Protect IT

Greg Price

For the third week of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, let’s review protecting your “IT”.

Your use of connected technology creates a digital footprint. Your footprint is composed of every click, share, text, email, post, GPS coordinate created by you and your devices. The wealth of data points are constantly updated and subsequently stored.

The digital data trail is enticing to cybercriminals.

Why?

The data is worth a lot.

Some of the wealthiest companies in the world survive on the richness of your digital footprint. Google and Facebook generate the overwhelming majority of their incomes through monetizing your digital data trail into a product: a collection of your behaviors.

Advertisers, and, others, are intoxicated by the power of the digital behavior profile. Due to the sheer volume of data that can be collected from connected systems and the relative ease by which the data can be consumed, an incredibly accurate impression of you can be rendered.

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Facebook officially adds dating service

This article was originally published in The Troy Messenger on September 13, 2019.

Greg Price

Last week, to some fanfare, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Dating in the United States. I admit when I saw the press release, I wasn’t shocked.

First, let’s be honest, Facebook has been a dating platform unofficially for a long time. If you’re unaware of folks who use the service to scout would-be romantic partners, you’re not very observant. In fact, I suspect you’ve all heard someone say, “I’ll check them out on Facebook first,” when a prospective dating opportunity surfaces.

Given the number of divorce cases that I’ve assisted attorneys with over the past decade, Facebook might also be not only a “dating platform”, but rather a conduit for divorce. With the rise of FOMO (fear of missing out) among dedicated users of social media services, the anxiety of not being able to participate in an upcoming event, might also include the fear of missing out on the next best partner.

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