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Why it's dangerous for libraries or anybody else to tie too many of their fortunes to a platform they don't own.
Facebook said Friday it fixed a bug that exposed contact info for over six million accounts. The admission revealed its 'shadow profile' data collection activities, and users are furious. UPDATED.
You’ve built an enormous business around a desktop website. Unfortunately, people around the world are spending more and more time on mobile devices. The vast
Facebook's history as a repeat offender on privacy, and playing loose and easy with our data means that need to be even more vigilant about privacy issues, thanks to this Home app/faux-OS.
Discusses privacy through the "obscurity" of records being difficult to find or laborious to obtain.
In its first big policy shift since Facebook bought the photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users' photos without payment or notification. Oh, and there's no way to opt out.
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FFS FACEBOOK.
FFS FACEBOOK STOP IT.
If there's anything I've learned from covering this issue for the last 3 years, it's that this—and other privacy-related issues on Facebook—are quite widespread. Users have an exceptionally hard time getting anyone at Facebook to listen to their complaints, too; I know this because they usually Google around, find my old coverage here at Ars, and start begging me for help in finding a real person to answer their inquiries. I have received almost unreal levels of e-mail on just Facebook-related privacy problems over the last 37 months.
I established a Facebook account in 2008. My motivation was ignoble: I wanted to distribute my journalism more widely. I have acquired since then just over…
Facebook and Google privacy policies have been found to be more confusing than complex documents such as government notices, credit card agreements, and bank reward-program rules.
Shows just how easy reidentification is -- even for total amateurs.
Of the 25 posts CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published on Facebook's corporate blog in the past five years -- including today's acknowledging a long-term privacy settlement with the FTC -- I count 10 that were written to address complaints.
Has very good "how Facebook tracks you" infographic.
Adrian Short: If you're not paying for your presence on the web, then you're just a product being used by an organisation bigger than you
So yesterday my super-awesome friend John (he’s a published author AND he knows how to make sneaky robots) linked to a blog post on how to see how Facebook’s tracking you: Find a file n…