Instagram Selling Your Photos & Other Risks of Posting Online

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Dec 18, 2012

The online world is abuzz with news of the photo sharing service Instagram (recently acquired by Facebook) which has changed its terms of service to allow for the possible sale of people’s photos — without the photographer making a penny.  This is just the latest example of a problem I’ve been trying to educate people about for years now: who owns your information when you post it online?

I’ve just posted this audio lesson which you can listen to and learn more about this problem, which affects everyone who posts anything online such as photos, Facebook or Twitter posts, etc., as well as potentially people who store information online in online “cloud” storage, and the many people who use web-based email services such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and so on.

I recorded this audio lesson a couple of years ago, and I’ve talked about the problem in recorded lessons as well as here on my newsletter, and it seems like finally people out there are starting to wake up to this.

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 Instagram Selling Your Photos & Other Risks of Posting Online
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Answering Computer Question: How Safe Is It to Use the Cloud?

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Jul 12, 2012

In my last post I gave you a non-technical explanation of what the cloud is.  I had a student named Ronald write to ask me about whether it was a good idea to use cloud services. He said: ...


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A Non-Technical Explanation of The Cloud and Apple’s iCloud

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Jul 10, 2012

I’ve had a lot of people ask me to explain what “the Cloud” is, and whether it’s the same as Apple’s iCloud service. They also wanted to get a better understanding of what iCloud does, and why they’d want to use it. ...


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Is Your Computer at Risk from Tojans?

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Apr 14, 2012

I’ve mentioned the threat of computer “trojans” before (here’s a link to a video lesson I recorded last year about protecting yourself from a common type of trojan). There’s a new type of trojan circulating now that I thought I’d take the opportunity to teach you about today.

Briefly, a trojan is a maliciously written program designed to infect computers. It is sort of similar to a computer virus, but worms generally try to trick you into installing them by making you think they’re something you want or need to install. Check out the video in the link to learn more about how they work and how to stay safe from them.

This particular threat I’m writing about is a new type in the sense that it is new to the Mac world, but it’s a type of threat that has existed for many many years on the Windows side of things. ...


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 Is Your Computer at Risk from Tojans?
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Answering Question About Lost Router Password

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Mar 11, 2012

I received an email with a question from a computer training student named Mary Anne Robbins who wrote: ...


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Answering Garageband Question

Posted by Worth Godwin Computer Training on Mar 11, 2012

A student named Gerald Smith wrote me with a question about the Apple Mac program Garageband.  He wrote: ...


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