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.
In fact, the apps could access nearly all of users’ personal data – data the apps didn’t need.Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences – for example with “Friends Only.” In fact, selecting “Friends Only” did not prevent their information from being shared with third-party applications their friends used.Facebook had a “Verified Apps” program & claimed it certified the security of participating apps. I deleted my Facebook account. Today I joined a growing number of dissatisfied former Facebook users by deleting my account.
For me, the last straw was when Facebook removed the “interests” section from my profile because I wasn’t willing to link those interests to advertisements for things I was interested in. Facebook made this creepy decision because it doesn’t want the same things that I do. Facebook wants to get paid, and since you and I can’t pay for Facebook, we’re not Facebook’s customers. We’re the products being sold.
Here’s what you can look forward to in Facebook’s coming years: At their f8 developer’s conference in April, Facebook gave location-aware ID badges with RFID chips in them to attendees, which reported their whereabouts to their Facebook profiles. Perhaps it’s worth explaining why privacy matters to me in the first place. Watch someone long enough, and you’ll find something to arrest - or just blackmail - with. Not only does that make Facebook act weird, but it makes us act weird too. How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account.
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Tips Warnings Article Info Featured Article. Glitch Brings New Worries About Facebook’s Privacy. Facebook's Timeline will be boon for hackers. Facebook's new Timeline will make it even easier for criminals and others to mine the social network for personal information they can use to launch malicious attacks and steal passwords, a researcher said today. Timeline, which Facebook unveiled yesterday at a developer conference and plans to roll out to users in a few weeks, summarizes important past events in a one-page display. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Timeline is "the story of your life," That has experts at U.K. -based Sophos concerned. "Timeline makes it a heck of a lot easier [for attackers] to collect information on people," said Chet Wisniewski, a Sophos security researcher.
Cybercriminals often unearth personal details from social networking sites to craft targeted attacks, noted Wisniewski, and Timeline will make their job simpler. "And Facebook encourages people to fill in the blanks [in the Timeline]," said Wisniewski, referring to the new tool's prompting users to add details to sections that are blank. 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. In the past nine months it has doubled in size and is now the number one most visited Web site in the world, surpassing Google. Facebook’s motto is “Making the world open and connected,” where a lone voice can have a powerful impact, as evidenced this year by one activist’s post on Facebook that sparked a demonstration of 12 million people against the Revolutionary Forces of Columbia (FARC), which had been terrorizing Colombian citizens for years.
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.” 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. " Facebook faces severe fines if they do not comply with the order to shutdown their auto-tagging system in Germany. Facebook has rejected the claim. To be clear: the main problem does not lie in the 'automatic' recognition of people.
Soziale Netzwerke: Facebook löscht nicht zuverlässig | Digital. Ein Wiener Student will sehen, welche Daten er in drei Jahren bei Facebook hinterlassen hat. Das Ergebnis: 1.200 DIN-A4-Seiten und einige unangenehme Überraschungen. Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook Google + Seit drei Jahren ist Max Schrems Mitglied bei Facebook. Schrems ist Initiator der Gruppe "Europe versus Facebook" . Anzeige Um die Forderung nach Transparenz zu untermauern, haben Schrems und seine Mitstreiter ihre Nutzungsdaten von Facebook eingefordert. PrivatsphäreVernetzungProfil Privatsphäre Die 2004 gestartete Seite Facebook will nach Aussage ihre Gründers Mark Zuckerberg die Welt offener und vernetzter machen. Vernetzung Aufgrund der Struktur der Seite ist es jedoch möglich, Schlüsse über jemanden zu ziehen, die er so nicht beabsichtigt hatte.
Profil Wer Facebook nutzen, aber so wenig wie möglich über sich verraten will, sollte beispielsweise keinen Gruppen beitreten und keine persönlichen Interessen wie Musik angeben. Personal Data Requests. Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here's How to Stop It. Disconnect.