Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission backed an Internet consumer protection plan that would let browsers chose whether or not they’ll allow their Web activity to be monitored. Claiming that large Internet companies haven’t done enough to protect the privacy of their users, the FTC has asked for a “Do Not Track” option be made …
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Facebook in Hot Water Over Leaked User IDs
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a story concerning the inadvertent passing of Facebook users’ personal information between popular third-party Facebook applications and several outside marketing agencies and data-gathering firms.
Every Facebook user is assigned a unique, non-identifying, numeric “user ID” that’s …
Facebook: You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product
Man, I love Bruce Schneier. Here’s a pithy, pitch-perfect summary of your relationship with Facebook:
Social networking websites are “deliberately killing privacy” in order to make a profit, according to renowned security author Bruce Schneier.
Speaking at the RSA Europe security conference in London on Tuesday, the BT Counterpane
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Passwords: How To Stop Ignoring The Expert Advice
By now you’ve heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There’s a good chance you ignore them. Let’s talk about why that is and what you can do about it.
To begin with, it really does matter. Easy to guess passwords (12345, pet’s name, kid’s name, birthdate, etc) really do expose you to snooping and identity …
What Is ‘Privacy’: a Professor’s Taxonomy
Mike Masnick over at Techdirt, who had a kind word for my first post about “nothing to hide,” draws my attention to a short scholarly essay on the subject by GW Law School’s Daniel Solove. By way of rebutting the claim that we don’t need privacy if we do no wrong, Solove lays out what he calls a taxonomy of the many issues …
Facebook Bug Reveals Full Names and Photos to Anyone
UPDATE: Looks like the issue has been fixed now.
Oh, lovely. Check this out before Facebook patches this up—hopefully they’ll get it fixed quickly. Go to Facebook and try to log in with someone else’s e-mail address. Don’t worry about the password, it doesn’t matter. If this person has a Facebook account, you’ll see their full name, …
Only Hot Chicks Care About Facebook Privacy
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Talks Privacy At D8
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up about the backlash he’s faced in recent weeks since due to Facebook’s ever-changing privacy settings while at the D8 conference Wednesday.
(More on Techland: Live Blogging Facebook’s New Privacy Changes)
Answering to The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg pretty …
Live Blog: Facebook’s New Privacy Changes
Facebook is all set to roll out its “simpler” privacy changes after this month’s backlash over the amount of user data that is available through the site. I’ll be live blogging the press conference here, set to begin at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. ET). Hit refresh to update.
(More on Time.com: Facebook Gives The Scoop On More Privacy …
Poll: Do You Give A Hoot About Tomorrow’s Facebook Privacy Changes?
It seems like a Facebook change is more of a weekly event than a grand, once-in-a-while update. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook’s VP of Product Chris Cox announced that the site would roll out changes to its privacy settings once again, this time bringing a settings system that is “drastically simplified.” Right now, users …
Poll: Quitting Facebook Because of New Privacy Terms?
We can’t go anywhere without hearing gripes about Facebook’s new terms of use. How do you feel about all of this Facebook backlash? Are you searching for delete instructions as I type, or “Liking” everything in sight? We’re curious.
Facebook’s Privacy Changes Expose Founder Zuckerberg
The early poster child for the controversial new changes to Facebook’s privacy policy? Facebook’s founder and CEO himself.
Facebook released a set of Dec. 9 changes to Facebook’s privacy policy that includes a new set of Facebook user information in public search results, everything from the complete list of a user’s friends, to …
