Investigate Your Business Partners BEFORE You Startup
Going into business with a partner or partners is a great way to pool resources, complement skillsets, and manage the enormous workload that comes with business ownership. That is, if you partner with the right people. Do your due diligence before you get in too deep...
Al-Qaeda to the Alt-Right: How to Predict an Extremist on Twitter Before They Even Post
Extremist organization members are growing more and more active on social media to plan, harass, recruit, and incite. In 2016 on Twitter alone, 360,000 ISIS accounts were shut down. Researchers have found a way to predict extremist users before they even post content....
When Love Scams Turn Deadly: Catfished Woman Plots Murder for Inheritance
We all want to make our loved ones happy. But what happens when your online lover's financial woes never cease? How far would you go to fork over more cash? This woman went as far as financial fraud, and then went even further. Dating scams can impact more people than...
Let’s Talk About Scams: Break the Silence, Break the Stigma
Scam victims are more concerned about coming out as a victim than with the money lost to the con artist. Many of these newsletters are dedicated to teaching you how to spot a scam. We need to keep talking about scams, and we need to avoid victim-blaming language when...
Privacy Alert: Who’s Been Reading My Emails?
Does it ever feel like your apps know you a bit TOO well? It's because they've been reading your emails! Misleading, convoluted privacy policies grant partners of subsidiaries of third parties to view your emails for their own purposes. Is there a way to opt out?...
How to Insulate Your Company Against #MeToo Consequences
Workplace sexual harassment allegations can take down companies along with their offending employees, managers, and owners. That's why it's important to have strong sexual harassment policies and investigative tools in place to protect your employees, and prevent...
Workplace Safety: How to Safely Fire a Violent Employee
We all know about the perils of taking your work home with you, but what about the perils of doing the opposite? You never know what's going on in a coworker or employee's life, but when it starts to create a hostile work environment, it's time to intervene, and when...
P2P Problems: Significant Glitches in New Peer-to-Peer Payment Services
New tech solutions to common problems - like being caught with no cash - come along with new glitches to work out. Instead of holding off on new tech until all the kinks get worked out - which they never do - there are precautions you can take to make new tech like...
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