“Privacy 2.0 – Cleaning up the mess Web 2.0 left behind”

What is Privacy 2.0 you might ask? I’d like to start the explanation with a bit of background. Two years ago I founded a startup social network that was a mashup of Facebook, Myspace, Meetup and Yelp. Continue Reading

There are many things you can do to protect your email outside of having a strong password and good anti-spam service. The people at techrepublic.com have come up with a list of 5 measures you can take to make your e-email experience a bit more comfortable.
Many times it is not the bad guy that breaks his way in. Sometimes we just forget to do the simple things like replying to the whole mailing list instead of the one desired recipient that trumps even the strongest security measures. We have to remember that no matter how enhanced our software is and no matter how complex our encryptions are, in the end it is us, the end-users, that control the information we send out to the world.

Its been a month since I started Arzoola blog, and boy have I become an addict. My main reason for starting to write opinions, discoveries, pointers and reviews was for my own benefit, to keep an online journal or sorts of my discoveries in the world of privacy and Web 2.0

I started Arzoola as a company with a unique and valuable service that assists consumers with protecting their privacy while traversing the Web 2.0 sphere. Naturally, I sought out all the information I could find as it related to privacy and Web 2.0. The result of that search was a rude awakening. Come to find out, there is very little chatter out there in regards to protecting user data in the social web.

Sure there are plenty of privacy bloggers, conspiracy theorists, and of course, organizations such as EFF and the like, but when it comes to tangibly talking about how to protect your privacy and identity on the social web, the answer for the most part has been, your on your own pal.

So without ever thinking of becoming an independent online publisher of sorts, I quickly took on the role of filling that gap and giving people information about what they sometimes don’t even know they need…yet.

Borrowing the overused “2.0” term that’s been beaten to death, I self described this new concept as:
“Privacy 2.0” Cleaning up the privacy mess Web 2.0 left behind.
Sure others have used this term in a general sense, but this is my interpretation of what Privacy 2.0 should stand for.

I’m blogging here for a very simple reason, to be close to my target audience, people like you who are already communicators and users of new media, who seek out information about Privacy 2.0. It’s not really about getting more authority or credibility, not about promoting something specific or having something to sell, those are all consequences of my blogging and encountering new services and trends.

You, my readers, would see right through me if I lost my objectivity, that’s what’s great about this forum, feedback is near instantaneous. My pledge to you is to look for Privacy 2.0 material wherever it lies and deliver it to you via this blog. According to my feed stats, subscriptions to this blog are trending up so I know you guys are out there reading this stuff, and it gives me all the more motivation to get better faster and deliver news about this topic (soon to become an industry) in a quickly consumable way.

I would like this blog to spark dialogue and conversation. Those of you who are reading this right now, it is very important to me to hear from you. I would like to get feedback via any means (comment, Email…) let me know how I’m doing, tell me what you would like me to cover, or simply drop a line and say hi.

Privacy nuts, this is just the beginning!

Find out if you’re privacy and identity has been breached. Get the report here.

As reported by the AP, republican VP candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Mailbox has been hacked.
Read the full story here

What troubles me the most about this story is the following quote:

It wasn’t immediately clear how hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo! account, but it would have been possible to trick the service into revealing her password knowing personal details about Palin that include her birthdate and ZIP code. A hacker also might have sent a forged e-mail to her account tricking her into revealing her own password

Just another example of why the world needs Privacy 2.0 apps…today! If your a public figure in this Web 2.0 age, it seems your even more susceptible to privacy invasion since collecting your personal data is easier than ever. What if Gov. Palin had a service that she could use to mask her identity?, where Yahoo didnt have to use her birthdate or zip code to identify her. Privacy 2.0