I’ve just published a new article over at The Blogfathers regarding online privacy, photo sharing, and blogging about your kids. Please visit and share your comments. Here’s an excerpt:

I've often considered the important issue of online privacy for myself and my family. I'm not concerned with any of the crazy kidnap/murder/stalking scenarios that the media likes to play up. Just, in general, I think people should be able to control what personal information about them gets onto the internet. I have never posted the real name of anyone in my family. But I wonder if it makes any difference in the long run? A recent development has got me rethinking my strategy. Namely, face recognition in public search engines.

Comments

1. Jasi on 2008-10-25 16:12:23 wrote: I have two identities. One for online shopping, bills, etc (my actual stats). The other for posting, blogging, griping (no real name but a personal pic). I am sure at some juncture there is crossover- one email leading to another as back up, or something like that. If someone really wanted to find us, they could. But I wouldn’t worry too much about stalking. Unless, of course, you’re a bikini-clad, super model, gamer girl, I think you’re safe.