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Time for Change Timeline says I have been a facebook member since 2006. When I click on the year 2006, it gives me a full-page summary of my facebook activity during that year, complete with photos, status updates, wall posts, and events. Facebook Faceoff: Counterpoint (9/29) | The Harvard Independent

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PTI Dec 24, 2011, 02.22pm IST NEW DELHI: Setting a deadline for 22 social networking sites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to remove all "anti-religious" or "anti-social" content, a Delhi court today directed the companies to file compliance reports by February 6. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar, who had on December 20 in a ex-parte order issued summons to the social networking websites, granted around one and half month for compliance of his order. Court asks 22 websites including Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove objectionable content by February 6 - The Economic Times

Feeling housebound by Facebook addiction? Facebook just released "Suggested Events," which uses your own check-in information to point out events you might want to go to in the real world. Suggested Events replaces the old Friends Events menu choice that was there before. We're not seeing this new Suggested Events feature on all our accounts — it might have something to do with whether you've checked in anywhere yet on Facebook , or it could be another Facebook slow rollout — but if you're one of the lucky ones so far, here's how to access it: Facebook Suggested Events Predicts Where You'll Want to Go

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MENLO PARK, California (AP) — Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook's "chat" messaging system. The service is the latest tool from Facebook aimed at improving safety on its site, which has more than 800 million users. APNewsBreak: Facebook aims to help prevent suicide

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Facebook Reaches Deal Over Deceptive Behavior Allegations WASHINGTON – Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information. The unflattering portrait of Facebook's privacy practices emerged Tuesday in a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that Facebook exposed details about users' lives without getting legally required consent. In some cases, the FTC charged, Facebook allowed potentially sensitive details to be passed along to advertisers and software developers prowling for customers. To avoid further legal wrangling, Facebook agreed to submit to government audits of its privacy practices every other year for the next two decades. The company committed to getting explicit approval from its users -- a process known as "opting in" -- before changing their privacy controls.

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is in talks with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle claims that it violated users’ privacy when it changed default privacy settings to disclose more information than was previously made public, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The proposed 20-year settlement would require Facebook to get express consent from users before sharing material posted under earlier, more restrictive terms, said the person, who declined to be identified because the settlement isn’t final. It would also compel an annual, independent review of Facebook’s privacy practices. Facebook to be in talks with FTC over privacy settings

(This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics. Adds Telefonos de Mexico SAB item to trademark section.) Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. lost a U.S. appeals court bid to stop Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s sales of a generic version of the Seasonique birth- control pill. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington yesterday affirmed a lower court ruling that let Watson enter the market even as it awaits the outcome of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Teva’s Duramed unit. Notice of the decision was posted on the court’s website. Teva, Facebook, Novartis, GE, Telecom: Intellectual Property

CIA is watching tweets, Facebook In the first report of its kind, the Associated Press has learned that the Central Intelligence Agency is following tweets, up to 5 million a day. “In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building... a team known affectionately as the ‘vengeful librarians’ also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms - anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly,” the AP reports . The agency's Open Source Center, as it is called, gathers information, often in a country’s native language, to get a picture of the mood of a region after a world event, or a prediction of what might come. The center followed Chinese-language tweets to find out China wasn’t pleased with Osama bin Laden’s death, for example, and knew months before that an uprising in Egypt was coming, though they couldn’t predict when.

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An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labor on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported. The Cairo court found that Ayman Yusef Mansur “intentionally insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule on Facebook,” the agency reported. The court said his insults were “aimed at the Noble Koran, the true Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and his family and Muslims, in a scurrilous manner,” the agency reported. Mansur was arrested in August after police tracked him down through his internet address. Egyptian law outlaws insults to religion. The law has been used in the past to try Shiite Muslims. Egyptian gets three years jail for Facebook Islam insult

(Updates with House panel’s vote in third paragraph.) Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- During the 1987 battle over Robert Bork’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, a Washington tabloid published Bork’s video rentals. The next year, Congress banned such disclosures without customer consent. That two-decade-old law is now the target of lobbying by online video provider Netflix Inc., which says the measure is blocking its deal with Facebook Inc. to let U.S. customers link their Netflix accounts to the world’s largest social network and share movies and television shows with friends. Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved a Netflix- backed bill that would revamp the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to allow consumers to provide one-time online consent to release rental data, paving the way for U.S. implementation of the Facebook deal. Netflix Wanting Facebook Link Seeks to Ease Disclosure Ban

Facebook has launched a new translation tool that lets you translate posts and comments directly inline on Facebook Pages. The service, which is powered by Microsoft's Bing Translator , means Facebook users can read Page content regardless of the language it is written in. If a comment posted on a Page is in a language that is different than the one your Facebook account is set to, a Translate button may show up just below it (beside the existing Like button). Clicking on the button will translate the comment to your account language. Facebook taps Microsoft Bing for Page content translation

Facebook has overhauled its Pages Insights analytics tool and added a new metric to gauge the health of a page: "People Talking About." That statistic, which users will see on Pages below the total number of "Likes," will be one of four tracked by Pages Insights. The idea is that users will understand a Page with a high People Talking About rating is one that has compelling content. Likewise, content creators will be motivated to make their Pages more comment-worthy. People Talking About (that might not be the final name for the metric; at press time, Facebook wasn't sure) will measure user-initiated activity related to a Page, including posting to a Page's Wall, "liking," commenting, sharing a Page post or content on the Page, answering a Question posed to fans, mentioning a Page, "liking" or sharing a deal or checking in at your Place. Facebook Launches New Metric: "People Talking About"

Why Facebook Is Becoming the Media World's Black Hole | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco As Facebook introduces "frictionless" media sharing, epic Timelines for every user and continuing "engagement" land-grabs beyond, Mark Zuckerberg's dorm-room project is becoming, quite simply, the media world's black hole, and effectively devaluing the rest of the non-Facebook web in the process. It's not always 'Sunny' on Facebook. To grasp exactly what Facebook is doing to the web ecosystem, it helps if you picture it as a real place. Imagine you're at a bar where all your friends hang out -- where everyone knows your name. For the sake of argument (and visualization), let's say it's the bar from "Cheers." Or maybe it's Paddy's Pub from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

Published: 4:23PM Monday September 26, 2011 Source: Fairfax Source: ONE News An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site. Facebook tracks users even after logging out | TECHNOLOGY News

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