Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Via the Calgary Sun
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy watchdog says Internet phenomenon Facebook breaches the law by keeping users’ personal information indefinitely — even after members close their accounts.
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the popular social networking site should hang on to the data only for as long as truly necessary.
In a report Thursday, Stoddart urged [...]

Via the New York Times
By ALAN COWELL
Published: February 18, 2009

After a wave of protests from its users, the Facebook social networking site said on Wednesday that it would withdraw changes to its so-called terms of service concerning the data supplied by the tens of millions of people who use it.
The about-face was made known to [...]

Via Mashable

February 16, 2009 - 3:47 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

oday’s hoopla over changes to the Facebook Terms of Service have prompted a rare blog post from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the post, Zuckerberg falls short of apologizing for the changes, but rather, uses the opportunity [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on December 28, 2008
If you are the kind of person who can’t help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows direct (private) messages that were sent [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 11, 2008 - 11:07AM CT

The idea for a virtual world focused on the Islamic lifestyle began five years ago, when CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry moved from Dubai to Finland in order to attend university. Raised in Dubai, El-Fatatry wanted wider horizons and a chance to see more of [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 11, 2008 - 05:10AM CT

The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a transition agenda for the incoming Obama administration Tuesday, outlining measures president-elect Barack Obama should take—both via immediate executive orders and longer term legislative reform—to restore privacy safeguards that have been eroded over the past eight [...]

Via Ars Technica
By Julian Sanchez
| Published: December 05, 2008 - 10:01AM CT

Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs
any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment
rights were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit
of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 04, 2008 - 09:35PM CT
Now that the official Amazon Mobile iPhone app is here, it’s easier than every to check prices from anywhere, even while shopping in retail stores. And the company’s clever new “Amazon Remembers” service will use humans to identify product pics snapped with the [...]

Via the New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: November 29, 2008 HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every move, he receives a free smartphone.
Now, when he dials another student, researchers know. When [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 30, 2008
Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace (Data Availability) and Google (Friend [...]