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Article | 18/12/2009 Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet
Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data an...
Article | 18/12/2009 Privacy groups bring Facebook complaints to FTC
Ten privacy and consumer groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. Federal Trade Co...
Article | 16/12/2009 ComScore: Facebook breaks 100M US unique visitor mark
Facebook's staggering usage growth continues unabated, as the company surpassed the 100 million U.S. unique visitor milestone in November, the first t...
Article | 16/12/2009 Facebook testing tool to push updates onto Twitter
Facebook and its social networking compatriot Twitter are jointly taking new steps to help users share information.
Article | 15/12/2009 Facebook and Google: Contrasts in privacy
The headlines recently have been dominated with news of online privacy. Facebook has implemented changes that affect the privacy of status updates, an...
Article | 15/12/2009 New Facebook privacy choices help business users
Facebook's new privacy controls make it easy for users to present different information to business contacts and personal friends, but only if the use...
Article | 15/12/2009 Bank's antifraud tactics stun security expert: How much do they know?
Checking out of a Hilton hotel in London, security expert Roger Thompson was told his Visa card had been declined due to suspicions it was stolen, a s...
Article | 15/12/2009 Facebook privacy: Zuckerberg's profile unzipped
How much personal information can you glean from Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's profile? That depends on when you happened to be viewing i...
Article | 12/12/2009 Facebook changes privacy settings yet again
Facebook has again changed how it describes its new privacy options, which began rolling out to the service's 350 million users just two days ago. The...
Article | 10/12/2009 Facebook users speak out against new privacy settings
Many Facebook users expressed anger at the site Wednesday for changing privacy settings, which they say caused personal information to be inadvertentl...
Article | 10/12/2009 Facebook simplifies privacy options
Following through on plans announced a few months ago, Facebook is rolling out changes on Wednesday to its privacy settings intended to make them simp...
Article | 9/12/2009 Telstra introduces free Facebook alerts
Telstra has launched a free SMS service that lets customers receive Facebook notifications via text messages.
Article | 8/12/2009 Facebook forms board to improve safety
Facebook is setting up a new advisory board to improve user safety on its social networking site, it said on Sunday.
Article | 8/12/2009 Facebook users fall for rubber duck's friend request
Facebook users haven't learned to keep their personal information private, a security researcher said today after his company conducted a test that se...
Article | 26/11/2009 Porn plus Facebook can lead to embarrassment, perhaps worse
The mechanism behind a click-jacking attack that was spread by luring in Facebook users with a link to a porn site that has the potential to do more d...