FB to face Class Action in Australia. A Deeper Look At Facebook’s Graph Search. Not long after Facebook announced graph search, many people were mystified as to what the product was and how it could be used.
Facebook invited a few journalists behind the curtain Thursday to discover just what makes graph search tick. The answer, naturally, is Unicorn. As Facebook has more than 1 billion monthly active users and 240 billion photos, with 350 million photos, 2.7 billion likes, and 2.5 billion items of information shared each day, there has to be an efficient way to search through all that. What makes graph search unique is a program called Unicorn. Facebook software engineer Mike Curtiss notes that it’s similar to a standard search engine, but different because it supports multihop queries issued in a series of steps.
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Why Banning Facebook In Your Workplace Is a Stupid Move. The work environment has drastically changed over the last few decades and as more people spend their work days in front of a computer, more employers want to make sure those hours aren't spent on social media.
Liking, sharing and commenting aren’t allowed in one out of five workplaces as many employers block access to Facebook on company computers, finds New York-based research firm Statista. But does banning social media at work really boost productivity or does it hurt morale? USA to Google, Facebook, Microsoft: No, you can’t tell users we’re spying on them. How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company?
Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. Register now and save $200! The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today opposing tech companies’ bid to disclose to their users that the government is spying on their data.
Proposed Updates to our Governing Documents. Facebook: Governments demanded data on 38K users. Prosecutors: 3 teens posted taped sex assaults of girl, 12, on Facebook. Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said.
Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held in lieu of $900,000 bail in a hearing today before Criminal Court Judge James Brown, said Cook County state's attorney spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. The three were charged as adults. The assaults took place about 3:30 p.m.
Privacy Nudges for Social Media: An Exploratory Facebook Study. Study Finds that 81% of Lawyers Use Evidence From Facebook & Other Social Sites. April 19, 2013Tim Visited 53 times , 2 Visits today At this point in the history of social media, virtually everyone understands that what they say or do online can come back to haunt them.
A shocking statistic was revealed this week by The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. They found that 81 percent of their members had used evidence from Facebook and other social networking sites. The PR Lawyer: Facebook Graph Search – Are You Ready? Big Brother is Watching You. Facebook unveiled Graph Search, the latest approach to search for information on its social networking platform.
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_cypherpunks_: THIS IS WHAT # FB privacy hoax. Libel claims on social media. David Rosen – Head of litigation and specialist in fraud law Author: David Rosen Let me start by saying that there is nothing wrong whatsoever in Liking, favouriting, posting, tweeting, or retweeting this blogpost.
You can rely upon what I am saying up to a certain extent. It all depends upon what you say, how you say it, when you say it, what it refers or alludes to, and in what context such words are being said. ‘Offensive’? The terms, ‘offensive’ and ‘abusive’, are treated differently in social media platforms. This blogpost focuses upon defamatory comments written and published on social media platforms. We have heard over the past few weeks in the British News of those who wish to protect their names on social media platforms. Does everyone now understand and accept that labelling people of terrible things, which is unfounded, is wrong?
Allegory and satire play a very important role in the development of society and our understanding and treatment of social responsibility. Guilty Plea in $13M Facebook, Groupon Securities and Wire Fraud Case. A former Chairman of the the Advisory Board of a professional mutual fund pleaded guilty today in federal court to a series of charges in a $13 million conspiracy to defraud in investors by falsely claiming that Praetorian Global Fund Ltd. privately owned pre-IPO Facebook and Groupon stock before each of the social media start-ups went public.
In reality, the British Virgin Islands-based fund did not. According to documents in the case, Mattera spent nearly $4 million of approximately $13 million illegally acquired in the conspiracy so that he and his family could have the accoutrements of a luxurious life: buying jewelry, expensive cars, and interior decorating projects.
FB to log users' searches and track their real world purchases. FB private messages on Timeline. FB Suspends FacialRec in EU. FB Beacon settlment. Killer hired on FB. FB to gve access to users data. Facebook's privacy policy explained. Check out the full Terms & Conditions archive.
Welcome to the first edition of Terms & Conditions, a weekly column where we break down the tangled mess of online sites’ and services’ terms of service, privacy policies, and other lawyerly mumbojumbo, into language anyone can understand. This week, we’re tackling a doosey: Facebook’s privacy policy, also known as the “Data Use Policy.” Given its history of brushing aside users’ privacy concerns, Facebook has broken its Data Use Policy into multiple parts, in an apparent attempt to make it easier to understand.
