The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

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You are likely to make most personal security mistakes in social media on the day you first join a site. After all, it’s exciting to sign-up and you are looking forward to connecting to old friends, loved ones or new found contacts. Social media sites want to collect as much information about you as they can – they might use this for marketing purposes and your data is often their main asset. They will encourage you to complete your profile, providing all manner of personal data. You should only provide the bare minimum of data required to obtain service. Why would you provide more?

Sanity Check Number Ten:

Do you only enter the minimum profile information required to get an account?

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Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012