Protect me from... myself!

Secure.me is launching a social privacy monitoring tool which is aimed at letting you know how the information that you put online about yourself is putting your privacy at risk. The service will scan you profile to identify potential risks and then publishes your potential risks, analyses of your photos and activities and scores you on your profile, network and overall privacy. It will attempt to determine the mood of conversations that are going on, to allow you to see if they are getting out of hand. The network analysis looks at your friends to see if there are potentially dangerous things being linked to their pages to ensure they aren't scams. It will also scan your photos and friends photos to identify you when you aren't tagged and tries to discover what might be considered compromising.

As companies like Facebook move to make more and more of what was once private available publicly, it might be a good idea to get a picture of what is out there about you. This might be particularly when services are being used by HR departments to vet candidates for jobs like reppify and identified do. It's also not surprising that this company is coming out of Europe where privacy rights are still held in much higher regard than they are here. As more and more of the privacy rights in this country are challenged, companies like these are likely to spring up to protect their customers.


http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/secure-me/