#social-media-privacy

#social-media-privacy

X says that when a post is deleted, it is removed from the user's account, follower timelines, X search results, and its contents, metadata, and analytics are no longer publicly available on X. At the same time, X also says Google and other search engines may keep cached search results until their systems update. That is why the real hiring question is more practical than technical: what was public, who saved it, and where could a copy still exist?

The phone rings at 2:47 AM. Your heart pounds as you fumble for the receiver. "Grandma?" The voice is shaky, desperate. "I'm in trouble. I got arrested. Please don't tell Mom and Dad." The voice sounds just like your grandson. He uses the nickname only family knows. He remembers that trip you took together last summer. Everything about this call feels real because, in many ways, it is.

Cyber security experts are warning we should be on alert for AI scams -- and there's one circulating using the cloned voices of victims' loved ones. Here's how it works. Scammers gather voice samples from videos posted on social media, and in some cases even your own voicemail. They then use AI to replicate how that person sounds. Three seconds of audio is all it takes! Some victims report the voices are identical.

He approached my wife and me and said, We're not into social media. I did not glean from this that he meant we should post nothing at all. To share the good news with my friends, I did post one photo. Late the next night he texted us to take it down, saying, We asked you directly not to do this. I replied, I'm sorry, I didn't understand that I was not to post anything at all.

If a scammer wanted to build a file on you, they'd start by looking for your date of birth, your location and the names of the people closest to you. Many of us save them the trouble. We package all three into our email addresses and scatter them across the internet. I'm far from an IT expert, but as part of my job I regularly interact with patients online, including emails about medications and prescriptions.

I've been Ashley French for so long at home, but I really never changed publicly. Because everyone knows me as Ashley Tisdale. But I just felt like it was time for people to know me for me, and not just a character or a celebrity.

I had a one-night stand with a guy recently, and while it was fun, he seems to think we are now in a relationship or at least will end up in one. He messages me a lot and found my social media and now likes all my posts and stories. I had said to him that I was happy being single and that I was only looking for fun, which he said was cool.

I'll never forget the moment I went viral. I was working at my other part-time job, and my phone started ringing like crazy. I thought a family member had died. I peeked and saw a text from someone saying I'd gone viral on Reddit, and they sent me a link. It was 2012, and I had never heard of Reddit. I wasn't on social media, apart from LinkedIn, so I thought the link was a scam and ignored it.

we have seen a tech titan gut a once-great newspaper in an apparent act of capitulation to the commander in chief, government accounts gleefully spreading hateful memes on X (the far-right platform owned by a billionaire tech oligarch), a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against The New York Times (and quickly dismissed by the judge as "superfluous"), and, of course, the assault on free speech carried out by Trump's Federal Communications Commission chairman.

After a recent gathering for my granddaughter's graduation, I am feeling depressed and upset. Unflattering pictures of me were taken during the event and later posted on social media. I wasn't asked, and I think it was done maliciously by the grandmother on the other side. She posted no candid pictures of herself, only ones that were planned and staged. I don't feel I can ask that they be taken down without causing a rift.