Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
While checking in with my company fanpage I noticed the nice, neat little message that today Facebook is rolling out the “like” button for Fan Pages . . . I’m not sure how much I really “like” this idea Facebook. When you become a fan of a site doesn’t it make more sense for me [...]
This short Frontline documentary shows students giving up their privacy while using school laptops when on school property, and unlike the total invasion of privacy story that broke around mid February, this Bronx school seems to have gotten it right. The grade improvements speak for themselves. But at what cost?
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It’s all fun and games until someone starts a class-action lawsuit. And this one is a doozy, complete with Fourth Amendment violations and numerous wiretap violations.
Google is scrambling to repair the security exploit (see lack of follower message view control) they overlooked by stating that the option to block public views of contacts was always there. LifeHacker has a decent walk-through and Google has now posted a “we listened to your feedback” post on the official Google blog page. This fix is not a [...]