It has also excluded many of the enigmatic legal phrases often used in privacy policies. Still, at about 8,700 words, the document remains nearly impenetrable.
Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan. Midsize businesses face enterprise-caliber threats Government-funded black boxes that monitor the UK's internet traffic are not "the cornerstone" of the Home Office's web super-snoop plan, a top spook has told MPs and peers.
Ex-MI6 man Charles Farr, who heads up the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, dismissed claims that Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) probes are the "central plank" of the government's Communications Data Bill currently being scrutinised by Parliament. Instead, he insisted that cooperation with communications service providers (CSPs) such as Google and Facebook was key to the proposed surveillance legislation.
Facebook Tagged With $15B Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit On Eve Of IPO. What has this world come to when Facebook can’t even enjoy its initial public offering? On the eve of the long-awaited IPO, the social network was the target of a $15 billion class-action suit that consolidated 21 claims of invasion of privacy by tracking Internet usage. Bloomberg reported that the complaint was filed yesterday in Federal Court in San Jose, Calif., covering alleged violations that took place between May 2010 and September 2011. David Straite, a partner at Stewarts Law, counsel for some of the plaintiffs, told Bloomberg his firm is exploring ways to add Facebook users from outside of the U.S. to the suit, adding via email: This is not just a damages action, but a groundbreaking digital privacy rights case that could have wide and significant legal and business implications. Facebook Spokesman Andrew Noyes told Bloomberg via email that the claims are without merit and the company will contest them.
Facebook hit with $15bn privacy lawsuit ahead of stock market debut.
Facebook: A Profile of its 'Friends' FB valuation & IPO. New Examples of Facebook Password Demands, Facebook's Response, and the Need for a New Law. Today Facebook weighed in on the recently reported problem of employers demanding job applicants to share their username and passwords during the application process. In a note on their Facebook and privacy page, Chief Privacy Officer (Policy) Erin Egan wrote: We don't think employers should be asking prospective employees to provide their private information and communications just to get a job. And as the friend of a user, you shouldn't have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don't know and didn't intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job. Facebook clarifies breastfeeding photo policy. Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online. Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.
The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," but said it's currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they "deleted" from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link. The problem: "deleted" photos never go away When we first investigated this phenomenon in 2009, we discovered that photos "deleted" from Facebook seemingly never go away if you have a direct link to the image file on Facebook's servers. But when we followed up on the story more than a year later, our "deleted" photos were still accessible via direct link.
Selling user data to advertisers is legitimate, watchdog says in Facebook audit report. The finding was one of a number detailed by the ODPC in a report into its recent audit of Facebook Ireland's privacy policies and practices. Facebook Ireland has responsibility for all Facebook users outside of the USA and Canada. "Facebook Ireland provides a service that is free to the user. Its business model is based on charging advertisers to deliver advertisements which are targeted on the specific interests disclosed by users. This basic 'deal' is acknowledged by the user when s/he signs up to [the site] and agrees to the statement of rights and responsibilities and the related data use policy," Gary Davis, deputy Irish Data Protection Comissioner, said in the audit report (149-page / 3.42MB PDF). "A key focus of the audit was the extent to which the 'deal' could reasonably be described as meeting the requirements of fair collection and processing under the Data Protection Acts," said Davis, who led the audit.
Court Indicates Facebook May Be Violating Your Publicity Rights With Sponsored Stories. Because Facebook does so many things that aren't in users' interests, their "Sponsored Stories" program barely registers. Nevertheless, Sponsored Stories demonstrates why many people are burned out on Facebook. Facebook collects user preferences through its semantically ambiguous "like" button and then uses that data to show ads to the users' friends with a seeming endorsement. Using my preferences does little to advance my relationship with my friends, but the implicit endorsement is designed to get my friends to investigate the ads, increasing the advertiser's credibility and Facebook's profits.
So Sponsored Stories creates a zero-sum game: I, as a user, probably don't get any value from the public presentation of my implicit endorsement (if anything, it might hurt my position with my friends), but Facebook and its advertisers benefit from it. To me, this marketplace response is adequate. Article III Standing.