Introducing Graph Search Beta. By Tom Stocky and Lars Rasmussen Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected.
The main way we do this is by giving people the tools to map out their relationships with the people and things they care about. We call this map the graph. It’s big and constantly expanding with new people, content and connections. There are already more than a billion people, more than 240 billion photos and more than a trillion connections. Today we’re announcing a new way to navigate these connections and make them more useful. When Facebook first launched, the main way most people used the site was to browse around, learn about people and make new connections. Graph Search will appear as a bigger search bar at the top of each page. Graph Search and web search are very different. Another big difference from web search is that every piece of content on Facebook has its own audience, and most content isn’t public.
We’re very early in the development of Graph Search. What can I search for? Students force Facebook to cough up more user data — European technology news. Max Schrems. Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th. Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs.
Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook’s Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal — the threshold for triggering a vote. Europe Vs. Facebook is demanding sweeping changes to Facebook’s product rather than the small policy changes found in the proposal Today the one-week voting period opens on a set of a relatively benign changes and Facebook will notify users by web and mobile.
Users can check out the proposed changes to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Use Policy, and an explanation of the changes, then vote until 9am PST on June 8th. “I really don’t think any of our changes were controversial. This is only the second site governance vote in the history of Facebook. Schrems and Europe vs. By creating the “I oppose the changes” meme, Europe Vs. Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook. Max Schrems, the man who de-friended Facebook. Max Schrems at a press conference January 7 2012, in Vienna, Austria.
A law student from Vienna is accusing Facebook of contempt for Europe’s data protection laws. For the company, which wants to go public soon, the attention comes at a bad time. At some point Max Schrems wanted a precise answer. Writing to Facebook, he asked them for information on all the data he had stored on his account. The answer he got back was worse than he had feared: all the data he had ever deleted were still there. That was a year ago. At first, the young Austrian took it as a joke. A hero overnight The network probably initially underestimated the Austrian student, who filed his complaint exactly 22 times: on account of deleted data that were still being stored, on account of the company’s misleading terms and conditions, and on account of the automatic face recognition. Privacy advocates have been criticising the ‘privacy policy' of the social network for some time now. Irish keen to keep Facebook. Max Schrems: The Austrian Thorn In Facebook's Side.