Online Privacy and Reputation Management for Parents
September 14, 2009
This Tuesday at 5:00 PM on liveamerica.com Shellee Hale will be teaching a class to help parents learn the tools to manage their kids online privacy and reputation. You can sign up free for the class here at www.liveamerica.com
Learn about the newest technology available to help Parents manage and monitor their kid’s online reputation.
This class will give you all the latest and greatest tools available for free and those for purchase that can help you in making sure your kids and family are safe from online predators looking to use comments they are posting to cause you and your family harm.
Also, you will understand and receive information that can help you communicate the real dangers of social networking with your kids.
I will show you how colleges and employers receive online digital profiles for applicants and how these reports could affect your child’s future.
You will get all the tools you need to help protect your kids from cyber bullies who may be using your kids name, information or have hacked into their current profiles unsuspectingly to cause them embarrassment and harm.
See the current digital footprint on your kids with the tools you learn in this class and take charge before it is too late.
FTC taking on social marketing deceptive practices
June 11, 2009
The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) is looking at proposed changes to deceptive marketing practices in social marketing. At issue are additions and modifications now under consideration in the FTC’s, “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials.” Final ruling on the Guides is expected sometime later this summer or early fall. Behind the proposed changes is the 10 Commandments of commercial marketing as found in Section 5 of the FTC Act which discusses false or deceptive practice. A blogger, citizen journalist, activist, third party social marketor or spokesperson’s failure to disclose a fact or event that could alter the consumer’s decision regarding a product or service terms could be found liable if promoting or despariging a product or service.
Camandago provides internet reputation reports to individuals and companies by specialized search techniques and examinations to uncover such acts and the individuals behind them on the internet forums, blogs, social networking sites etc. You can use our contact form or call us directly toll free at 1-877-450-9009 to receive a quote.
Babysitter kidnaps 5mo old baby – Don’t let this happen to you!
June 9, 2009
Today a story hit the news wires http://www.bnd.com/372/story/800143.html that a babysitter is suspected of kidnapping a 5 mo. old baby. Over the last year babysitters have accounted for several problems from theft, harming, death and more than one kidnapping of children they were put in trust to take care of.
The suspect above had a rap sheet which easily could have been disclosed with a basic nationwide criminal background check. Avoid taking chances with your precious children and hire Camandago to do a full background check on any person you hire to babysit your children – don’t solely trust another’s recommendation – criminals and cons are really good at pretexting their perfectness to suspected victims.
Contact us at 1-877-450-9009 for a quote and don’t risk being tomorrow’s front page news.
MySpace fingers 90,000 sex offenders
February 6, 2009
Have they gone to Facebook?
By John Oates • Get more from this author
Posted in Law, 4th February 2009 11:06 GMT
Whitepaper: Rethink Virtualization in Business Terms
MySpace has admitted it has found, and removed, about 90,000 registered sex offenders on the social networking site in the last two years.
The Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal hit MySpace with a subpoena demanding the information.
Blumenthal said the number of profiles refuted the final US Internet Safety Technical Task Force report which found adult sexual harrassment of children was a minor problem. He said the figure was appalling and: “For every one of them, there may be hundreds of others using false names and ages. These convicted registered sex offenders creating profiles under their own names unmasks MySpace’s monstrously inadequate counter-measures.”
MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media, claimed in January that it was automatically deleting profiles from sex offenders and was monitoring all content more closely. Richard Blumenthal was behind moves in 2007 to force MySpace to admit the scale of the problem – it said then it had “detected and deleted” 27,000 paedophile profiles.
Blumenthal said: “My office will immediately seek to identify any and all Connecticut offenders with MySpace profiles and inform appropriate state authorities so they can determine whether terms of probation or release were violated, as has been done previously.” He urged other states to take similar action.
Blumenthal said he was still waiting for a response to a similar subpoena sent to Facebook.
Facebook said:
We have been working proactively with states’ attorneys general to run their lists of registered sex offenders against our user base. Our team uses various internal tools to automatically find matches. Any potential matches are evaluated more fully by our internal team of investigation professionals. If we find that someone on a sex offender registry is a likely match to a user on Facebook, we notify law enforcement and disable the account.In some cases, law enforcement has asked us to leave the accounts active so that they may investigate the user further. We have worked proactively to establish a publicly available national database available to everyone of registered sex offenders that enables real-time checks and includes important unique information like email addresses and IM handles.
Blumenthal’s press release is here.
