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Lee Chisholm

New town? New house/flat needed? So cheap!

Students (or anyone) moving to a new city after New Year?
Now is the time that many people are looking for rental accommodation to take up for 2012 whether it be for studying at Uni or other reasons.  We have noticed a spate of rental accommodation scams lately where a real bargain [...]

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Privacy: a 19th century concept that’s dying out?

The concept of privacy as a natural right to “be left alone” is a western one that’s evolved in tandem with technological developments. But in the 21st century is, as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg has suggested, ‘the age of privacy’ really over?

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Does my iPhone make me a US government spy?

Smartphone security and privacy concerns have gone mainstream with news that the iPhone logs your location and reports back to Apple. What can this data be used for, who has access to it and should you care?

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Safer Internet Day 2011 – “Internet, it’s more than a game, it’s your life!”

Safer Internet Day 2011 gives us the opportunity to discuss effective videos on the topics of safe internet use, parental responsibility and how to tackle cyber bullying

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Online privacy and the rise of crime stats data mapping

Google Map mashups are great for showing patterns of information. But should individuals be worried about a loss of privacy when it comes to publishing government data – like crime reports – on the internet?

NetSafeTV

NetSafeTV: 16 – 22 May – Google mapping routers; reputation management in the future and the end of P2P?

This week Martin looks at the reaction to Google mapping UK wireless routers; Lee discusses good virtual neighbours in Christchurch and Sean suggests the US Limewire court case marks the beginning of the end for peer to peer file sharing

NetSafeTV

NetSafeTV: 2 – 8 May – NZ Privacy Awareness Week and more

Watch our first weekly video wrap-up of cybesafety themed news and events

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Privacy, schmivacy – Google knows all about me already

NetSafe adopts smart phones and cloud based computing – it’s been a fraught week with plenty of change!

Chris Hails (NetSafe)

Would you get naked to get onboard?

Technological advances have made the see-through airport scanner reality – would you be happy ‘exposing yourself’ for a faster start to your holiday?

Lee Chisholm

Facebook Security and Privacy

A recent US study has found that 45% of employers research social networking sites for information on prospective employees. Of them, 35% have rejected applicants based on content on a person’s sn page. For those who are concerned about the amount of information available an interesting article to read (and one which gives detailed information [...]