My Digital FootPrint

Personal Raises $7M From Steve Case And Others To Help Consumers Protect Their Digital Data Under the radar startup Personal has just announced a round of funding from a group of impressive backers. Personal has raised $7.6 million in a Series A round of investment from Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC with participation from Allen & Company and Eric Semler of TCS Capital Management (although this SEC filing indicates the startup raised $7.3 million) Founded by the same management team that built business mapping application The Map Network (which was acquired by NAVTEQ in 2006), Personal aims to give consumers control over their digital data. Details are still sparse on how Personal does this, but the company says that it helps users prevent companies tracking, compiling and selling digital information without the consumer’s consent. In particular, Personal highlights the invasiveness of online tracking as a problem in the consumers web. Shane Green, p

Personal Raises $7M From Steve Case And Others To Help Consumers Protect Their Digital Data Under the radar startup Personal has just announced a round of funding from a group of impressive backers. Personal has raised $7.6 million in a Series A round of investment from Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC with participation from Allen & Company and Eric Semler of TCS Capital Management (although this SEC filing indicates the startup raised $7.3 million) Founded by the same management team that built business mapping application The Map Network (which was acquired by NAVTEQ in 2006), Personal aims to give consumers control over their digital data. Details are still sparse on how Personal does this, but the company says that it helps users prevent companies tracking, compiling and selling digital information without the consumer’s consent. In particular, Personal highlights the invasiveness of online tracking as a problem in the consumers web. Shane Green, p

Personal Raises $7M From Steve Case And Others To Help Consumers Protect Their Digital Data Under the radar startup Personal has just announced a round of funding from a group of impressive backers. Personal has raised $7.6 million in a Series A round of investment from Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC with participation from Allen & Company and Eric Semler of TCS Capital Management (although this SEC filing indicates the startup raised $7.3 million) Founded by the same management team that built business mapping application The Map Network (which was acquired by NAVTEQ in 2006), Personal aims to give consumers control over their digital data. Details are still sparse on how Personal does this, but the company says that it helps users prevent companies tracking, compiling and selling digital information without the consumer’s consent. In particular, Personal highlights the invasiveness of online tracking as a problem in the consumers web. Shane Green, p

Original BBC story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11945774 MET REQUESTS TO TfL 2007 - 4,939; denied 747 2008 - 6,074; denied 1,279 2009 - 5,619, denied 918 2010 - 6,576, denied 810 The Met Police has made record requests for data on London commuters, a majority of whom use Oyster smartcards, the Green Party has said. Transport for London (TfL) figures show the Met made 6,576 requests in 2010, but it was turned down 810 times. Noel Lynch, chairman of London Green Party, called for "rigorous safeguards to protect people's privacy". The Met said the rise in requests was due to the rise in Oyster usage as the data helps trace a person's movement. Figures obtained by the Green Party from TfL show that in 2007 the Met made 4,939 requests, but 747 of those requests were turned down. The number of requests rose to 6,074 in 2008, of which 1,279 were turned down. In 2009 police requests fell to 5,619 in 2009, but the Met were denied information on 91

It might surprise you to hear that according to the FBI, 90 percent of all crimes committed leave a digital footprint, a clue that often helps prove a suspect's innocence or guilt.

The case in question is a woman who was made redundant and was offered a large compensation package.  As usual the offer included a non-disclosure clause (family is ok, public is not, advise from friends who are discrete probably acceptable).  Therefore would it be acceptable to post on twitter and Facebook as these are closed (not public) networks.  However if someone enable the information to spread outside your network it therefore becomes public. Therefore are we moving from private to public as being defined as when someone retweets your tweet!

https://www.abine.com/deleteme/ Tell them what you want removed... then their experts get to work.  DeleteMe is a service that can help you delete accounts, search results, and other things you don't want online. Just tell us what you want removed and we'll get started... However, great if you know there is only one original source, not so good if copied, cut and pasted, retweeted or mirrored.  Why could Wikileaks not be shut down?  You can close off one source, but for data and information that is of public interest (may not be in the public interest) it is easily spread and cannot be deleted.