Understanding Sopa with Black Humor

Thanks to TheOatmeal.com I have been so busy trying to get a few things out of the way  did not set up my site to black out today. Previously we had shared and avatar photoshop kit (Censored and Stop SOPA MOTHA Foka) so you could support the Anti-Sopa & Anti-Pipa movement. We also included an brief [...]

Stop SOPA Motha Foca Avatar Kit

I guess the best way I can exercise not being Censored yet is with the Avatar created above with a concept suggested by @lucymfel and designed by @ricklipsett. In spanish “Foca” means seal so for those of you stressing out because you thought you saw a bad word just read it in spanglish. There is [...]

Get your SOPA Censored Avatar Kit!

Update: Jan 16 8:45pm est – Official White House has response can be found at the end of this post.  (thanks to @margieclayman for pointing me to the post) The white house in general responded that they will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global [...]

To say or not to say by @ricklipsett

Guest post from extraordinary creator of art, writer, and great human being my friend @ricklipsett. This is  post 7 on the Online Privacy Please! series I am publishing to share thoughts on issues of online privacy. Tonight I’m gonna teach you not to mess with me. I’d love to see your face when you go lookin’ for [...]

Facebook Security by @tommyismyname

Guest post by @tommyismyname. This is post 6 on the Online Privacy Please! series I am writing to share my thoughts on issues of online privacy written by a good online friend @tommyismyname. Personal security online has been boiled down to one of two vague threats: either someday your future employer will find that embarrassing photo from [...]

Deleting or not deleting Your Online Presence that is the question?

This is post 5 on the Online Privacy Please! series I am writing to share my thoughts on issues of online privacy! I have heard countless stories on how people had to close their twitter and facebook accounts because they had an uncomfortable situation where the main issue was privacy. If we look closer at the [...]

Are Organizations Protecting Your Privacy

This is the 4th post of the Online Privacy Please! series in order to share my thoughts with you on issues of online privacy. One of my biggest concerns while working in the Information Risk Management, IT Security, and IT Governance industry  is how most organizations deal with your data. Most organizations fail greatly at protecting [...]

Love Everyone, Trust No One, and there are always exceptions to the Rule.

This is post 3 of the Online Privacy Please! series I am writing to share with you my thoughts on issues related to online privacy! Most of us don’t have the opportunity like I did to go around various organizations and monitor what they do with there systems and data. Being part of KPMG’s Information Risk [...]

TMI (Too Much Information) Being Shared in Social Media

This is post 2 on the Online Privacy Please! series I am writing to share with you my thoughts on issues of online privacy! On many occasions I see TMI (Too Much Information) being shared in Social Media without people understanding the repercussions it could have by having vast data shared everywhere as part of [...]

Online Privacy Please!

While reading Curation Nation(Amazon Affiliate Link) I read where Steven ( on twitter @magnify) quotes @LAURENGELMAN the executive director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society warning us “the current state of privacy is “binary”; either you share or you don’t” There’s no way to define that the information you put out in the world [...]