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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Privacy, please: New technologies could hide your identity online - NBC News - 0 views

  • Data crunching has grown so sophisticated and powerful, privacy researchers now warn that tracing identities from a pool of supposedly "anonymized" data is not just a possibility, it's a certainty.
  • "It is depressingly hard to try to anonymize data in a way that resists identification by a committed adversary," Arvind Narayanan, a privacy researcher at Princeton University, told NBC News.
  • such as the DuckDuckGo search engine, whose motto is "We don't track you" — gain popularity, an incentive would arise.
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  • Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo aren't likely to make changes to the way they collect or share data overnight. Some online tools politely request third-party trackers to stop, but such requests are like a "gentleman's anonymity based on a handshake," Ford said. Of course, if you're signed into a service like Facebook that asks for your real name up front, you've already checked anonymity at the door.
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    article by Nidhi Subbaraman, June 14, 2013 on lack of privacy online, NBC News
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Exploring YouTube's education channels - The Daily Nightly - 0 views

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    Brian Williams Nightly News NBC, July 1, 2013, news segment on YouTube's benefit as an educational channel
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Online, Women More Likely To Trust Each Other - Forbes - 1 views

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    "Now, new research finds that women are more likely to trust and value information found in online women's communities than other social networks or websites. In a survey of over 2,000 adult women commissioned by iVillage, a massive online community for women from NBC Universal, respondents said they valued time spent in women's communities three times more than social networks (45% vs. 15%) and almost twice as much as portals like Yahoo and AOL."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

6 things you can do now to be stealthier on the Internet - NBC News - 0 views

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    article by devin Coldewey, June 14, 2013, on how you can thwart tracking and and gain more privacy online.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Top 10 Workplace Trends Of 2013 - 0 views

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    article by Dan Schawbel, Forbes, October 21, 2013. 6. Freelance nation booms. We keep hearing about the surplus of freelancers out there and it's just the beginning. Next year, there will be millions more freelancers, replacing full-time workers. Companies will hire experts to solve problems instead of full-time employees and save on benefit packages. This is due to the economy and how corporations operate now. One third of American workers are freelancers, reports NBC News.
Lisa Levinson

'Hoarders' expert deletes my fears of tossing emails - NBC News.com - 0 views

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    Todd Bishop of Geekwire talks about fears of tossing emails and gets help from the psychologist on the A&E show Hoarders. Dr. Robin Zasio says hoarding emails, like hoarding "stuff" is about fear of needing it some day.
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