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The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy
Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features . And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends’ activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as they’re consuming media.TimeLine : la machine à voyager dans le temps de Facebook - Web 1,2,3ElectronLibre.info
C’est le grand bouleversement chez Facebook qui a annoncé hier des nouveautés en pagaille lors de sa conférence f8. De nouvelles activités multimédia mais aussi une métamorphose totale des « profils » destinés à se muer en « Timelines » éternelles.
Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation
The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook.
It’s been all change for the last couple of weeks on Facebook and one group of people who are starting to suffer are brands and businesses. The new changes to subscribing, timelines and friend lists mean that business pages are barely showing up in user’s feeds any more.
Facebook change the platform to make it impossible for businesses
With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy | Poynter.
Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it.
Privacy groups ask FTC for Facebook investigation too | ZDNet
10 public-interest groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Facebook’s various business practices. This demand comes right after two similar ones this week: two US congressmen asked the FTC to investigate how Facebook’s cookies behave, and Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has agreed to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook . Given that the social network’s international headquarters is in Dublin, the latter is the more serious one as the larger majority of the site’s users could be affected.
Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media. You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala . When Facebook unveiled Timeline last week, many users were struck by the idea of humanizing your profile by summarizing your life and connections.
Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands
Privacy advocates are asking the FTC to investigate the privacy implications of its Timeline and cookie use. (Justin Sullivan - GETTY IMAGES) The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 10 other privacy and civil rights advocacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to “investigate the extent of the harm to consumer privacy and safety” in the company’s use of cookies and its proposed changes to its site.
Privacy advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook - Post Tech - The Washington Post
Europeans to Facebook: Where's My Data? - Digits - WSJ
A self-described “guerilla” organization of students from Austria dubbed Europe v.
Hide the Past Before Opening your Facebook Profile to Subscribers
To prevent such a situation, you may either carefully review the privacy settings of every single thing that you have ever shared / written on Facebook or you can choose to play extra safe and make all your past activity visible to “friends” only before opening the profile to public subscribers.The Meaning Machine - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Internet users once stalked off into the cyberfrontier looking for transcendence.Facebook isn't known for respecting the privacy or rights of its users, this is nothing new, but it looks like Zuckerberg may have to anticipate a kick in the teeth. That would be courtesy of European Data Protection , forcing Facebook to become a little more transparent over how much it holds on individuals. Many people probably think that Facebook is immune from having to abide by the EU data laws.
Live in Europe? Force Facebook to give you back your data - Facebook Ireland means it's liable | TechEye
The New Facebook: A Timeline for Personal Discovery and Storytelling Brian Solis
“For the first time ever in a single day we had 500 million people use Facebook” – Mark ZuckerbergWhen you click a Facebook “Like” button on other Web sites to tell your friends about a cool band, favorite political candidate or yummy cake recipe, you may know that you are also giving intelligence to Facebook the company, which makes money through targeted advertising.
As 'Like' Buttons Spread, So Do Facebook's Tentacles - NYTimes.com
Hacker Nik Cubrilovic is reporting on his blog that Facebook can still track the websites you visit even after you have logged out of the social networking site.