Jan 26
This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day and it would be a great time to ponder our cyberculture, how much you share online and how well you manage your online reputation. In an increasingly connected world, everything people do online, from emailing, texting, uploading photos, making purchases online, to clicking the “like” and “retweet” buttons on favorite web pages, all contribute to their online reputation. In honor of Data Privacy Day, Microsoft released new data from a survey of 5,000 people whose online behaviors and attitudes vary widely and how their actions impact their overall online profiles and reputations. With respondents from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland and Spain, the research shows that while 91% of people have done something to manage their overall online profile at some point, a smaller percentage, 67%, feel in control of their online reputation, and fewer than half, 44%, actively think about the long-term consequences of their online activities. 14% of people believe they have been negatively impacted by the online activities of others, even unintentionally so. Of those, 21% believed it led to being fired from a job, 16% being refused health care, 16% being turned down for a job, and 15% being turned down for a mortgage.
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing made a great infographic which you can see in full here. Tips to help maintain a positive online reputation can be found here.
“Your online reputation is shaped by your interactions in the online world and spans the disparate and varied data about you, whether created and posted by you or others. This information can have a lasting presence online, and can affect your life in many ways – from maintaining friendships, to helping you keep or land a new job,” said Brendon Lynch, chief privacy officer, Microsoft Corp. “Our research reinforces that people want a range of privacy options. Microsoft is committed to offering meaningful choices and helping to ensure that people have the tools to make informed choices online to better manage their privacy and online reputations.”
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Microsoft Trustworthy Computing made a great infographic which you can see in full here. Tips to help maintain a positive online reputation can be found here.
“Your online reputation is shaped by your interactions in the online world and spans the disparate and varied data about you, whether created and posted by you or others. This information can have a lasting presence online, and can affect your life in many ways – from maintaining friendships, to helping you keep or land a new job,” said Brendon Lynch, chief privacy officer, Microsoft Corp. “Our research reinforces that people want a range of privacy options. Microsoft is committed to offering meaningful choices and helping to ensure that people have the tools to make informed choices online to better manage their privacy and online reputations.”
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