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Online Privacy

September 7, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

Last weekend I did it too. I spammed my whole email address book (850 addresses) with invitations to Quechup. It got me thinking about a few different online privacy issues, but first the story...

Running your address book through social networks has become quite common. I’ve done it on Facebook and Twitter, so I didn’t second guess doing so on Quechup. After all, I’d been invited to join by a trusted source, so it probably was a great new site. The next morning I learned that when I ran my email account through the friend finder, it had lifted all 850 addresses and emailed every single person an spam invite. It was a reminder of the need to check out sites for yourself and read the fine print, really read it.

Other news this week is that Facebook is opening up to search engines. Users now need to select if their profile will be searchable and how much data will be available for public searches. This is what prompted me to start limiting my profile to loose connections and breaking connections with strangers.

What are you doing to proctect your privacy online?

posted by leah.jones

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