[Fredslist] What are you telling your Family, Friends and Staff about Social Media, SMS, Tweets and Facebook messaging?

[Raj Goel, CISSP]

The 1st rule of social media and digital communications really should 
be
"Little Brother is watching...and he's a snitch"
While  George Orwell trained us to distrust government (aka Big 
Brother), his crystal ball didn't foresee all the little brothers that 
would take your  money AND betray you for their own profitability.

After the UK riots, Blackberry maker RIM made the BBMs stored on RIM's 
servers available to the UK police.

Add  this to all the cases where Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc have 
buckled under National Security Letters and other arm-twisting and all 
of a sudden, 1984 reads like an UTOPIAN fantasy.

Read more here...http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/09/bbm_riots/



MS says EU data open to Patriot Act 
seizures...http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/04/eu_customer_cloud_data_may_be_handed_over_by_microsoft/



If  you're concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then 
you must be doing something you shouldn't be doing. At least that's 
the word  from Google CEO Eric 
Schmidt....http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/



Aug 23, 2011 - facebook & Twitter are also meeting with the UK 
government - 
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/22/confirmed-twitter-will-meet-with-the-uk-government-for-riot-talks/



So, my compliance-oriented readers, what is YOUR social media, BBM, 
SMS, EMAIL communications policy?



--Raj

Rajesh Goel, CISSP
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