personal privacy
Facebook IPO Will Put Social Network in Google, Apple's League
...s advertising. Advertisers are advertising on Facebook because targeting is theoretically so precise on the platform. In order to compete with Facebook as a media, Google had to do this." Catherine Tucker, associate professor of marketing for MIT's Sloan School of Management, said Facebook itself is only beginning to recognize the "untapped potential" of this kind of advertising through its...
Facebook Users Take a Sharp Turn Toward Privacy
...in New York City in March 2010 and June 2011, noting which aspects of the profile were accessible and which were hidden. The public profile is the page displayed when viewing the profile of someone with whom the searcher is not a designated Facebook friend. The amount of information available on the public page can be adjusted according to user preferences. In March 2010, 17 perce...
Social networking sites tips on keeping it snug!
...lar ads of a TV network “think before you click” to avoid spreading malware. Avoid scams and be wary when contacted on a social networking site with a request for money or with an offer that’s surprisingly good. Protect your privacy and make a habit of reading the site’s policy and be cautious if it is vague. Remember do not assume privacy on social networking sites. Do not give persona...
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User privacy key as Facebook goes public
Respect for privacy and the personal data of of its hundreds of millions of users is going to be an even greater concern for Facebook as the booming social network prepares to list on Wall Street. Respect for privacy and the personal data of of its hundreds of millions of users is going to be an even greater concern for Facebook as the booming social network prepares to list on Wall...
Who's Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?
...e some of the patents and patent applications he filed on behalf of a company he started that Google later acquired. Also on Wednesday, on the occasion of Facebook filing to go public, two patent researchers from Envision IP posted a good summary of the distribution of social networking patents among tech companies. Here’s a breakdown: Facebook: Facebook told prospective investors that it has...
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EU court: Social networks can't be piracy brakes
...e's YouTube basetheir business models on the sharing of users' views and information, as doesNetlog. SABAM isone of 24 national collecting societies across the 27-country EU that collectroyalty payments on behalf of authors, singers and performers. In aseparate case last year, the ECJ dismissed a bid by SABAM to get Scarlet, aunit of Belgian telecom operator Belgacom, to stop its users from illega...
Tags: facebook, social networks, eu, censorship, twitter, internet
More Uproar About New Google Privacy Policies
... could lead to the search giant assemblingricher behavior profiles of people who use more than one of its popular onlineservices. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaintasking a Washington, D.C., district court judge to restrain Google from makingthe policy change on March 1. EPIC also asked the judge to order the FederalTrade Commission to enforce a standing court order that p...
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Online Social Networking May Cause Job Loss
... for violations in policies and implement the consequences. Provide an avenue for appeal and attend to employees’ due process rights. Implement policies in an effective and non-discriminatory manner. Amend policies as the law evolves. Much of the law related to technology is in flux. What is legal today may not be tomorrow. Although the recommendations are directed toward an educational setting,...
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EU court rules social networks cannot police downloads
...downloading songs illegally. The court, which is the highest judicial authority in the EU, stated that installing general filters would infringe on the freedom to conduct business and on data privacy. In a press statement accompanying its judgement, the court stated that forcing sites to police their network for illegal downloads “would not be respecting the prohibition to impose on that provi...
Google+ Has Photo Privacy Problems
...ven on G+, much less my friends on it. It’s not a big deal. None of the photos were embarrassing — they’re just shots of family, and private events. And they’re down now. Deleted from G+. And I won’t put any more up. The experience has made me trust this social network quite a lot less. And if you’ve uploaded photos that you don’t mean for the world to be able to search, you may w...
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Infographic: Social Media Habits and Privacy Concerns
...tely wouldn’t share their phone numbers, and 61.1 percent of men and 78.1 percent of women said they definitely wouldn’t share their income. Moreso, according to survey results, 28 percent of respondents were to some degree uncomfortable with privacy protections, and among respondents who said they used no social media sties, 73 percent said they refused because of privacy concerns. It’s a...
Believe It Or Not, There's An Upside To Diminished Online Privacy
...s dream. Tthe paper's Sunday Review section had three lengthy opinion pieces dedicated to "Life Under Digital Dominance" (their words, not mine), including Evgeny Morozov's lengthy treatise that social media will kill originality because we're all too afraid to publicly "like" something on Facebook that our friends don't like, a plea to adopt European-style rules to keep data private and a particu...
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On Science and Social Media – An Academic's Viewpoint #SoNYC
...and memes blog is running a series of guest posts, recounting experiences where social media has been a key part of an education project. I was asked to contribute to this series, and my post, reproduced with permission below, can be seen at (© nature.com): One of the best things about working at a medical school is that we have lots of students and lots of technology, so three years ago we ra...
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What's Going On with Google's New Privacy Policy?
...13; noncommercial sites supported by advertising or product sales collect information about customers. The legislation covered "personally identifiable information," including names, e-mail addresses, and numeric I.P. addresses. The catch, McCullagh explained, is that Congress’ April 2002 Online Personal Privacy Act and Europe’s op...
Disrupting Cloud; privacy gaffes; UK M-payments collaboration, M-termination rates; & LightScrewed? - Telco 2.0 News Review
...k for more of this in any market where FTTH or modern cable plant isn't available. Patents: Apple won a lawsuit in Germany regarding "slide to unlock", but it looks like Google might have published earlier. But it's not that amazing a feature, and of course touchscreens existed before the iPhone. Android Central has video of a Windows CE device from 2005 with the feature. ...
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What's Next For Location Marketing? A round-up from Social Media Week London
...cture providers need to make the technology possible, brands need to ensure its appealing and the technology providers need to make it simple to use. Only then will consumers make use of location-based services without a second thought. Overall, the sense from the panel was that the role of location based marketing is only going to increase. With all the panelists agreeing that it is not a matt...
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Social Media Networking: Gone Is The Luxury of Privacy
... world is different. It's not only traditional media that is snapping photos of stars as they walk the red carpet in designer gowns and jewels. It's you and you and you and me who has access to the most influencial media channel in history .. the Internet. That changes the game for everyone. To the people who are authentically and bravely exploring what it's like to create and nurtu...
Google's Safari Hijinks Prompts Congressmen to Seek FTC Inquiry
...all Street Journal, the Representatives, who serve in the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, queried the FTC concerning whether Google's actions that enabled it to track Safari users without their consent ran afoul of a 2011 settlement agreement between the FTC and Google occasioned by the social network Google Buzz's breach of privacy rights during its launch. The accord prohibits Google f...
Tags: invasion of privacy, edward markey, joe barton, electronic privacy information center, safari, google
Will you pay for Facebook?
...ce Facebook offers the user, other than the ability to connect with friends and/or brands, groups, etc. that interest you? Charging for this is akin to paying for your friends. That is not going to fly. Paying for Privacy? No thanks Fadaghi's comments generated heated discussion here in the newsroom. Someone half-joked that a premium Facebook account could provide a service where users' account ...
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So what *should* the identity architecture look like?
...t proto-standards for this sort of thing, but I haven't seen much agreement yet. It's not going to be real until multiple companies are hosting applications using the same standard, and a fair number of companies are writing applications using it. Layer 4: Aggregation -- this is the elephant in the room, that everyone prefers to ignore, but it's central to much of the privacy problem. The thing i...
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