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privacy
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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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Google Has A Shiny New Mobile Payment Service
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.
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EU Trying To Enforce Enhanced Privacy From Facebook
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Union is attempting to establish the “right to be forgotten online,” as a legislative response to embarrassing old data – risque photographs, stupid statuses – that refuse to disappear. The proposed bit of legislation would enforce higher privacy settings and offer greater user control.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Sell Your Private Info…Again
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Facebook programmers are busily working away on new features that give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers. Now isn’t that charming?
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