Here is some great news from the Inside Logger team: Inside Logger has teamed up with TrialPay. Now almost everyone knows, I guess, about the TrialPay system. The obvious advantage is that you can obtain a product you want for free if you choose one of the other hundreds of offers that TrialPay searches for you.
Well, they will not take to it kindly, that’s for sure. But they will only take it as unkindly as they take you asking them about school, where they’re going, imposing curfews, asking them about their date, or telling them when to turn off the computer and go to bed. Using key logging software is not very different from this. It follows with the idea of knowing where your kids are going, who their friends are, and if they’re indulging in something that could get them into trouble. However, it does get a little different in the sense that instead of simply asking them about whom they are talking to or where they’re going – you actually tap the phone lines or follow them around. This might hit you a little hard, but that’s how it is.
If you’ve always been keeping up-to-date with the latest on the Internet, you’ve probably heard of the little blooper FaceBook created for itself and then tried to set right. FaceBook, the social networking site which everyone seems to be addicted to, removed a clause from it’s user agreement which said user’s could remove content they posted any time they wished. Further, it added new language which said that FaceBook would retain account information once an account was deleted. For those of us who believed that we are in full control of our profiles on the Internet, the bubble had burst. However, users of FaceBook enraged at this change formed groups, forums and FaceBook, bowing to the pressure, revised its terms and conditions again.
Although in this case, many users will heave a sigh of relief, are we really sure of how safe we are and what is in our control on a social networking site? When FaceBook made the changes, or rather, “updated†its terms and conditions, it sent all its users a message to that effect. Now we all know how legal jargon can sound mind-numbingly confusing and boring. Therefore it was not until Consumerist, a blog of the Consumer Union interpreted exactly what these changes implied that users knew exactly what was happening. However, in the absence of such a blog post coming to our rescue, how many of us really read the Terms & Conditions of all the sites we sign up for? And how much privacy do we expect in on a social networking site where we voluntarily put up so much information about ourselves?
Many parents are now considering the option of installing content-controlling software. With the help of this software you can now decide what kind of control will become available to your kids when they are browsing on the Internet. In fact, your kids are already familiar with it – it is used on their school computers, libraries and many other public computers. Most of this software are available free and often come under other names such as content filtering software, internet filter and the controversial, censor ware.
For most office-goers, their work PC becomes pretty much their PC. However, it would be quite troublesome to live with this delusion as your office computer is pretty much a shared computer. But more importantly, it is your employer’s computer – and whether you want to hear this or not, employers are pretty possessive about their computers. Most employers want to make sure that their employees are being productive and to this end they will monitor everything that you do on your computer, including the mail you send or receive, the calls you make, the sites you browse – absolutely everything that you do on your PC. Is this legal? Well, let’s say it isn’t illegal. Employers can, and they do. So here’s where you need to be careful.
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