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Facebook takedown followup: what happened, and what Facebook needs to fix
Facebook has reinstated a number of sites' Facebook pages that were taken down due to bogus copyright claims this week . The company issued an apology for the inconvenience and says that DMCA notice abuse is an issue that Facebook takes seriously, but serious questions still remain about the effectiveness of Facebook's process for dealing with complaints. "We have invested significant resources into creating a dedicated team that uses specialized tools, systems and technology to review and properly handle intellectual property notices.After reaching more than 10,000 members in few hours in light of his assassination by American forces in Pakistan Facebook deleted we are “ All Osama Bin Ladin” page . We do not know what is the excuse this time for deleting this page, is it call for violence? we did not notice any. And this excuse that any page that calls for violence should be banned is nonsense, because if that was the case, then Obama’s page on Facebook should be banned because it contains calls for violence. The case here is not whether Obama’s call for violence against US enemies is right or not.
Facebook Deletes “We are All Osama Bin Ladin” Page - ArabCrunch
Facebook cancels China activist’s account over fake identity issue - International Business Times
Want to connect with people on Facebook ? Well, you better ensure that you have used your legal identity to register, as the social media giant seems to be on a policing spree as far as the use of pseudonyms is concerned. The company has reportedly canceled the account of a popular blogger and online activist from China , Zhao Jing who was registered on Facebook as Michael Anti.
Egypt: Facebook Disables Popular Anti-Torture Page - Global Voices Advocacy
Update 1 : The deactivated page is back. According to an email received by the page admin , “ After reviewing your situation, we have reinstated the page, and you should now be able to see it online. ” a facebook representative said. Screenshot of the deactivated Facebook page - from Google Cache. On the evening of 25 November, Facebook.com disabled “ We Are All Khaled Said ” page which got more than 300,000 followers.
In early April, Engadget posted a short article confirming a rumor that Facebook would be using facial recognition to suggest the names of friends who appeared in newly uploaded photos. You’d be allowed to opt out of tagging, and only friends would be able to tag each other in albums. Nevertheless, a commenter beneath the story quipped , “Awesome! Now I can take pictures of cute girls at the grocery store or at the park, upload them and Facebook will tell me who they are! (I’m pretty sure that’s not [how] it works but I’m sure it will get there.)”
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PALO ALTO, CA—All 1,472 employees of Facebook, Inc. reportedly burst out in uncontrollable laughter Wednesday following Albuquerque resident Jason Herrick's attempts to protect his personal information from exploitation on the social-networking site. "Look, he's clicking 'Friends Only' for his e-mail address. Like that's going to make a difference!" howled infrastructure manager Evan Hollingsworth, tears streaming down his face, to several of his doubled-over coworkers. "Oh, sure, by all means, Jason, 'delete' that photo.
Entire Facebook Staff Laughs As Man Tightens Privacy Settings | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | The Guardian
Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'. Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
US govt seeks to violate #Facebook TOS by creating fake profiles http://bit.ly/iizs9l ...while FB ca
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Facebook's new Instant Personalization Program allows other sites to access your Facebook data and connect you with people on those sites. Not only can you turn this feature off, but you can keep sites from retrieving your Facebook information with Adblock filters. Not only does Facebook have an agreement with sites like Yelp and Pandora, but we've already seen that Facebook bugs can cause other, non-compliant sites to add applications to your profile , as long as you're logged into Facebook while you browse. Reader Saudrapsmann shows us how to keep this from happening in the future:slight paranoia: More private data leakage at Facebook
Via an anonymous commenter at the Freedom to Tinker blog, I discovered a recent paper from some researchers at Microsoft Research and the Max Plank Institute, analyzing online behavioral advertising. The most interesting bit is the following text: [W]e set up six Facebook profiles to check the impact of sexual-preference: a highly-sensitive personal attribute. Two profiles (male control) are for males interested in females, two (female control) for females interested in males, and one test profile of a male interested in males and one of a female interested in females.
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yesterday, Facebook introduced Places, a new location feature that competes with popular services like Foursquare, Google Latitude, Loopt, and Gowalla. Places allows Facebook users to 'check in' to real world locations and to tag their friends as present (similar to how Facebook allows tagging in photos). Everyone who is checked in to the location can see who else is listed as "Here Now" for a few hours after they check in.
Facebook shoves your face into creepy 'sponsored stories' in 2012 • The Register
A personalised ad party ... if you Like it, bitch Facebook will begin adding photos of its users to third-party adverts appearing in users' news feeds come early next year, so if you're the sort who's a bit free with your thumbs-up button, there's no way out of being featured alongside a tin of baked beans or a pair of knickers on the social network. The Mark Zuckerberg-run company will set its "Sponsored Stories" feature as default for its 800 million-strong stalkerbase. "Starting early next year, we will gradually begin showing Sponsored Stories in News Feed. Our goal is to do this thoughtfully and slowly," a Facebook spokeswoman told The Register .The Washington Post Social Reader allows you to read news from the Washington Post, plus various other sources. The app's homepage states that "once you're using the app, the stories you read will be instantly shared with your friends , and your friends' reads will be shared with you." The emphasis is ours, because you should be aware that everything you read is sent straight to your Facebook news feed. The Guardian app, which you can add to Facebook by clicking here , is slicker. The design of the app feels very much like The Guardian's actual website.
"Read" in Facebook - It's Not a Button, So Be Careful What You Click!
How to Get More Privacy From Facebook's New Privacy Controls | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today, Facebook announced new privacy controls and settings in response to the tremendous public outcry over its April changes. Here we explain step-by-step how to take advantage of the new settings and maximize your privacy on Facebook. This is important because you must take affirmative steps to adjust your settings in order to take full advantage of the revised privacy practices. While some information, such as your name, profile picture and gender, will remain publicly available, these steps are designed to provide as much privacy as Facebook's new system allows.Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently by a Norwegian consumer protection agency . We're glad to see Facebook is attempting to respond to those privacy criticisms with these changes, which are going live this evening. Unfortunately, several of the claimed privacy "improvements" have created new and serious privacy problems for users of the popular social network service.
Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Facebook has begun to accelerate the web-wide roll-out of the Instant Personalization program. The number of partner websites recently jumped from three to five, and a partnership with early stage venture firm YCombinator is set to greatly expand that number in the coming months.[1] Instant Personalization allows a partner website to automatically learn the identity of a visitor (as well as some data about them) without any explicit user action, provided that the visitor is a logged-in Facebook user. It is probably the most privacy-intrusive change introduced by the company this year, and could lead to a profound change in how the web works and is perceived. Facebook’s superficially reassuring line is that only data that is already public is shared with partner sites.