Sharing information on Facebook

The well-known ?social utility? Facebook.com was created by Mark Zuckerburg, a 2006 Harvard graduate, and it was launched on February 4, 2004, says Wikipedia.
From: www.trftimes.com

As ads arrive on cell phones, privacy concerns grow with targeting opportunities

NEW YORK ? Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.
From: www.mddailyrecord.com

UK shamed in world privacy league

We beat China though! Go team! Former world power and current CCTV capital of the universe the UK has been fingered as the worst place in Europe if you fancy a little bit of privacy.?
From: go.theregister.com

As ads arrive on cell phones, privacy concerns grow

NEW YORK -- Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like. ... - By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press
From: www.nashuatelegraph.com

Privacy, schmivacy

"Privacy is dead; deal with it." So said Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy in the year 2000. McNealy...
From: www.normantranscript.com

Privacy delays ad targeting on phones

Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.
From: news.yahoo.com

Google Reader Sharing Feature Raises Privacy Concerns

Google announced a small change to Google Reader back on December 14 which seemed innocent enough, and in line with their goals of making all the world?s content searchable. Nevertheless, users of the service have been none too pleased with the change, citing serious privacy concerns and raising hell over the holidays. The update to [...]
From: www.searchenginejournal.com

Google Responds to Shared Reader Privacy Furor

Google learns from its Reader fiasco that sharing is not the same as caring.
From: www.eweek.com

Online Advertising vs. Personal Privacy

With more than $11 billion in acquisitions this year aimed at reshaping Internet advertising, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are ready for the competition to pick up steam. But a funny thing happened on the way to the brave new world of online ads: Web users rediscovered a sense of privacy. Members of the social network Facebook howled this month after it launched Beacon, an advertising feature ...
From: www.crm-daily.com

Keeping It Private On Google Reader

Almost two weeks ago, I wrote my Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items post detailing how disturbing it was that Google Reader was now sharing items with people it considered my friends, on an opt-out basis. Privacy concerns over this finally exploded this week, with Google Reader itself now reacting mainly to highlight how friend sharing can be enabled or disabled. ...
From: searchengineland.com

Tech Predictions for 2008

We predict good times for Linux, Windows XP, and green vendors, challenges for social nets and mobile technologies, and some surprises in the new year.
From: news.yahoo.com

Networking sites click with candidates

AUSTIN ? Call it the newest online hookup.
From: www.dallasnews.com

The Perils Of Social Networking

In November, more than 145 million people worldwide logged onto at least one of the 20 most-visited social networking Web sites, says Nielsen/NetRatings.
From: news.yahoo.com

Google Ruining Christmas? Get a Grip

Since I?m full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I?ve been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on ? but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass has made it hard to stay serene (combined with gashing my hand playing Wii baseball), so I can?t help pointing out that much of the moaning about ...
From: www.webpronews.com

Targeted E-Marketing: Finding the Sweet Spot

Get ready for new "controlled circulation" models on the Web, ones that target you based not on your preferences for music or soft drinks -- but on what you consume in your occupation. Think of it as B2B social networking. First, some set-up ... One of the great media inventions of the mid-20th century was the notion of affinity-based, controlled circulation publishing.
From: www.ecommercetimes.com

U.S. study tracks racial trends in Facebook users

A new study that relies on data from Facebook finds students of African-American and mixed-race heritage are the most likely to have ethnically diverse social groups.
From: www.ctv.ca

The year in Canadian tech law, A to Z

The past 12 months marked another remarkable year in law and technology featuring business developments, policy decisions, lawsuits, court rulings and new legislation that will have a profound long-term impact on the Internet in Canada. From A to Z, there was rarely a dull moment in 2007.
From: www.thestar.com

Facebook users can opt out of public purchase reports

Earlier this month, the popular social Web site Facebook Inc. said it went too far in its pursuit of profit and reversed itself, allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off its Beacon advertising program, which tracks their activities at other Web sites.
From: www.azstarnet.com

Intimate Shopping

Should everyone know what you bought today?
From: www.nytimes.com

The Facebook way of life

Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington is a senior at the Missouri School of Journalism. I tried to commit Facebook suicide once. It was mid-November 2005. I was a sophomore at MU and ...
From: columbiamissourian.com

The "New Privacy")

Growing up online, young people assume their inner circle knows their business. The "new privacy" is about controlling how many people know--not if anyone knows.
From: www.huffingtonpost.com

Should you get paid to Facebook?

