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Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?' "And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information.
IKEA Facebook Scam
How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook - Facebo
With all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, many people are considering quitting the site altogether. If you're not ready to take it that far, here's how to avoid the privacy breaches without completely deleting your account and losing touch with your friends. We've all had that one friend who deactivated his/her Facebook and was never seen again, because no one could establish contact. As if the telephone, email, and IM were never invented, many people are at a loss as to how to contact you if your Facebook isn't an easy click away. Even if the situation isn't quite that dire, Facebook is still how a lot of people keep connected, and severing that connection completely is a big deal. But now, privacy-minded folks have many legitimate reasons you should quit Facebook (or reasons you should but can't go through with it ), the same thing is on everyone's mind: Is the grief of quitting worth avoiding future privacy breaches?
Facebook Open Graph
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections | Electro
"Connections." It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes.
When Facebook launched its Open Graph API and brought instant personalization to the web it probably didn’t expect users to revolt — but they are. In light of growing concerns around user privacy , Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee are attempting to mobilize a formal Facebook revolt with Quit Facebook Day . The purpose of the site is to encourage those “sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data” to quit the social networking site. Users can “commit to quit” with their Twitter handle or name and join the others publicly pledging to do so in unison.
Facebook Exodus Planned for May 31: Will You Quit?
Thank you for signing the petition. If you're on Facebook be sure to join the group: "Facebook, Respect my privacy!" Facebook's recent changes go too far. Protect your information by signing the petition : "Sites like Facebook must respect my privacy. They should not share information about me or my friends with other companies without my explicit permission"
Democracy in Action
We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data. What is it? Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG ) your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity.
