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BRIEF: Mind your online privacy with these toolsMay 23, 2010 (Detroit Free Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Do you know what your online profile says about you? Do you know what's private and what's not? Here are some resources to help: Reputationdefender.com: For $14.95 a month, you can use MyReputation, a service that will aggregate all online references to make you "totally aware of your online presence." The site also has software that will monitor your personal information (My Privacy, $9.95 a month); a service that monitors your child's online activity ($14.95 a month), and a service that attempts to control search results in your name ($99). Brand-yourself.com: This site has a free Google Grade tool that tells you if the top 10 search results for your name are representing you well or not. It also has services that allow you to monitor what others are saying about you online. Profilewatch.org: Tells you your online privacy score based on how much information it can find from your Facebook profile. It includes what you have publicly shared on Facebook. Youropenbook.org: Want to see what Facebook is making public? This site takes content from Facebook that includes the phrase "don't tell anyone" or "cheated test" and publishes it for all to see. It's a statement that shows that what you think is private isn't really so. To see more of the Detroit Free Press, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.freep.com Copyright (c) 2010, Detroit Free Press Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. |