Your Digital Footprint

See who visits your Facebook page

Manual Method To Check Who Visited My Facebook

Open Your FB timeline and copy URL – facebook.com/abc.
Right click on your browser and click “View page Source”.
You will get redirected to a new page with lots of HTML/CSS/Javascripts codes.
Hold CTRL+F (or Command+F on Mac) on your keyboard, a text box appears at the right corner, in that box, type- “InitialChatFriendsList” (Don’t include Quotes)
Next to that, you’ll see a list of numbers, these are actually profile IDs’s of people or your friends who visit your FB timeline.
Just go to “facebook.com” and paste the ID number beside it with a “\” . For example, if the ID is abcd, you have to put it as- facebook.com/abcd.
The first ID shows the one who visits profile more often while the last ID never visits your profile

FOR SALE: Your internet browsing history

President Donald Trump signed legislation 4/3/2017 killing privacy rules that would have required internet service providers, broadband and other telecommunications services to get your explicit consent before they share or sell your web browsing history and other sensitive information.

The rules were approved in the final months of President Barack Obama’s administration but hadn’t taken effect yet. Under the bill Trump signed they never will – and the FCC isn’t allowed to try to pass new rules.

The FCC regulates ISPs and the FTC regulates services such as Facebook, Uber and Google.

Which VUI devices do you use?

VUI (voice user interface) is a device that on command using human voice to communicate. Another word for this is intelligent voice agent or voice assistance.

Technology has increased the confidence factor in understanding the intent of the request from the speaker. Programs have been built to weed out the ‘ums and hums’ from the dictation. Eliminating the unnecessary words from the speaker. allowing people to speak naturally in a comfortable conversation of setting with technology.

Like any other data, there is a security factor to be aware of. The devices are always on and listening which can allow for hackers to listen in. Also data is passing thru the servers the input and output from questions asked and information given. The device is active when a wake word is used. (For example, Alexa is mostly used as the wake word for the Echo device.)

You can reference the criminal case with evidence from Amazon echo.

To date Amazon has not released any access of anyone’s echo to the government. Amazon currently reports it only stores the data access by its cloud-based storage system. However in theory a government agency could request to listen in even before you use the wake work. A warrant is necessary by a federal judge to access this information, same as phone records and email. Although the Net Neutrality laws will give permission for providers to sell access history, making it accessible in aggregate information.

Location, location, location – it’s tracked as your data footprint

Did you know there are multiple features and apps on your smart phone that track your location data? This information to personalize your experience. In some instances you are capable of disabling this feature, and sometimes you don’t it’s just there.

This feature that stirred up a lot of commotion among tech fans who are concerned with privacy.

Apple says this data is well protected though, and it’s actually quite useful if you’re comfortable with it.

Want to see the places you visit most often – they are captured on your iPhone?

Go to Settings >
Privacy >
Location Services >
System Services >
Frequent Locations

You’ll see everywhere you’ve been recently. You can easily disable the feature if it makes you uncomfortable.

Other apps that use your location data: camera apps (location is embedded in the metadata), web browsers, maps, weather alerts, Facebook, Tinder. Programs can use a function called geo-location to help identify when you are close to their facility, they will use this data to send messaging (to you or an employee). One day, in the near future, we will have “instant check-in”, once your phone crosses the threshold, the system will be notified that you have arrived.

Why does a company have trouble identifying my two accounts?

By no means is this an excuse, it is only an explanation. As we advance the digital age, companies with legacy systems may have a difficult time recognizing you are the owner of two different accounts. The company had two individual systems that they ‘merged’ within their enterprise. Also has corporations grow, some departments may not have access to all the customer information, due to processes and/or legality. Its frustrating – feeling like you are caught in a loop, no one can help you completely and it is on your shoulders to untangle. A company may have a rewards program and a credit card program – these two teams may have struck guidelines regarding what information can be shared across departments.

Here are two examples I have experienced:

I had an store credit card with Macy’s (it was transferred from my store credit card from Hudson’s after their acquisition). The card sat unused for years. Needing some retail therapy, I saw Macy’s had great offers if you used your Macy’s credit card for the purchase. I was game.

At check out, the cashier informed me that I needed to ‘upgrade’ my account to a Macys/American Express card. The card I had in my hand was no longer valid. I really didn’t want to open an American Express card. I like limited the number of open accounts I have at one time. I just wanted the discount – I’ll use cash to pay for it.

I did open the account and purchased some Christmas gifts. They had some great sales. The statement arrived and I mailed in a check. The next month I received the statement missing the payment. I called, she found the error. The payment was applied to the closed account (giving it a credit) and the open account went unpaid. She took immediate took care of the problem in full. It was silly their systems let them apply a payment to a closed account, when there was an open account for the same person.

A long time ago I opened a traditional saving account with a bank that was in multiple states. At the time I traveled a lot, and we didn’t have the benefit of online banking. So I opened an account that appeared in all my travels. I later found out that although they were all the same bank in name, legalities were preventing customers from depositing money in one state and accessing it another. (P.S. This was a long time ago, and I’m sure a lot has changed.

Loyalty verse Rewards – the details are in the program.

I’ve been working in the business of customer programs for 20 years now, and there is still confusion in the difference between a Loyalty program and a Rewards program. Both are used to promote repeat business with customers. For the majority of these programs, you exchange your name, sales data (and sometimes more) in exchange for a benefit such as a discount on your purchase. They make look the same, but you can think of rewards as being friendly and loyalty as being a friend.

Rewards programs tend to be focused selling you more (buy 7 get one free, discounted tickets, or accumulate points by spending). Loyalty gets a bit trickier. Within loyalty there is a deeper exchange and usually a conversation. When you are loyal, you choose that vendor over another, you talk about it with your friends (positively, but not always). Loyalty has a trust factor saying “I like the way you do business.”

A communication channel (such asin-store, in-app, receipt, text messaging, alters, email, direct mail) is not a program. Although you as a customer have to explicitly opt-in to a program or communication channel. Both loyalty and rewards programs relay on a communication channel, a way to reach you directly to you. In most instances you agree to have an open communication to benefit from these programs. This is the loyalty companies are seeking. Whether it offers discounts for usage or free items, it is only a Loyalty Program if it creates a friendship with an individual.

The very best reference is from a friend.