Anna Cairo is the founder and Director of Anna Cairo Consulting, a boutique communications consultancy with its core focus on the disruptive social media and communication space. She has a passion for educating businesses, executives and leaders about the fragmentation of communication and its impacts on business as well as social media its risks and opportunities in the workplace.
It seems that job seekers are being asked for their Facebook passwords as part of the interview process. Read more here. In their efforts to scrutinise candidates, some companies and government agencies are going beyond the glance of a Facebook page and asking for passwords so that employers can log in while the interview is […]
This is an interesting question and one I ask because in the Melbourne Age this morning, there was an article about how your employer could possibly claim ownership of some of your contacts on the LinkedIn platform. In Britain an employee was sacked after he made negative comments about his employer on the social media […]
A recent Fair Work Australia decision shows that all businesses must have a social media policy. In the decision involving a Linfox employee, the Fair Work Australia Commissioner said that it was “not sufficient” for Linfox not to have a social media policy in this current digital age. Read more about the decision: “Not good […]
There has been a lot in the news lately about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which is an anti piracy bill put before the USA House of Representative. The Senate equivalent is Pipa (Protect Intellectual Property Act). Read more about it in this article: Q &A: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). What seemed assured […]
I’m back after the summer break and hoping to bring you some interesting thoughts this year on the current issues of the Internet, starting with Internet tracking. It seems that Internet users are becoming savvier about covering their tracks while online. It is common place for users to be tracked anonymously as they visit websites. […]
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Christmas & New Year. I’ll be back writing blogs in the New Year!
Here are two articles you might enjoy reading if you are interested in the online environment! Why Online Anonymity is an Illusion and Court says ISPs can’t be Forced to Monitor Illegal Downloads These articles provide many discussion points: whether anonymity online should be allowed and how it is problematic for defamation, and whether ISPs […]
There was a great article in yesterday’s The Age, Facial Recognition: The Case for and against ‘Total Surveillance’. Facial recognition technology is about to become the most significant technology that we have seen for a long time. It is state of the art in terms of recognising and identifying people and this will be particularly […]
Privacy means different things to different people. When it comes to modern technologies, this impacts on our privacy. GPS navigation, smart cards, electronic transport tolls all have some elements which affect our privacy. In the online environment it is even more complex particularly when it comes to personal information, which is only one aspect of […]
You have probably noticed that the amount of electronic junk mail (spam) that you receive is increasing. Although the unsolicited (and unwanted) bulk messages are usually recognised in the form of email spam, it can be applied to other digital media: spam in blogs, instant messaging, mobile phone messaging to name a few. Because sending […]
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