A social networking site is paying users for signing up and inviting friends.
From: news.bbc.co.uk

Facehooked

Social networking site Facebook has got an estimated 50 million members and is valued at £7.5bn. Can it last?
From: news.bbc.co.uk

Researchers use Facebook to study friendship

IT IS USED to share photos with friends, to post messages to old acquaintances and to exchange virtual cocktails and kisses with users around the globe.
From: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

Facebook tries to save its Beacon

SOCIAL networking giant Facebook has marshalled its army of software developers to create ideas for the lucrative electronic commerce world, potentially tipping the company beyond its$US15 billion ($17.4 billion) valuation.
From: theaustralian.news.com.au

US web users snub Facebook privacy

Study points finger at irresponsible consumers Most internet users are unconcerned with the repercussions of sharing personal information online and do nothing to protect their ID, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in the US.
From: www.pcadvisor.co.uk

Facebook backs off marketing tool

Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off a new marketing tool that tracks their activities at other websites.
From: betalive.denverpost.com

Facebook explores payment schemes

SOCIAL networking giant Facebook has begun exploring ways to introduce payment systems on its website.
From: australianit.news.com.au

Know your privacy rights when using online social networking

The Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis has entered the privacy debate surrounding social networking sites announcing a new FAQ section on its website that helps minimise risks associated with the activity.
From: www.itnews.com.au

Experts: Update privacy laws

MENLO PARK -- Privacy? What privacy?
From: redding.com

BigString Corporation Launches Facebook Application Enabling Users to Send Self-Destructing Videos

BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC) has launched an application for Facebook that enables users to
From: www.wallstreet-online.de

Power of Facebook affects law

Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at how the power of Facebook can effect legislation
From: news.bbc.co.uk

Facebook and computer privacy

Facebook turns off Beacon program Earlier this month, the popular social Web site Facebook Inc. said it went too far in its pursuit of profit and reversed itself, allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off its Beacon advertising program, which tracks their activities at other Web sites.
From: www.newsday.com

Facebook Maps Networks

It seems that birds of a feather do flock together. A new study by members of Harvard?s Sociology Department and a UCLA sociology professor using Facebook to analyze the social habits of undergraduates shows fairly homogenous friend networks among college students.
From: www.thecrimson.com

On Facebook? You?re being stalked online

The faster version, developed by two Kolkatans, uploaded on the Facebook that sees half a million daily users of the Scrabble-like game.
From: www.hindustantimes.com

Facebook sues Ont. porn company over alleged hacking

Facebook is suing a Toronto-based porn company and 17 people for allegedly trying to hack the social networking site for the personal information of its users.
From: www.cbc.ca

World News: TeleNav?s Whereboutz? connects Facebook friends

TeleNav?s free application, Whereboutz, is available on more than 100 types of cell-phones and also on the Facebook platform. (12/17/2007)
From: www.telematicsupdate.com

Facebook doubles as sociological petri dish

About 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com every day to accumulate “friends,” compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research.
From: www.signonsandiego.com

Social scientists see Facebook as a petri dish for young adults

Each day about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses.
From: www.heraldtribune.com

Researchers mine data in Facebook

Each day, about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos, and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research.
From: www.boston.com

Facebook Studied For Academic Research

Each day, about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research.
From: www2.tbo.com

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data

A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
From: www.nytimes.com

Add a few more friends to your Facebook page: Social science researchers

The social-networking site, a petri dish of personal interaction, has become a holy grail for those who examine human behavior.
From: www.startribune.com

Facebook suing Canadian porn site

Company allegedly hijacked servers of popular social-networking site
From: www.theglobeandmail.com

OpenSocial Faces Off with Facebook

Following the announcement by Facebook that it would make its platform available to other sites, the application-sharing environment for social networking is moving quickly and picking up steam.
From: news.yahoo.com

Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon?

An anonymous reader writes "A professor at the New York Law School is arguing that Blockbuster violated the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 when movie choices that Facebook members made on its Web site were made available to other members of the social network via Beacon. The law basically prohibits video rental outfits from disclosing rental choice of their customers to anyone else without ...
From: yro.slashdot.org

TRUSTe and Facebook Announce Disclosure Enhancements and Model Privacy Policy Language for New Web Sites That ...

TRUSTe and Facebook today announced enhanced disclosures around the Beacon program in the Facebook privacy policy, and unveiled recommended language for new Beacon Web site partners to use in their own privacy policies. As a result of recent changes implemented by Facebook, Beacon now requires an affirmative opt-in and user control over whether activity is made available to friends and networks ...
From: biz.yahoo.com

Are You Cyber-Safe? New Podcast on Tech Topics and Trends Including Facebook?s Ad Technology and Online Privacy ...

