Sunday, 22 July 2012
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The online world is full of useful information, great education and recreational opportunities, instant communication, and bad information. When using the Internet for business or just for surfing, you expose data and personal information to potential threats.
Online reputation management is something that might have seemed like an alien concept a few years ago, but is almost a requirement in our current information environment. Think back to last month - how much information did you put online? Did you talk about a doctor's appointment, or maybe submit a form with your full mailing address? There are websites out there right now that you can type in a name (even your child's name) and pull up their address, phone number(s), and any social media accounts they hold. You can even find out how much someone's house might be worth! A disgruntled employee can potentially do great harm to the reputation of a business with a few keystrokes. An unhappy ex, either personally or professionally, can do the same.
Children can be marketed to in ways parents don't want, or even become victims of cyber-bullying. We expose our children to a whole of unknown when we post their photos and personal information online.
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Go online to Reputation.com and have your questions answered via live chat or through the information available there. Using the Internet the right way means keeping your information guarded.
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Yes. My oldest sister was a victim of identity theft. She got a random phone call from an investigator who asked her if she lived in Arizona or had ever filed for unemployment or SSI there - we lived in Alabama at the time. And she had never been there.
Someone had stolen her SSN.
In another story, my father died in 2001. My mother remarried a few years later, to a man she thought she knew well. She had been good friends with him from kindergarten through 12th grade, and he reconnected with her after finding out about my father's death at a class reunion. Turned out that he had become a fraud of a person, and in the short time that they were married (Mom found out and their marriage was annulled) this guy had been using my father's SSN for things like buying cars etc. What a dick.