Privacy

Privacy requires work. Like it or not, protecting your privacy is up to you. Laws and  rules are different in every country and every state. Often, laws are unevenly or rarely enforced, so you will have to be perseverant and vigilant. Remember: Most of the Internet is not designed to protect the privacy of those … Read more Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires

This week’s post is a short reminder of why you need to be careful with personal information on the Internet. As I have mentioned in earlier posts it is easy to make up a fake persona on the Internet.  This cuts both ways because when you are communicating on the Internet identity is not guaranteed. … Read more You’re Who?

Once information about us is shared online it becomes part of what others know or can find out about us. In addition, someone’s information footprint isn’t just the information about them that exists in digital form; it encompasses everything that every other person, entity, or database knows about them. Online activities are becoming an ever … Read more What Happens On The Internet Doesn’t Stay On The Internet

Today, I add a new dimension to our privacy defenses: thinking about the future. Just because something cannot be found on the  Internet today doesn’t mean it will not be available in the  future.  Think about how much information was available online ten years ago compared to now.  Think about how searches are easier and … Read more The Future Has Arrived — It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet

This adage is as true today as it was in Benjamin Franklin’s time and it is equally true for electronic and nonelectronic communication.  There is no way to make people (or companies) respect privacy.  People love to repost, retweet, share, and tag. Privacy policies on websites are constantly changing. Data that has been deleted may … Read more Three People Can Keep A Secret If Two Of Them Are Dead

You cannot have privacy without security. Without security, no matter how careful you are with how you give access to your personal information, your private personal information will not stay private. Communication on the Internet is like sending and receiving postcards.  It is not very secure nor private.  This is why you must take steps … Read more You Can’t Have One Without The Other

Information about you is valuable.  Someone is going to use information about you. The ways your information is used may be innocuous or just mildly annoying, for example to tailor which online ads you see, but in the worst-case scenario, digital information can be used against you. Data from cell phones, email accounts, computer hard … Read more What Are You Worth?

Welcome to Geekslv.com . This week’s blog post is late because of the change of our web domain. The bad news is you have lost a lot of privacy by being online. The way things are set up it is almost impossible to stay anonymous on the Internet.  For example, you can be identified by … Read more They Know When You’ve Been Sleeping….

Welcome to the Geeks on the Go  blog.  I hope you will find the subjects interesting. For the next 10 weeks I am going to blog about privacy.  This information is adapted from http://teachingprivacy.org/ and a presentation by L4bF0x (you can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/l4bf0x ).  I will be covering one principle a week. … Read more Inaugural Post