My Privacy is More Important than Your Privacy
Consumers are spending more and more time protecting their privacy by locking down their social networking access to the outside world. Yet they quite often adopt a “my privacy is more important than your privacy” attitude when they decide to share that embarrassing photograph of you from the office holiday party. Once they share the image to their friends, it falls into the privacy settings of all of those people. And if one of them decides it can go viral, you can end up in the reputation toilet. Here are a few scenarios that actually happened on the web where the victim was completely helpless.
A young girl was chatting with her friends about the upcoming prom. They were trying to arrange a limo to take a group of about 30 kids to the event and were discussing how to pay for it. Our young girl said something along the lines of, “I can pay most of it because my dad just got a new job. He hates his boss but he says it pays better than his last job so I’m sure we can afford it.” One of the kids in the conversation said something to his parents and it turns out they knew someone who worked for the same company as the first young girl’s dad and before long, the first young girl’s dad was being invited into his boss’s office for a chat. What started as a seemingly innocuous comment may have cost her dad his job.
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