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The Importance of Security During Digital Marketing Campaigns

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These days, it’s imperative that you get your digital marketing right. More people have access to your digital advertising via places like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram than ever before. When you do a significant marketing push, there’s a good chance that a lot of it will be digital, and a lot of it will be on these social platforms. 

Between you putting your information out on the net and other people potentially answering your ads by inputting their information through digital means, online security has never been more critical.

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Google’s Nest Acquisition: How Will Your Privacy Be Affected by the Internet of Things?

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In the era of tech giants, privacy has almost become a luxury. This is because people are virtually connected to their computers or the Internet at all times. This has made social theorists quite concerned about the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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IoT Defined

The Internet of Things is a term coined by Kevin Ashton during a 1999 supply-chain management presentation at Proctor & Gamble. For Ashton, IoT meant that the benefit of computers and the Internet can only come from the documentation of actions. Everything a person writes, clicks, downloads, consumes, uses, searches, and views on the Internet becomes not only a data profile on that person’s behavior, but data that constitutes the space of the Internet. The goal then is to document this data more and more fully, in the hope to be able to obtain a complete picture and scope for businesses to increase their efficiency and effectiveness toward consumers.[Read More]

Protecting Your Privacy: 5 Tips to Securing Your Privacy

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In most countries in the world, including the United States, privacy is generally not a legally protected right. The incidences when an invasion of privacy goes punished are usually when it is in conjunction with another crime, such as breaking and entering or theft. As a result, there are constant risks coming from every angle and an army of different people and corporations who are looking to invade your personal privacy, both physically and online. And since it is both hard to catch and hard to prosecute, it is largely up to us to protect our own privacy. Here are five ways in which you can help secure your privacy every day.[Read More]

Erased, Discarded Mobile Phones Still Pose Security Risk

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Erased, Discarded Mobile Phones Still Pose Security Risk (via slashdot)

Smartphones and other mobile devices used in the workplace can pose a security threat that remains even when the device itself is no longer in use. Forensic examination of 32 mobile phones issued to employees by a Fortune 500 company (and eventually…

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