#managing personal information online

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What is GDPR and how will it affect you?

This is the first in our series of blog posts about the upcoming Europe-wide GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), where we’ll be looking at everything businesses need to know, and do about it. By now most, if not all, businesses will have heard of GDPR. It’s been on the horizon for some time, but the […]

27 March 2018 · Igniyte

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7 steps to take now to protect your Facebook data

The debate about how information on Facebook is shared, and who it’s shared with, has kicked off again. Allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica has misused the data of 50 million Facebook users have reopened the debate. Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have used one of these Facebook quizzes – This Is Your Digital life […]

23 March 2018 · Roz Sheldon

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A Guide to Managing Your Personal Information Online

Personal reputation management – a guide The Internet started its life as an open research tool, and therefore privacy of information was less important than the need for information to be readily available and searchable. Whilst in the early days the content was predominantly text, today, images and video are shown in search results. A […]

14 December 2014 · igniyte

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The Increasing Importance of Google+ Authorship

Anonymity is currently a huge issue, with anyone being able to post anything about anyone, so Google’s focus on Google+ Authorship is welcome and will hopefully lessen the extent that anonymous, false or scam content can receive a high ranking for an individual’s name.

29 April 2014 · Igniyte