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[Ethonomics] Facebook Privacy Suit: Maybe The World's Not So Net-Savvy After ...: It was filed yesterday in the Orange County Superior Court by five plaintiffs, which the AP has summarized as "a professional photographer, two children under age 13, a user of the original Facebook and a Los Angeles-based actress and model." Though that motley crew sounds like a poor imitation of the lead characters in The Breakfast Club, their allegations are serious and they're asking for a jury trial to pursue damages and legal fees.

[Innovation] Facebook faces (another) challenge over users' privacy | csmonitor.com: not to long a go Face book made changes to its privacy policies, one of the results was that it changed the settings you had already chosen and defaulted them back to their choice of open access. My oppinion is that yes I make my choices, but I also expect to play on a level playing field if I chose to have a closed account with only my best friend on it, dont go changing my choices because you want my data

[TechNews AM] New Facebook Lawsuit: This Time, Over Online Privacy Laws ...: When you are Facebook and you have 250+ million users, increase the amount of lawsuits by a factor of 10 or so. Yes, Facebook has been sued once again, this time for allegedly misleading members on the use of their personal information and for violating California privacy laws.

[Partytow] OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government - Partytow: OpenID board member and Facebook employee David Recordon explained to us tonight that participating government sites are not allowed to pass personal information about users from one site to another, even though we’ll be logging in with the same accounts. Instead, when we authenticate ourselves with Google, Yahoo, Verisign or whoever our Identity Provider of choice is, that website will pass a different, unique URL to the government site we’re logging in to.

[Swiss DNA Bank] Swiss DNA Bank » Blog Archive » O Canada! True privacy love in all ...: One year ago an Internet policy group at the University of Ottawa filed a complaint about Facebook's privacy policies, which now resulted in Facebook having 12 months time to do something major about it. Maybe there's another easier way but I guess I was not Internet-savvy enough to figure it out.

[Privacy Digest] Facebook faces (another) challenge over users' privacy | Privacy ...: Privacy groups and some of the site’s own members have vigilantly monitored Facebook policies. When Facebook changed its terms of service earlier this year - a revision that appeared to give it broad ownership over users’ content even after they deleted their accounts - the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington threatened to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

[Online Business Opportunities Review] Facebook Benefits Businesses | Online Business Opportunities Review: In today's world, more and more people are becoming internet-savvy and they always want to stay connected online. According to recent news reports, as the Internet turns 40 since it first came a-buzz with users, almost a billion people are online worldwide. .... penny stocks. Tags. Contact Us | Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement Copyright © 2009 Online Business Opportunities Review. All Rights Reserved. Designed by Tunrkey Business Solutions.

[Fast Company] Canada Makes Facebook Rein In Its Freewheeling Privacy Settings ...: Specifically, Facebook's adjusting interface to include "new notifications," its making "additions to Facebook's Privacy Policy", and there are "technical changes designed to give people more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party applications." The tweaks are the result of an extended dialogue between the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Facebook's team, a dialogue that goes back over a year. The Canadian government just published a report "gratefully acknowledged Facebook's cooperation in the course of the investigation and commended Facebook for providing its users with extensive privacy settings." The report made some recommendations and now Facebook's implementing them.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Lawmakers consider clampdown on the way Internet marketers collect ...: Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said there had been little need for Congress to impose privacy protections on advertisers offline, since traditional media such as TV, radio and newspapers don't enable marketers to profile individual consumers as easily as the Internet does.

[Touchdowns & Fumbles] Touchdowns & Fumbles: VERITAS: TOUCHDOWN - PRIVACY COMMISSIONER ...: its platform over the next year, giving Facebook users the ability to pick and choose what information they want to share with both the Facebook platform and applications operating on it. Score a huge win for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa who submitted the original complaint instigating the review.

[Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets] Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets» The Geek, Restraining Orders ...: Solove, as I tend to read him, is trying to sort through the mess that is (American) privacy law and struggling (in many ways, successfully) to develop a legal-normative reading of privacy, whereas Nissembaum is playing the role of the philosopher and trying to develop a more nuanced understanding of privacy than is necessarily practical in a large legal context. Under her approach, I think that questions of damages can likely range more broadly than the victim in Solove’s world, but helpfully both would likely recognize a privacy violation should someone with a restraining order track or follow their victim throughout digital spaces.

[Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter] Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Facebook Hit with Privacy ...: I am a Facebook and My Space user and from what I understand...Facebook AND My Space can use your photos and other info as they please. You can make your profiles private so that only people you allow to be your friends can view your information...but Facebook and My Space admins can see and use any of it as per the agreement you sign.

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