Facebook has quietly pulled its contentious Find Friends Nearby feature, though the social network refuses to confirm that the decision was in response to concerns about the swiftly-dubbed "stalker tool." Instead, the site claims that Find Friends Nearby was never intended for widespread public use anyway, and that taking it down is a regular part of its own internal testing.
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‘privacy’ Stories
Google denies Street View charges as senator snipes at spy planes
Last week, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office reopened its Street View privacy investigation following the FCC’s findings in the United States. In a letter penned to Google, the ICO believes it was misled, with Google stating at the time that it wasn’t a deliberate data collection attempt and that no engineers had knowledge of the issue. Google has now responded to questions laid out by the ICO in the latest letter.
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iOS 6 makes apps ask for permission before accessing your data
When you download an application from the iTunes store today for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, that app is not allowed to access your address book without you saying so - in iOS 6, that ability is expanded drastically. While the application known as Path started a wildfire several months ago when it was revealed to be accessing user contacts without their permission, it's a relatively giant waterfall of permissions you'll be working with later this year in the next generation in Apple's mobile operating system. The iDevice software known as iOS 6 was revealed this week at WWDC 2012 with a Beta release out now.
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Google Street View privacy case reopened in UK
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office has reopened its investigation into the Street View data collection that occurred between 2007 and 2010. In a letter to the search company, the watchdog company lays out how the case needs to be reopened following the FCC’s findings. Google told the watchdog in the past that it had no knowledge of the data snooping taking place, with the FCC finding evidence suggesting the opposite.
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LinkedIn: New security enhancements in pipeline
LinkedIn has promised new security features above and beyond a switch to salting users' passwords, as it continues to recover from the hack which saw 6.5m encrypted credentials leak from the site. "We continue to execute on our security roadmap, and we’ll be releasing additional enhancements to better protect our members" the business-centric social network wrote on its official blog, while continuing to insist that there is still no evidence of any member accounts being breached.
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Last.fm and LinkedIn clinch it: My scorched-earth policy
LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm: three sites with little in common beyond, this week, the painful and embarrassing task of telling users that their personal information may well have been compromised. It’s an increasingly widespread chore, too, as we drop our details into just about any new service that catches our eye. It’s about time for a new attitude toward online history: a digital scorched-earth policy, as it were. Try, certainly, but then destroy.
Proposed Do Not Track draft kills IE10 DNT default
Recently, Microsoft was bragging that Internet Explorer 10 would be the first browser to come with Do Not Track turned on by default. Do Not Track is aimed at preventing advertisers and ads from tracking a user's navigation on the Internet. Oddly, while Microsoft was touting that Do Not Track was on by default in its coming browser, it also admitted it currently didn't follow DNT signals sent from its own browser or others.
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University of Cambridge conducts largest-ever password study
Do you have a weak password? Probably. Even if you think your password can't be hacked, there might be a good chance that a lot of other people thought the exact same thing and chose a very similar password. These are the results from Joseph Bonneau at the University of Cambridge, who analyzed passwords from more users than any other password-related study.
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Do Not Track announced automatic in IE10
Microsoft has let it be known that their final release of the Internet Explorer 10 web browser software will have "Do Not Track" activated right out of the box. This information has upset advertisers across the board as web ad targeting - based on your online activities - is one of the current mainstays of big-time advertiser profits. What Do Not Track, or DNT does is to send out signal from your web browser, Internet Explorer 10 in this case, to websites letting them know that the user refuses to be seen in such a way.
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Netflix promises to delete rental history after a year
Netflix cares about your privacy and has agreed that if you unsubscribe from the site, any rental activity on your account that is more than a year old will no longer be tied to you, meaning no one - not even Netflix - will be able to look back at your past movie choices, and after you've been gone from Netflix for a year there will be no way to pull any rental data. Okay, the latter part of that is true, but Netflix doesn't care about your privacy.
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Google Street View case may see further action in UK
The Street View saga continues tor Google. Following the FCC investigation in which the search company was fined $25,000, a UK watchdog has said that it intends to look further into the issue. Google agreed to audits by the Information Commissioner’s Office, and the agency has now said that it intends to further look into the case following the FCC’s report last month.
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“Bat-Signal for the Internet” teased by “Internet Defense League”
This week you'll find that no greater defense against those that would have their evil way with the web can be found than the "Bat-Signal for the Interet" as teased by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian. This fellow is one of several internet activists working together to protest web-containing bills such as SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA, three of the more famous bits of legislation to have popped up in Washington and abroad this past several months. To defend said internet, Ohanian and friends will be working in what they call the "Internet Defense League" with which they intend to be taken entirely seriously.
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