Discussion: Privacy and Identity on the Internet

AIM: Brief discussion to highlight and question what individuals feel comfortable/uncomfortable about revealing on their blog. Points for discussion:

• Photographs of family and friends
• Naming family and friends particularly children
• Full name - are you a consultant? a hobbyist?
  
• Email address - spam protection use (at)
  
• Location - if you go on holidays are you in the white pages?
• Hi, my name is XYZ and I am going on holidays on Saturday and I live at Flat 123, xyz road, suburb and my children are 6 and 7 and they go to this school and ...
  
• birthdates and mother's maiden name
  

What would you never reveal about yourself? What is very important, semi-important and not important at all? How does identity theft occur?

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