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Facebook's new status feature may cause headaches
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Facebook has just announced another feature that should make you scramble to update your privacy settings.
Facebook knows too much, ACLU says in warning of quizzes
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Privacy advocates have long warned that users of Facebook and other social networks who seek amusement from quizzes like "What Simpsons Character Are You?" might be mortified by the way creators of such applications can access ...
Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.
Here's a guide to social networking for clueless adults
May 13, 2009 |
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Welcome to Facebook, children of the 20th century. Since the social network, initially developed for students, relaxed its rules in 2006 to let in pretty much anyone older than 13, millions of users who predate the Internet ...
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Watchdog: Facebook violates Canadian privacy law
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Canada's privacy commissioner says the online social networking site Facebook breaches Canadian law by keeping users personal information indefinitely after members close their accounts.
Study finds widespread privacy failings in online social networks
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.
Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.
Balancing your Facebook
Mar 04, 2009 |
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It seems everyone is on Facebook these days: your co-workers, your best friend from third grade, your mom. Facebook usage has exploded in the past year, with the site claiming its fastest-growing demographic ...
Facebook outlines new privacy policy
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users.
Prof Warns of Risks on Social Network Sites
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The data that can be easily extracted from people’s online social networking activities could be either a blessing or a curse, says a UT Dallas researcher.
Technology users are failing to take adequate steps to protect their digital privacy
Sep 05, 2008 |
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In the face of technology that will soon be able not only to track an individual's movements but predict them too, people are far too relaxed about protecting their privacy, according to social psychologist Saadi Lahlou, ...
EU to sue Britain over Internet privacy
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker called Phorm from watching how users surf the Web.
New study looks at re-identification risks
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify ...
New digital security program doesn't protect as promised
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.
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