Lantern is one such example. Soon after the arrest of crime boss Nicodemo S. Scarfo in 1999, the agency, which was previously thought to have the best interest of citizens at heart, began development of Magic Lantern when it realized it needed a more comprehensive monitoring solution to aid in their investigations of harassment, extortion and identity theft. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Infographic Tagged With: Infographics, PRISM, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Facebook Reaches Settlement Agreement With FTC

November 29, 2011 by James Johnson

Facebook Logo with Phone

Facebook Logo with PhoneFacebook and the FTC have finally reached an agreement in regards to privacy uses which the governmental agency believes Facebook violated as the company shared more information with advertisers than their members originally agreed to allow.

In charges dating back to 2009 when Facebook changed its privacy settings so private “friends only” message became visible to everyone (such as friends lists) the FTC said:

“They didn’t warn users that this change was coming, or get their approval in advance.”

Under the agreed upon settlement Facebook must have users “opt-in” to any new changes made to the company’s privacy policy which would change the way in which a users privacy is shared. The new system replaces the company’s “opt-out” system which changed privacy settings for all users and then gave them the opportunity to opt-out through a confusing interface of user settings.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Facebook, Internet Privacy, Privacy

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