Matt Cornock

Tag: privacy

  • Guide: Controlling your online identity

    This Prezi presentation formed part of my workshop on Controlling Your Online Identity. It complements my Guide on Facebook Privacy. If the presentation does not appear below, view on Prezi.com. There is a little scaremongering in this guide! Deliberately, I might add, to provoke your thoughts and the overall privacy debate.

  • Be careful what you like on Facebook

    This post is about some very public privacy loopholes on Facebook, the knock-on effect for people searching on Google, and the question over accepted norms. There’s a rant, a helpful tip, and then I go all philosophical on you.

  • Guide: Facebook profile privacy – controlling your online presence

    One of our lecturers is trialling the use of Facebook with our undergraduates this year. The rationale is to provide a space where student from other institutions can interact, something that cannot be achieved with our VLE due to the locked-down nature of it. In preparation for this, we wanted to ensure that students were…

  • Trust or privacy?

    This is a follow-up post to the Top 10 Google Streetview Pros and Cons post. A lot of the arguments on the internet still focus on privacy issues. However, how do web users consider their own web security?

  • Why I’ve removed all but my name from Facebook

    I might not be one of those activists that has completely deactivate their Facebook profile or those lucky enough to actually have their profile deleted by the powers that be, but I’m getting a little annoyed about the whole terms and conditions saga. It’s been well documented in the news and on networks that Facebook’s…