Allstate uses social media to check claims

Re:Allstate uses social media to check claims by cdr2020 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:02PM (#16270750)

I agree that people should be more responsible about what things they choose to post publicly. But networks such as facebook make it really difficult for the average joe (the guy that rock climbs after claiming a back injury) to decipher what is private vs. public. When it's tied to your real-life identity, and potential consequences therein, it should be so simple a toddler could understand.

Either get serious about your privacy on public networks tied to your identity (see facebook privacy checker: https://www.facebook.com/help/443357099140264/ ), only use 100% anonymous public networks (see reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ ) or stick to a 100% private social network, like I've done (see select: https://mailchi.mp/231daaf5ccef/select-03 ).

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Re:Allstate uses social media to check claims by Consultant32452 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:55PM (#16283982)

I don't think this is as much of a problem with the social contract of privacy as it is about the social contract regarding distributed risk. I'm happy to pitch in publicly via taxes and privately via insurance to make sure people are taken care of in the event of a serious injury, because it will probably happen to me eventually and I'd like to be taken care of too. But if you've got a serious injury claim, you should NOT BE ROCK CLIMBING. The idea that the message there is that you shouldn't post public pics of you rock climbing is the wrong message imo.

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Re:Allstate uses social media to check claims by gruez on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:38PM (#16285112)

>only use 100% anonymous public networks (see reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ )

nitpick: reddit is pesudoanonymous, anonymous would be something like 4chan.

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Re:Allstate uses social media to check claims by olefoo on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:03PM (#16285349)

Reddit, much like this site; offers the potential for anonymity but it is all too easy to inadvertently leak correlation handles that allow for deanonymization.

General rule is going to be the longer you use an identity the more likely you are to taint it with information having direct or indirect deanonymization potential.

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Re:Allstate uses social media to check claims by Karunamon on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:25PM (#16284309)

Really difficult? It's a single click at post time.

Example from mine: https://imgur.com/3EcvT5E

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