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Lawmakers and privacy advocates are stepping up the pressure on the Obama administration to fill the five vacant seats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a panel created in 2004 to ensure that executive branch counterterrorism policies protect Americans' civil liberties. The board has been vacant since the end of the last administration, which is troubling, lawmakers say, given what intelligence officials say is the growing danger posed by homegrown terrorists. "It's important, especially as we ramp up on domestic intelligence issues, that we have an independent watchdog" focused on privacy and civil liberties, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), of the House Homeland Security Committee, said at a conference on intelligence reform this week. The White House is vetting someone for one of the three Democratic seats on the board, according to an administration official who said he could not be identified in discussing the vetting process.
Lawmakers, advocates push administration for appointments to privacy board
Facebook Self-Serve Ad Pricing Is Extremely Low -- This May Not Be A Huge Business After All
Foursquare continues to pick up momentum. It now has 20 million users, up from 15 million in December. What's more, user growth is accelerating; it took approximately 6 months for the app to gain 5 million users between June and December last year.
Data mining project benefits investigators, scares privacy experts - St. Petersburg Times
BOCA RATON — At any one time, some 750,000 pedophiles are prowling the Internet, the United Nations says. They might be lurking in chat rooms. Or swapping images of adults having sex with kids. It's a virtual epidemic of child pornography, and to fight it, law enforcement officers from all over are converging on a cavernous building in South Florida. Here they have access to the most advanced technology for finding pedophiles. But this isn't run by any government agency.Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I didn't like that I couldn't alter the Facebook Connect privacy settings for updates from Foursquare , an iPhone app that shares my location through a GPS-enabled city directory . It didn't make sense to me that Facebook Connect information was automatically visible to anyone who had access to posts on my "wall," whereas privacy settings on a third-party app embedded directly on my profile were much more fine-tuned, allowing me to restrict them to specific subsets of friends. I've been e-mailing back and forth with Facebook, and I've gotten some clarification on how the process works. Privacy controls for embedded apps aren't as simple as I'd thought.
Facebook app privacy: It's complicated | Webware - CNET
Facebook's Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users
This represents just the latest instance of Facebook violating the contract it holds with its users. This is no small matter, either. Lots of people will have very real and valid objections to this arbitrary change to what's public and what's private on Facebook. This guest post was written by Kaliya Hamlin, also known as Identity Woman , who has been working on cultivating open standards for user-centric identity since 2004. She co-founded, co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop , the primary venue for collaboration on identity standards amongst large Internet portals, large enterprise IT companies and small innovators.
THE SOCIAL-NETWORKING giant Facebook should be helping its 350 million members keep more of their information private. Embarrassment is only the most common affliction of those who unwisely posted compromising photos, personally attacked co-workers, or committed other social-networking faux pas. Many lost friends, job opportunities, and self-respect. Facebook, of course, profits from the greater exchange of information, through more clicks and more ads. So when users logged on last week and found an instructional “wizard’’ that forced them to check and, if they so desired, adjust the current state of their privacy preferences, it seemed at first that Facebook was sacrificing some ad opportunities for the greater good of its users.
Facebook’s privacy downgrade - The Boston Globe
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Magid: Facebook's new policy makes users think about privacy - San Jose Mercury News
Facebook users speak out against new privacy settings
The article or page you requested was not found. If this link was sent to you via e-mail or posted on another website, it was probably incorrectly formatted.Facebook just made one of the biggest changes to the site's user experience since the introduction of the News Feed three years ago. News Feed was the place in the very center of the site where all the activities of a user's friends were displayed in reverse chronological order. That feature is now called the Live Feed and the News Feed has become a filtered display of activity highlights instead . In September 2006 the News Feed was a radical idea; thousands of Facebook users revolted against the idea that all their friends would be shown every photo they uploaded, when their relationship status changed and other information as soon as it was available. Today we live in a different world.
Facebook's New NewsFeed: A Big Shot Fired in The War Against Information Overload
Facebook Sees Nearly 200% Visit Boost, While Twitter Traffic Also Soars
It's fitting that the world's largest social network would also receive the most traffic. Facebook netted 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among a HitWise survey of 155 social networking Websites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site's market share from September 2008. HitWise gauged the online traffic of 10 million U.S. Web users across 1 million Websites. Facebook, which crossed the 300 million member threshold one month ago, executed an impressive reversal on rival MySpace.
Facebook is no stranger to privacy problems. The company has come under fire for its use of ads , and has fallen victim to gaping security holes that reveal personal information users have elected to keep private. The latest embarrassment stems from the new version of the Facebook iPhone app, in which a bug is allowing users to access features that a Page's administrator had disabled. For example, Barack Obama 's Page understandably forbids Wall comments in order to keep people from posting offensive content or malicious links. It turns out that if you load the Page with the iPhone app, however, you can post anything you want.