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Online identity management How to protect your online identity. Tina van der Linden Workshop Visibility October 26, 2012 Utrecht University Library. Online identity management. Starting point: informational privacy So: how do you want others to view you?
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Online identity managementHow to protect your online identity Tina van der Linden Workshop Visibility October 26, 2012 Utrecht University Library
Online identity management • Starting point: informational privacy • So: how do you want others to view you? • Build an online identity on the basis of that view • But how to deal with data that do not contribute to that view?
Online identity management • Keep track of what can be found about you on the internet (Google, Google-scholar, wieowie – other suggestions)? Does it match your preferred view? • Search engine optimalisation on keywords you want to be found on • Create alert (Google, wieowie) • Create different identities for different roles (the academic, the musician, the rugby-player, the gamer, the escort ….etc.), and keep them apart if they don’t contribute.
Mindmap copied from http://www.solongmediocrity.com/identity-and-how-it-may-impose-limitations/
Non-contributing data • Someone with the same name? • make clear that you are different persons • Irrelevant personal data: • notice-and-take down request (to author or to platform-provider) • prevent upload by switching off tagging, opting out, etc. • and always ask others to consent if you publish anything about them • push down on the page rank by adding contributing data
Non-contributing data • Malign information • push down on the page rank by adding contributing data • notice-and-take-down request, possibly followed by legal action (libel) • But be aware of the risk you take: adverse effect • wait till it blows over, but monitor archives, cache-copies, etc.
Examples • GeenStijl publication about drunken student, newsitem, decision • Model making love on the beach, newsitem • Politician embarrassed by daughter’s Hyve page, newsitem (in Dutch) • …… any suggestions?