You Are No Longer Anonymous Online

Social media has given individuals the chance to join global conversations and comment on any range of topics. However, some prefer to surf the Internet anonymously, and would rather protect their online privacy by hiding behind screen names or usernames when leaving comments on a blog, news article, forum, or video. While you might think [...]

Hayley Kaplan: How to Protect your Privacy and Security when Using Social Media – Part I

Social Media use has increased dramatically and it’s hard not to be aware of the decrease in general privacy or the challenge of keeping our privacy intact. Intentional or accidental sharing of personal information and photos can be frustrating or devastating and I have a growing list of stories to prove it. My stories include [...]

Privacy and Facebook Facial Recognition

Back in June, Facebook shocked the world when it announced its acquisition of Israeli-based facial recognition software startup face.com. The company’s technology was already used by Facebook to help suggest photo tags but the acquisition led to many questions from Facebook users and privacy advocates. Users want to know whether people who aren’t friends will be [...]

Snapchat Screenshot

110 million photos have been transmitted using Snapchat, but are those photos really gone for good? Find out if shared photos or other content is impacting your online reputation by filling out the form on the right for a free consultation. Reputation911 is excited to introduce an industry first, the Snapchat Checker. By entering your [...]

Privacy Breach: LinkedIn and eHarmony

How will these recent privacy breaches affect your online reputation? What does it say about the need to protect your privacy while completing online reputation management?  The only community is still buzzing about the recent privacy breach experienced by LinkedIn yesterday. It was reported that about 6.5 million encrypted password were taken and a website [...]

SnapChat

Snapchat users: there is no guarantee that this app will keep your private photos offline. The only way to keep yourself from falling victim to a Snapchat screenshot is to practice online reputation management. To find out more, fill out the form on the right for a free consultation. Recently, a new app called Snapchat [...]

Cleaning up Facebook

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today’s topic:  Cleaning up Facebook                Facebook started as a site for college kids to socialize with their friends, but these days it is not uncommon for [...]

Internet Privacy: 3 Ways to Keep Your Information Safe Online

From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn to blogs, everyone leaves a digital trail as they browse the web. Most of the time, you don’t realize how much of your information is freely available online until it is too late: sites such as Spokeo, MyLife aggregate all your information online and any website where you login [...]