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Social media influence tool Klout now allows users to delete their account. Here's how you can delete your Klout account.
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Evolving Privacy in Social Media
Facebook and You : If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold. 
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits... 
A new Google patent could enable the search giant to base advertising on background noise during phone conversations... The bits and bytes about your life can easily be used against you. Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down. 
Every time someone signs up for Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube they give away their personal data and rarely question it. This data is stored and used for marketing purposes. That’s how marketers are able to do such niche targeting on platforms like Facebook. 
Personalized Internet filters are making us less smart, we are isolated in our own information bubble not of our own making.
Taking Control of Your Data
This conference, slated for 2012, will be looking at how to better control your data online. Notice the data outlay on the top right corner of the page that tellsyou a little about yourself and your device. 
According to people familiar with the talks, the settlement would require Facebook to obtain users' consent before making "material retroactive changes" to its privacy policies. That means that Facebook must get consent to share data in a way that is different from how the user originally agreed the data could be used.
"Take This Lollipop" was just a side project for Halloween, but it has become the fastest-liked application ever on Facebook -- and arguably the most terrifying. 
Klout has made some concrete changes to protect the privacy of unregistered users. The company is no longer creating profiles or scores based on unregistered users pulled from Facebook. 
"Developers are upset because Google is no longer the passive crawler it once was and users will likely become upset once they realize that comments about drunken parties, embarrassing moments or what they thought were private details are going to start showing up next to their names in Google’s search results." 
Even if your kids keep all their Facebook privacy settings tight and limited to visibility among friends only, if your children comment on a friend's public status update, that information becomes public. 
Is online influence tool Klout using our own family to build their numbers? Your non-social media savvy friends may have a Klout profile and not even know it. |
![This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac | Evolving Privacy in Social Media | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/pVq6gQ_-3VrZV3qvrjSWYjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
These are all girls with publicly visible Facebook profiles who have checked into these locations recently using Foursquare. Girls Around Me then shows you a map where all the girls in your area trackable by Foursquare area. If there’s more than one girl at a location, you see the number of girls there in a red bubble. Click on that, and you can see pictures of all the girls who are at that location at any given time. The pictures you are seeing are their social network profile pictures.” 
Mobile app privacy is becoming a growing concern with over 90 million people owning smart phones. 
Did the shooter who wounded two men outside a popular downtown restaurant last weekend learn of their whereabouts through Twitter? 
Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. 
Here is a list of privacy published in 2011. More cases of tiny cameras found in public bathrooms and a tanning salon. The advances in technology are used by people looking to invade privacy. 
Facebook resonds to concerns by the FTC aboutprivacy.
Effective today I am creating two new corporate officer roles to make sure our commitments will be reflected in what we do internally and externally:
- Erin Egan will become Chief Privacy Officer, Policy. - Michael Richter will become Chief Privacy Officer, Products. According to people familiar with the talks, the settlement would require Facebook to obtain users' consent before making "material retroactive changes" to its privacy policies. That means that Facebook must get consent to share data in a way that is different from how the user originally agreed the data could be used.
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are reportedly nearing a settlement on a complaint over the company’s privacy policies.
In December 2009, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the regulatory agency the the social network had switched on “simplified” privacy policies that were “unfair and deceptive.” 
Critics claim Klout is invading the privacy of those who haven't even joined the service, including children, by compiling "shadow profiles" of them based on their activity online. ![Protecting Your Online Reputation: 4 Things You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC] | Evolving Privacy in Social Media | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/0-t0SBWKaQiM2ZfvDlwIojl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
This infographic shows you how to manage your online reputation, perhaps saving you some embarrassment, or even your career.
Social media influence tool Klout now allows users to delete their account. Here's how you can delete your Klout account. 
Megan stated, “If you want your Tweets to only be available to approved followers, you can set your account to protected. Tweets posted by a protected account are only visible to approved followers and not otherwise publicly available to third parties.” |
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