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Quiz: How Much do You Know About Social Media?
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...
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Project Eavesdrop: NPR’s Story About Our Unintentional Sharing
Just what can our Internet activity tell about us, and who can find the information? What do we unintentionally share? We tell our children not to share specifics kinds of personal information, but...
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Google Dashboard: A Connected-World Teaching Tool for All Ages
If you use Google, take a few minutes to check out the Google Dashboard and look over a detailed digital footprint snapshot of your Google activities. Learning about digital footprints is an important...
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How Much Privacy Do I Have? DuckDuckGo Gives More
Although I believed that I had taken significant steps to maintain a modicum of privacy in my 21st Century digital life, I was wrong. I am less than halfway through Bruce Schneier’s book, Data and...
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Quizzes? Fun, but Each Quiz Wants Your Information
If like me you get a kick out of taking Facebook quizzes and sharing your results with friends, it’s time to think a bit more about caution and privacy. Have you ever wondered why these quizzes pop up...
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Are You Thinking Enough About Phone Apps & Personal Privacy?
It seems so simple when we install apps. Download, click agree and OK a few times, and use. But it’s not as simple as it seems because we may be unintentionally giving free access to lots of our data....
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Can Honesty With Security Questions Not Be the Best Policy?
We hear a lot of discussion about secure passwords, but now people are wondering whether we should pay more attention to the answers we give for security questions. The article Why You Should Lie When...
View ArticleTwo Pithy Quotes on Social Media & Democracy
Social media and the digital tools that we use every day have transported us into a strange new era. As we use these tools to work and play we tacitly allow them to collect incredible amounts of our...
View ArticleSenator Edward J. Markey Proposes A Privacy Bill of Rights
Every day, it seems, we hear of another hack of credit cards or the theft of personal data from health records. It’s difficult to keep track of it all, much less protect passwords (are yours secure?),...
View ArticleOnline Security and Passwords… Passwords… Passwords
Are you using any of the passwords that millions and millions of other people also use?
View ArticleShould You Make Up Answers to Security Questions?
Why You Should Lie When Setting Up Password Security Questions, over at the Techlicious site, makes me seriously consider whether the use of security questions — and the answers that we provide —...
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