Facebook’s New Way Of Using You As Free Advertising (& How To Stop It) [News] Actions such as checking into places, clicking “Like” on a page, application interactions and posting on Facebook pages can be then used as marketing ammo, sending targeted recommendations to your friends featuring your name and profile picture. Users who are featured in the adverts won’t be paid a penny. This new way for advertisers to target their audience on a startlingly personal level quietly launched in January, and (in a move that’s angered many) each Facebook user’s account, by default, allows this to happen.
FTC Announces Settlement With Facebook–Imposes New Express Consent Requirements for Certain Sharing of Information | The Lares Institute The FTC announced today that it had settled a matter with Facebook related to its privacy practices. Among the allegations made by the FTC in the complaint were: In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private – such as their Friends List – was made public. They didn’t warn users that this change was coming, or get their approval in advance.Facebook represented that third-party apps that users’ installed would have access only to user information that they needed to operate. The proposed consent decree requires Facebook to not make misrepresentations regarding a number of topics, including: A. its collection or disclosure of any covered information; B. the extent to which a consumer can control the privacy of any covered information maintained by Respondent and the steps a consumer must take to implement such controls; C. the extent to which Respondent makes or has made covered information accessible to third parties;
Armed With Facebook 'Likes' Alone, Researchers Can Tell Your Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation - Rebecca J. Rosen But the deeper aspects of your personality remain hard to detect. Students in a health education class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, submit their personality problems to a panel, which leads a class discussion. The girl in the foreground is the subject of discussion. Have you Facebook liked The Godfather, The Daily Show, "Morgan Freeman's Voice," To Kill a Mockingbird, and (bizarrely) curly fries? With remarkable accuracy, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Microsoft have been able to discern people's gender, sexuality, age, race, and political affiliation, based solely on their Facebook likes. The authors, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel, say the results demonstrate "how accurate and potentially intrusive such a predictive analysis can be." The most easily predictable variables were ethnicity -- underscoring the segregation that runs through society, online and off -- and gender. The case of this new study is quite the same.
"How To Bullshit Your Way Through Any Essay" by K W Schroeder If there is one thing college kids neglect the most, besides basic diet and hygiene, it’s the homework assignment essay. Hastily written and utterly unedited the night before it’s due, the modern essay has become something of a nightmare for lackadaisical college students. But writing an essay that seems like it was written by someone with more than a double-digit IQ is not nearly as difficult as it seems, I assure you. Even the laziest Guitar Hero II god can whiz through an essay that reads like it was written by F. Scott Motherfucking Fitzgerald. What seems difficult and scary is actually as simple and accessible as you can want. 1)The introductory paragraph. 2)The thesis. 3)Topic sentences. 4)In-text quotes and citations. 5)The conclusion. Slap some page numbers on that bitch and load a bowl—your essay is done.
8 Steps to Facebook Photo Privacy, According to Facebook Engineer (We're Still Confused) Let's get this out of the way first: yes, we found this on Quora, the Q&A service poised for media overhype as the second coming of Twitter or blogging or journalism or whatever. But it was an interesting nugget of information from someone in the know and seemed worthy of sharing. According to Justin Mitchell, an engineer on Facebook Photos, photo privacy on the social network is complex. "Really complex," he says. Is A Facebook Photo Visible? The list below, said Mitchell, is a checklist where the first item for which the condition is met will determine the visibility of a photo posted to Facebook (profiles only, though, not Pages). This is what he wrote: Is it your photo? There is already some debate on the thread about whether or not this list is 100% accurate, but since it's coming from someone at Facebook who would know, we believe it is. Online Privacy Too Complex, Please Give Up Can the average end user read that checklist and really understand the nature of their photos' privacy? ?
How Facebook Betrayed Users and Undermined Online Privacy | Media August 5, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. In just six years Facebook has crossed the threshold of 500 million users. But along with its policy of openness and potential for social change, Facebook has repeatedly come under fire for its lax policies toward the privacy of its members. Behind the Wall Facebook members have a “wall” where they can post pictures and information (essentially their own web page), chat with each other, and read the latest on everyone in “The Feed.” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has often claimed to be a champion of privacy and promised, “we will never sell your information.” Ironically, Facebook has made an international impact it had not intended. The Beacon Fastbook first aroused controversy on its violations of privacy with its use of web beacons. Lawsuits were filed, and even MoveOn moved into the issue. Instant Personalization But the storm was only beginning to build.
Digital dualism denialism We talk a lot about “being online” and “being offline” or “going online” and “going offline,” but what do those terms mean? The distinction between online and offline is an outdated holdover from twenty years ago, when “going online,” through America Online or Prodigy or Compuserve, was like “going shopping.” It was an event with clear demarcations, in time and space, and it usually comprised a limited and fairly routinized set of activities. As Net access has expanded, to the point that, for many people, it is coterminous with existence itself, the line between online and offline has become so blurred that the terms have become useless or, worse, misleading. When we talk about being online or being offline these days, we’re deluding ourselves. That, anyway, is the argument that some writers at the blog Cyborgology have been making over the past couple of years. Some have a bias to see the digital and the physical as separate; what I am calling digital dualism. Photo by Florian.
How To… Embed This Infographic <a href= "><img src=" title="10 How Tos" alt="How To Infographic" border="0" class="nopin" /></a><br />Source: <a href=' title='Interesting Facts'><a href=' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out</a></a> 1) How to drastically increase the life of your shaving razor Before or after you shave (I prefer before so that the blades are dry), place your jeans on a hard flat surface; then run the razor up the pant legs about 10-15 times quickly; then repeat running it down the pant legs 10-15 times quickly. The threads on the jeans then will very effectively both fix any tiny bends in the blades that inevitably happen and will also sharpen the blades on your shaver cartidge. 2) How to make your teeth whiter Baking soda makes a good teeth whitener. 1.
Give Me My Data | A Facebook application to reclaim your information Another data protection authority says Facebook's facial recognition feature violates European data protection law On the 2nd of August 2011 the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has called on Facebook to delete the feature on the social networking site that automatically recognizes facial features and "tags" users when others upload photos of them. According to the local German data protection authority the feature is a violation of local and European data protection laws, and Facebook should adapt the feature to European data protection law or suspend the use of the facial recognition technology. The Commissioner calls the facial recognition technology a "serious interference with the informational self-determination of a person. Even a company that operates globally must respect that." EPIC alleged that "users could not reasonably have known that Facebook would use their photos to build a biometric database in order to implement a facial recognition technology under the control of Facebook." This blog post is also available in Dutch at the EMSOC-website.
Developing Minds & Digital Media (DM2) | The Good Project With funding from The James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation, the Developing Minds and Digital Media (DM2) Project explores the intersection of human development and digital media in both cognitive and social domains. We seek to identify how today’s young people differ from youth who came of age before cell phones, Facebook, and Twitter. Our research involves three strands: qualitative interviews and focus groups with professionals who have worked with youth for over 20 years; examination of secondary data sources; and content analyses of young people’s creative writing and artwork. In the first phase of our project, we conducted interviews with long-standing educators to cull their observations about how current students may be different from the students they taught in the pre-digital era. In phase two, we conducted focus groups with other professionals who work with youth, including camp directors, psychologists and psychoanalysts, and religious/spiritual leaders.