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October 21, 2010

Facebook violates privacy behind your back

Toronto Sun (blog)
 - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
By GetConnected Facebook is getting the heat (once again) over privacy. According to the Wall Street Journal, the social-networking site has been sharing ...

Zynga Sued for Alleged Privacy Violations

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
A class-action lawsuit filed this week accuses Zynga, a Facebook partner and social-games maker, of deliberately sharing personal data of Facebook users. ...

US congressmen seek explanation from Facebook

AFP - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
WASHINGTON — Two members of the US Congress have asked Facebook to explain how applications transmitted information about users to advertising and Web ...


In their letter, Burton and Markey, co-chairmen of the House BiPartisan Privacy Caucus, said: "Given the number of current users, the rate at which that number grows worldwide, and the age range of Facebook users, combined with the amount and the nature of information these users place in Facebook's trust, this series of breaches of consumer privacy is a cause for concern."

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Markey calls on Facebook to explain privacy breaches

Boston Globe - Stephanie Vallejo - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
By Michael Bailey, Globe Staff Representative Edward Markey wants Facebook to provide a full accounting of privacy breaches in its social-networking website ...

Managing your online identity

Baltimore Sun - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
Does your Facebook presence need tweaking? What you need to know to maintain your online reputation. Are you aware of your online identity? ...

Blogs

Facebook App Breach Gets The Attention of Congress

Wired News (blog) - Jacqui Cheng - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
Facebook's latest privacy breaches have gotten the attention of Congress. US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe ...

Congress looks into Facebook privacy breach

Washington Post (blog) - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
After Sunday's news that an online glitch led to a major leak of Facebook user IDs, US Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairmans ...

Facebook Groups Can Jeopardize Privacy

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Oct 18, 2010‎
The breach that allowed application developers to disclose user information to advertisers, isn't Facebook's only current privacy problem. ...

United States

Lawmakers hit Facebook CEO with privacy questions

Computerworld - Sharon Gaudin - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
Computerworld - Two members of the US Congress Tuesday hit Facebook with a series of questions about the latest privacy issues surrounding ...

Can Facebook Make Friends of Enemy Congressmen Markey and Barton?

Vanity Fair - Juli Weiner - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
Monday's Wall Street Journal exposed a Facebook privacy loophole involving third-party applications including fan favorites FarmVille and ...

Facebook's Latest Privacy Fears Are No Big Deal

PC World - Jared Newman - ‎Oct 19, 2010‎
Some third-party apps, including Farmville, were inadvertently passing User IDs along because of a Web standard called "referrer" ...

San Francisco, CA

Facebook and privacy issues

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎Oct 18, 2010‎
If you thought Facebook was your personal playground, think again. Play the most popular games, and your personal information - and in some cases, ...

Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?

CNET - Caroline McCarthy - ‎Oct 18, 2010‎
This time around, Facebook may actually have seen its privacy Watergate: A report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday found that the ...

BUSTED: Wall Street Journal Catches Facebook, Zynga Giving Your Info To ...

San Francisco Chronicle - Henry Blodget - ‎Oct 17, 2010‎
The latest in the Wall Street Journal's series on online privacy--which, until now, has mostly been hysterical screaming about things most people know and ...

Palo Alto, CA

Quinn Emanuel: Facebook's User Data Policies Are Somewhat Ambiguous

Inside Social Games - Chris Morrison - ‎Oct 18, 2010‎
Following the suspension of all LOLapps games and apps on Friday by Facebook, the issue of Facebook policy has once again caught the ...

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