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Can LifeLock really protect you?
You’ve probably seen LifeLock’s ads on TV: The CEO, Todd Davis, hands out his own Social Security number to strangers and even has a truck with the number painted on it drive around town, assuring the viewers that, thanks to LifeLock’s protection, no one can steal his identity. He also claims that, should a client’s identity be […]
What You Need to Know about Do Not Call Lists
You’re trying to keep the telemarketers from calling you. You decide to register your number with the National Do Not Call Registry. Now you won’t get a single unsolicited call, right?
Wrong. Let’s go through some of the most common misconceptions of the Do Not Call Registry, and what the reality is:
Misconception #1 - Being on the […]
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Don’t take the bait of phishing
For the past several years, online scam artists have been using a clever email technique to trick people into giving away sensitive information. The technique is called “phishing,” and it works like this:
The scam artist sends an email that appears to be from a bank, online auction site, or other online merchant. The email says […]
Right cause, wrong law
Lori Drew, the 49-year-old Missouri resident who allegedly posed as a teenage boy on MySpace in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, pled not guilty on Monday to charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress. The case is before the federal court in California, where […]
Remembering Megan Meier - When MySpace Privacy Goes Wrong
The recent case of the St. Louis mom Lori Drew posing as a boy and ridiculing 13 year-old Megan Meier is obviously horrible. Drew created a fake MySpace profile and then told the emotional 13 year old girl that “the world would be better without her..”
It resulted in the girl hanging herself, and a large […]
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CARU- Children’s Advertising Review Unit
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) was formed by the National Advertising review Council (NARC) in 1974. CARU is a self-regulated program that promotes responsible children’s advertising.
CARU’s basic activities are the review and evaluation of child-directed advertising in all media, and online privacy practices as they affect children. When these are found to be […]
Junk Mail- How Many Trees Are Killed Each Year?
About 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail (that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months), of which 44% is thrown in the trash before it is even opened. The average person receives about 1.5 personal letters each week and about 10.8 pieces […]
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