In these days of the Internet and Social Networking, the subject of Privacy has taken on new facets.
Post updated: 25 May 2012
"Defamation requires that four elements be met: (1) there’s a false statement of fact, not opinion; (2) that’s publicly published to at least one other person; (3) if the defamatory matter is of public concern, there’s fault amounting at least to negligence on the part of the publisher; and (4) there must be damage to the talked-about person’s reputation. For celebrities and public figures, there’s an additional requirement that the statement be maliciously untrue–you knew it was false, but you said it with bad and hurtful intentions."
It should also be pointed out that the removal of content from Google using Webmaster Tools has to be performed by the webmaster of the "offending" site. Google will not remove content from its servers as a consequence of "alleged" infractions of their terms of service.
There is a world of difference in the antics of the traditional Cyber-Bully and businesses that don't like what is being said about them on the Internet.
White Pages
If you can't find a white pages listing for a person who you know their address I think you can safely say that they either do not want to be on mailing lists or they have something to hide. I guess if you were of sufficient influence in a community you could use that influence to expunge your personal details from directories such as White Pages.
What I find strange about the White Pages entry above is that when an address was entered into their search and then the "neighbors" button pressed only addresses that are on the border of the address that was originally entered show. It is almost as if the addresses in the whole block have been purposely hidden.
Post updated: 25 May 2012
- Google Privacy - the changes 1 March 2012
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- What are people saying about you online?
- NetworkClean - SAVING FACE ON FACEBOOK
- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin Guardian, Ian Katz, 15 April 2012
- CIRA - Interested Party web-form
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
- Using Social Media to Bully
- Privacy Rights Clearing House
- Do not track, data brokers, & what we’d like to see in privacy: our public comment to Congress - Albine, the online privacy company, March 29th, 2012
- How to delete things from the Internet: A guide to doing the impossible - Albine, the online privacy company, April 5th, 2012
- Blogger Anonymity
"Defamation requires that four elements be met: (1) there’s a false statement of fact, not opinion; (2) that’s publicly published to at least one other person; (3) if the defamatory matter is of public concern, there’s fault amounting at least to negligence on the part of the publisher; and (4) there must be damage to the talked-about person’s reputation. For celebrities and public figures, there’s an additional requirement that the statement be maliciously untrue–you knew it was false, but you said it with bad and hurtful intentions."
It should also be pointed out that the removal of content from Google using Webmaster Tools has to be performed by the webmaster of the "offending" site. Google will not remove content from its servers as a consequence of "alleged" infractions of their terms of service.
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White Pages
If you can't find a white pages listing for a person who you know their address I think you can safely say that they either do not want to be on mailing lists or they have something to hide. I guess if you were of sufficient influence in a community you could use that influence to expunge your personal details from directories such as White Pages.
1 comment:
Great list!
I was looking for a comparison between what Google have adopted and what the rest of the world are doing.
How about a few more US links? I also tend to think that there is a bit of over-kill when it comes to government demands on what people upload.
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