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Digital Life After Death

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No one wants to think about their death, but it’s a fact of life. If you live a long life if it’s tragically cut short, at some point you will no longer be around.

Unlike previous generations, most people alive today will leave behind a digital legacy, mobile phone contacts and social media accounts to digital online photos.

Without proper planning, that legacy might end up causing more distress to your loved ones, with inaccessible social media pages, no control over comments being left, and possibly lost treasured memories.

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ICO fines Facebook £500,000 for breaches of data protection law

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The ICO have issued a fine of £500,000 to Facebook in light of serious breaches of data protection law. This was the maximum fine that could be issued under the Data Protection Act that was in place at the time of the breaches, under GDPR the fines could have been considerably higher.

Facebook have been found to have processed the personal information of users unfairly, notably allowing developers access to personal information without sufficiently clear and informed consent. Access was even granted to users information who had not downloaded the app, but were friends of users who had.

Additionally, Facebook failed to make suitable checks on the apps and developers using their system. One developer was able to harvest the personal information of up to 87 million users worldwide, without their knowledge.

After the Cambridge Analytica story broke and the breach of data protection was identified, Facebook failed to manage the breached data, waiting almost 3 years before suspending some developers access to the system.

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Facebook failed to sufficiently protect the privacy of its users before, during and after the unlawful processing of this data. A company of its size and expertise should have known better and it should have done better.

Elizabeth Denham
Information Commissioner
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General Data Protection Regulations

Data Protection Act 2018

The GDPR UK implementation and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 govern how organisations can process personally identifying information.

If your organisation needs to process personal information, it needs to be registered on the ICO database, and have a Data Protection Policy in place detailing the use of personal information.

Personal Information is any information that can identify an individual, such as employee names, customer id’s or CCTV footage.

If you need help assessing your GDPR compliance, contact us immediately for a GDPR review.

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What Does Facebook Know About You?

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Facebook now say Cambridge Analytica had access to 87 million accounts

“It is reasonable to expect that if you had that [default] setting turned on, that in the last several years someone has probably accessed your public information in this way“
Mark Zuckerberg (BBC News)
Mark Zuckerberg has said that 1.1 million of the accounts improperly accessed by the political consultancy were from UK based users. He said that some malicious services had used a facility that allowed them to link the public profile of a user to an email or mobile phone number acquired elsewhere. Read more

Facebook Accounts Being Hacked

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A number of Facebook accounts have been compromised, with accounts sending out personalised messenger posts to friends, with links back to a Facebook page, such as a pages called “216,526 Views” and using a YouTube like icon.

If you receive such a message, contact the sender buy another means to let them know, and delete the message.

If you think your account has been compromised, first go to your account settings, security and login and check where you’re logged in. Log out any unknown sessions.

Now go to your connected apps and remove all apps or games.

Now go and charge your account password, and enable login verification emails and 2-step authentication in Security and Login Settings

  1. Scroll down and tap Account Settings > Security and Login
  2. Scroll down and tap Use two-factor authentication
  3. Tap the box next to Two-factor authentication

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    Check in Here

    On many platforms the ability to check-in or tag a business is expected by users, and if your business is not already officially listed it could get added unofficially, then you have very little control over what gets posted to that unofficial page.

    Just because you don’t own your geo-location data doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

    Marketing Opportunity

    Not having your business listed on search engines and maps means you’re missing out on potential clients, and missing the chance to advertise your special offers to new people.

    Many potential customers will search using services like Google maps and Bing Maps without realising it, so not being correctly listed could mean you’re missing out on business.

    Multiple Services

    Keeping multiple location services and maps up-to-date with your business can become a nightmare, missing an important update out from one service could impact on your potential new customers. Some services will scrape in information from other sources to try to present a complete picture of your business, if you’re not in control of all of that information, the information potential customers are seeing could be wrong.

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    We can help you manage your online locations. We can make sure you appear correctly and consistently, and listed on all the major mapping services and checking-in apps. We can keep all your services up-to-date with images, locations, business contact details and social media links.

    Social Media

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    Businesses Being Social

    Most people know about social media. In fact last year it was reported that 81% of people will turn to their favourite social media platform to check out a new business before searching for a website for them.

    It’s expected by your customers to be able to see information about your business, get contact and opening details, directions and reviews from their social media platform of choice, so not being on social media could be as detrimental as not being on the internet at all.

    People Being Social

    Social media may be a big platform for business, but it started out and is powered by individual users.

    There are some individuals who are out to con unsuspecting users, using any means the can. As with all situations, you need to be weary and on your guard. Unless you can totally and utterly confirm the authenticity of and message or link, treat it with suspicion.

    Which Platform is best?

    There are a few main platforms that are popular, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Each one is successful because it appeals to a different audience and has different capabilities.

    For a business, you should look at covering two or more platforms to be able to engage potential clients, and as a user you’re likely to be on several platforms depending on your preferences, what your friends and family use and what features you want to make use of.

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    We can advise you on which platforms might be best for you and give you guidance on using them and on staying safe on them.

    For businesses, we can setup, secure and help manage your business profiles, show you how to interact with users and keep your business listings up-to-date. We can also manage your SEO standing (this helps with how high up your business is on google search for example) and help you get listed on Google and Bing maps, and be available for users to ‘check-in’ when they visit you.

    Facebook Scams : No one will share this…

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    tinsleyNET Social Media ServicesFacebook Scams That Demean Others

    You may have seen posts with status messages along the lines of:

    • No one will share this because she is disabled
    • Nobody Likes me just because…
    • Click Like and type Amen
    • Share and type YES if you…

    And a photo of someone showing a disability or with a disfiguration or medical condition, encouraging you to share the post because no one else will. But these posts are fake and demeaning to the people featured in the photos.

    What the posts say they are for

    The posts suggest the person in the photo is the original poster and that you, as the reader, are ashamed of them because of their background or disability. It suggests that you help them by sharing the post, liking, and possibly also typing some message or word underneath.

    What you should do

    The posts are fake, they are designed to make you feel emotionally involved to increase user interaction. They are conning unsuspecting, kind-hearted Facebook users into interacting with the posts (sharing, commenting and liking) out of shame and pity.

    If you come across one of these posts, you should block and report the page using the arrow on the top right of the shared post (be careful here not to block and report your friend by mistake!) If you don’t feel confident in reporting the page as spam, then just ignore the post.

    It’s not going to hurt anyone if I do share it though…

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    The photos used on these posts (some of them are edited before posting to make it look like they have a missing limb) are stolen from Facebook profiles, Flickr groups or other photo sharing sites and used without permission from the person featured in them.

    The posts are disrespectful to the person in them, and in sharing the photo you are unsuspectingly spreading the hurt they cause the victim.

    Why are they doing this?

    The posters have only one interest in mind, to promote themselves on Facebook at the cost of the poor victims in their posts. Their goal is to get as many people to share and comment on their horrid posts.

    Facebook calls this kind of interaction ‘organic’ and the more organic shares, likes and comments a page can generate, the more popular Facebook considers it to be. This helps promote the page on Facebook, and once they have all this ‘positive’ organic feedback, they can then use the page for other uses, like promoting hate speech, trying to distort the ‘now trending’ section on Facebook with their own agenda, and possibly spreading links to other similar Facebook pages and websites.

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    If you need help with using social media, and in spotting fake and spammy content, we are involved in a free-to-attend drop-in IT training session where you can find out how to be more social on social media. Contact us for information, or head along to the Hub at Ashmore Park, Wednesfield on a Wednesday between 10am – 1pm.

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