(Vocus) December 11, 2007 --WHAT: Why privacy advocates are after Facebook now?
From: news.yahoo.com

Ask rolls out search privacy tool

Ask hopes a tool which erases search history will prove a winner with consumers concerned about privacy.
From: news.bbc.co.uk

Facebook partners quiet on Beacon fallout

Many partners in Facebook?s Beacon seem reticent to address the raging privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, resorting to terse, vague statements or opting for outright silence when asked for comment.
From: news.yahoo.com

Privacy is key to new social networking site, Kaioo

Kaioo, a nonprofit organization, boasts some of the strictest data protection regulations in the world. The founders, including Rolf Schmidt-Hol tz, chief executive of Sony BMG, pledge that its mission is to create an international haven from sites like Facebook and MySpace.
From: www.iht.com

Facebook retreats on online tracking

Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program.
From: www.iht.com

Facebook apologises for breach

FACEBOOK has apologised for a privacy breach involving its Beacon advertising program.
From: australianit.news.com.au

Face it, we love our Facebook

The list of things that help define Canada just got a little longer: Hockey, Tim Hortons and ... Facebook.
From: www.thestar.com

Syria blocks Facebook

SYRIAN authorities have blocked Facebook over what seems to be fears of Israeli "infiltration" of Syrian social networks on the Net.
From: www.australianit.com.au

Facebook steps back after targeting misfires

Facebook pushed the boundaries of ad targeting when the online hangout presumed users would want the site to mine their Internet activity.
From: www.courier-journal.com

Facebook backtracks after privacy worries

CEO admits social-networking blunder. Facebook has caved to users by announcing a new privacy control to allow users to turn off the controversial Beacon advertising system.
From: www.techworld.com

Facebook application a threat to privacy of users, say critics

Facebook.com, the Internet home of over 55 million networking teens, students, and adults, met resistance this week in response to a new advertising initiative called Beacon. Thanks to the large numbers of young consumers who frequent Facebook, the site is a dream come true for advertisers looking to reach youth markets.
From: www.bcheights.com

Facebook founder apologizes, adds privacy control to ad tool

Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off a new marketing tool that tracks their activities at other websites.
From: www.hfxnews.ca

Facebook Revamps Ad System

Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies
From: www.time.com

Facebook caves after privacy faux pax

CEO attempts to fix social-networking blunder Facebook has caved to users by announcing a new privacy control to allow users to turn off the controversial Beacon advertising system.
From: www.pcadvisor.co.uk

Facebook apologises over privacy issue

Facebook said it will allow members to turn off a controversial feature that monitors the websites they visit, and its chief executive apologised for not responding sooner to privacy complaints.
From: tvnz.co.nz

Facebook Apologizes Over Handling of Ad Feature

The apology followed weeks of criticism from Facebook members, privacy groups and advertisers.
From: www.nytimes.com

Facebook founder apologizes, lets users block marketing tool

Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off a new marketing tool that tracks their activities at other Web sites. The privacy control, announced in...
From: www.sfgate.com

Facebook founder apologizes, offers more control over new ads

Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off its "Beacon" advertising program, which tracks their activities at other Web sites. The privacy...
From: www.sfgate.com

Facebook backpedals from new ad system

Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off its "Beacon" advertising program, which tracks their activities at other Web sites. The privacy control, announced in a Wednesday apology by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, will likely decrease participation in a month-old program that the Palo ...
From: www.thestate.com

Facebook CEO apologizes for privacy snafu

Facebook said on Wednesday it will allow members to turn off a controversial feature that monitors the Web sites they visit, and its chief executive apologized for not responding sooner to privacy complaints.
From: news.yahoo.com

The Facebook founder finds he wants some privacy

Facebook tried to force the magazine 02138 to remove some unflattering documents about Mark Zuckerberg from its Web site, but a U.S. federal judge denied the request.
From: www.iht.com

Facebook confirms CA findings on user privacy research

Facebook confirms CA findings on user privacy researchSocial Networking portal Facebook has admitted that the research conducted by CA was true and they do receive information related to their customers from third party sites even if they are logged off their Facebook accounts.A company representative added that they do not do anything with this data [...]
From: www.addict3d.org

Facebook Responds to Users Angry at Its New Adware

Social networking giant Facebook deals with frustrated users who feel in violated their privacy....
From: www.dailytech.com

The Facebook Privacy Fallout Continues

For those just joining us, Facebook was overly aggressive with its Beacon tracking program, one of several new ad programs launched in early November. Beacon required users to opt-out or have their activity and transactions on Facebook partner sites broadcast to their networks back on Facebook. Discovering this, many people were frustrated and upset by what they felt was a lack of ...
From: searchengineland.com

Facebook tweaks advertising controls

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies.
From: www.dispatch.com

Facebook Founder Finds He Wants Some Privacy

A federal judge last week turned down Facebook?s request for a court order to take down some unflattering documents about its founder on the Web site of the magazine 02138.
From: www.nytimes.com

Facebook makes privacy changes

CONFRONTED with mounting privacy protests, Facebook.com has scaled back a web monitoring feature called Facebook Beacon.
From: australianit.news.com.au