April 22, 2010 by Terry.

New Social Networking tool, from your Mobile Phone! Pros and Cons

Using your mobile phone and this new mobile app, taking a photo of someone, you may be able to discover more about them, before you walk over to introduce yourself [and maybe get wallop up-side the head or major what-for from them].

“A new social networking tool allows mobile phone users to identify people just by taking a photo.”

Of course, the author of this story brings up the topic of Identity Theft, which peaked my ears.

Read full story here:
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2010/04/18/New_stalking_app_for_mobile_phones_452367.html

Wrap up your week with a Successful Thursday.

Terry Kohler
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April 20, 2010 by Terry.

Heard today that YOUR Tweets will become record at the Library of Congress.  Someone could use those Tweets and discover things of the Tweetie and put the puzzle pieces together.  Who has time to do that?  Criminals who don’t live a real life, don’t have a real job,…

Apparently The Library of Congress will store archived copies of every public Tweet ever sent, beginning with the company’s founding in March 2006. That means Twitter planned keeping Tweets from the beginning.  The archives will be stored digitally with the intention of preserving Tweets related to important historical events.  Digitally means they can use algorithms and other programs to figure Tweetie’s “anything” out.  If you ever go into hiding, don’t Tweet coded messages to your family or friends, they will find you, and I don’t mean your family or friends.  News reports said that every public tweet…

Google has also announced a new product, called Google Replay, which allows users to search for and access Tweets from a specific moment in time, also aimed at finding and accessing Tweets related to historical events.  These two words seem to be common.  But I bet they are very loosely used.

“twitter to be archived” is the phrase I used today to learn more — but be sure to click on NEWS instead of the usual WEB search.  Here is one intersting result:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100414_us_library_of_congress_to_acquire_entire_twitter_archive/

I mentioned IDentity Theft in the beginning.  Think the Library of Congress won’t suffer a data breach.  The IRS did.  How secure is their data/computers supposed to be?

See if places you have been to in some form has lost data:  http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#CP
The 14 bulleted items at the top of the page may be of some valuable info for you.

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