Robert Siciliano is a NextAdvisor.com Expert Guest Blogger
Since the beginning presidential campaign, Palin used Twitter and Facebook to communicate with the public. Impostors have taken every opportunity to raise his character even hacking into his personal email account.
Now, hackers and imposters ring in the resignation of Sarah Palin. The Twitter profile for ExGovSarahPalin snags and reuses graphics, photos and tweets acount "Verified" Twitter Sarah Palin, AKGovSarahPalin. This fake Palin account is still live as of this writing. In a tweet, a Palin impersonator invited followers to his house for a barbecue. His security staff read these tweets and quickly dispatched it to his home security personnel to intercept unwanted visitors.
Twitter has a "policy of parody impersonation" that allows identity theft, as the parody is clear to readers. It is confusing to me that they would allow this, especially in the case of Sarah Palin fake account, which is plastered with the effigy of the governor.
social media are not prepared for this type of use. and Twitter should rethink its policies.
Meanwhile, USA Today reports that the St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, who was also the victim of identity theft social media and Twitter sued, claiming damages resulting from " cybersquatting "and misappropriation of his name, has now dropped his lawsuit. one report mentions a court settlement that compensates LaRussa for his legal expenses and includes a donation to his favorite charity. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone blogged a denial of such a regulation.
Financial identity theft is impossible to prevent 100% of the time, and therefore identity theft social media. However, there are ways to lock your name and protect you, or at least to mitigate the potential damage to your name and your reputation.
These tips are repeated:
- Enter your full name and your spouse and children on social media sites, blogs, the most trafficked areas or web-based email accounts. If your name is already gone, include your middle initial, a period or a hyphen. It is for you to decide whether or not to connect your picture and basic bio, but consider leaving your age or birthday.
- Set up a free Google Alerts for your name and get an email whenever your name appears online.
- Set up a free account StepRep your name. StepRep is an online reputation manager that does a better job than Google Alerts is to go get your name on the web.
- Consider dropping $ 65 on Knowem.com. This is an online portal that comes and saves your name to what they see as the top social media sites 120. Their top 120 is debatable, but a good start. The user experience with KnowEm is relatively painless. There is more work involved in setting up and things with a little 120. And no matter what you do, you will still find it difficult to complete registration with all 120 sites. Some of the social media sites are just not pleasant. This can save you a lot of time, but is only part of the resolution of the identity theft problem of social media.
- Start doing things online to boost your online reputation. Blogging is the best. You want Google to bring your given name at the top of the search in its best light, so that when someone is looking for you, they see good things. This is an online reputation management combination and optimization of search engines for your brand :. YOU
- If you ever come across someone using your image in social media, be very persistent in contacting the site administrators. They too reputation for managing and if they see someone using your photo or image that they would be smart to delete the stolen profile.
- Or do nothing and do not worry about it. But when another John Doe does something stupid or uses your name in a derogatory manner or identity theft, and people assume it's you, remember that I told you.
- Despite all the work that you can do to protect yourself, you still need protection against identity theft and Internet security software.
Robert Siciliano, identity theft speaker, discusses scams.
Robert Siciliano is CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, an expert on identity theft, professional speaker, security analyst, published author and television news correspondent. Siciliano works with Fortune 1000 and start-up companies as a consultant on product launches, branding, messaging, representation, SEO and media. the thoughts and advice of Siciliano on all these issues often appear in both television and print media news, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, Forbes and USA Today. He has 25 years of safety training as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He is the author of two books, including The Safety Minute: Living on high alert; How to take control of your personal safety and to prevent fraud . He also established a partnership with Uni-Ball to help raise awareness of the growing threat of identity theft and provide tips on how you can protect yourself.