How to maximize your Facebook privacy
Toronto Sun (blog)
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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 ...
A class-action lawsuit filed this week accuses Zynga, a Facebook partner and social-games maker, of deliberately sharing personal data of Facebook users. ...
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." | |
By Michael Bailey, Globe Staff Representative Edward Markey wants Facebook to provide a full accounting of privacy breaches in its social-networking website ...
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's latest privacy breaches have gotten the attention of Congress. US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe ...
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 ...
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
Computerworld - Two members of the US Congress Tuesday hit Facebook with a series of questions about the latest privacy issues surrounding ...
Monday's Wall Street Journal exposed a Facebook privacy loophole involving third-party applications including fan favorites FarmVille and ...
Some third-party apps, including Farmville, were inadvertently passing User IDs along because of a Web standard called "referrer" ...
San Francisco, CA
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, ...
This time around, Facebook may actually have seen its privacy Watergate: A report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday found that the ...
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
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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