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26Dec

Randi Zuckerberg’s Blames Writer For Posting ‘Private’ Christmas Photo, Viewable To Subscribers

Randi Zuckerberg unwittingly exposed some of Facebook’s privacy woes ...

18Dec

Facebook Rejects German Demand To Let Users Pick Fake Names

Facebook rejects a German demand to allow users to register with fake names, ...

26Nov

Facebook Warning Hoax: Social Network Releases Statement On Fake Copyright Messages

Have you seen some official looking messages about privacy and copyrights ...

24Sep

Facebook Users Report Seeing Private Messages Showing Up In Timeline

Facebook has managed to pull off its biggest privacy gaffe to date. The social network on Monday accidentally began displaying users private messages directly on their Facebook timeline, allowing other users to see their private conversations. According to Facebook the private messages were those written in 2009 and they showed up as “Posted by friends.”… Read more »

12Jul

Facebook Read Receipts Are Going to Totally Cramp All Our Stalking Styles, You Guys

Oh, my God, Facebook is introducing “read receipts” and there is ...

17Jun

Credit Scores Could Soon Be Influenced By Facebook Likes, Behavior, German Plan Suggests

Credit scores are a bit voodoo in their nature, and the methodology of calculating the three-digit number that influences your mortgage rate, auto loan offers and even job prospects is a for-profit trade secret- but a quashed plan in Germany to involve Facebook activity in determining creditworthiness indicates that your activity on social media could… Read more »

15Jun

Getting ‘Served’ on Facebook: The Issue of Process Service on Social Network Examined Again

Currently, getting served on Facebook generally happens when you make a quick quip on someone’s (or your own) status update and a friend has to offer you ice for that burn, or more likely in my case, when your mother publicly reprimands you in front of 343 people for using edgy language or acknowledging the… Read more »

04Jun

Facebook to Allow Users to Vote on Privacy Changes

Brace yourselves: the onslaught of Facebook privacy-related status updates is coming. Basically since the first Face was Booked way back in the mid 2000′s at Harvard, people have been moaning about their privacy on the social network. On one hand, it seems pretty simplistic- a bunch of people utilize a free service for sharing details… Read more »

03May

Consumer Reports Examines Facebook Privacy From The User End

Consumer Reports often looks at a company’s practices, products or services from the consumer’s viewpoint in a review-type way, but a new report by the trusted watchdog brand has delved into how users of the service could be managing their privacy settings in a far more proactive way. The June issue of Consumer Reports examines… Read more »

23Mar

Facebook Steps Up, Threatens Snooping Employers With ‘Legal Liability’ in New Note

Well, it seems that the question (as if there ever was one) of whether hiring managers should even be able to ask you for your Facebook password as part of the interview process has been answered unambiguously by Facebook itself, and the social network has stepped up in a big way to protect its users… Read more »

30Jan