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Lack of Facebook “hide from search results” no reason to panic

, Jan 18th 2013 Discuss [4]

This week we’re hearing a lot of talk about how the upcoming Graph Search inside Facebook will be un-privatizing us once again – let’s talk about why that’s not true. In a report in Ars Technica they note how once Graph Search is turned on for the masses, information you’d previously had hidden from search results will become public. There’s also a post on Quartz citing a segment in the Facebook Privacy Policy which interprets a “hiding from timeline” note as Facebook admitting it wont hide anything no matter how hard you try – that’s simply not true.

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Researchers use the Internet and anonymous genomes to identify individuals

, Jan 17th 2013 Discuss [1]

In a world dominated by the instant availability of digital information, social profiles, and constant connection to the proverbial hivemind, privacy is more of an issue than it has ever been. While many users are ready to pounce on the latest Facebook privacy blunder or diligently request that their data be removed from people search websites, there's one area of privacy that has been all but overlooked: DNA. Researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research demonstrated how they were able to identify anonymous study participants using nothing more than their genomes and the Internet. Read The Full Story

California Attorney General issues mobile privacy recommendations report

, Jan 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has issued Privacy on the Go, a report on mobile privacy recommendations aimed at developers and mobile-related companies, such as carriers. The guidelines are another step in the state's push on digital privacy, and can be downloaded as a PDF from the California Attorney General's website. These guidelines are the first of its kind in the United States. Read The Full Story

Foursquare makes Privacy tweaks, wary of Instagram-style backlash

, Dec 31st 2012 Discuss [2]

Foursquare has announced changes to its privacy policy, displaying users whole names and giving businesses more customer data by default, though the check-in service is keen to point out that extra privacy can be restored with a few settings tweaks. Announced in an email to registered users over the weekend, the tweaks come alongside an amended Privacy 101 document that attempts to reduce confusion of the sort that gave Instagram such headaches earlier this month. Read The Full Story

Facebook: Poke fix for sneaky video saving coming “shortly”

, Dec 28th 2012 Discuss [1]

Facebook is hurriedly cooking up a fix to its Poke app, after a security bug allowing all videos sent through the purportedly ephemeral messaging service to be extracted was identified. "We are addressing this issue now" a spokesperson told BuzzFeed, "we should have a fix pushed shortly." Poke - along with rival time-limited messaging app Snapchat - was caught caching videos in a temporary file on iPhones and other iOS devices, where despite the sender setting them to delete in 10 seconds or less, they could later be retrieved. Read The Full Story

Facebook Poke and Snapchat bug saves “deleted” videos

, Dec 28th 2012 Discuss [3]

A security flaw that quietly saves private videos in Snapchat and Facebook Poke for future recovery, when the sender expects them to be deleted after a few seconds, has been identified in the new “sexting” apps. Both apps promise a simple way to share photos and video temporarily, with the promise that they’ll be deleted shortly after viewing; however, BuzzFeed discovered, a simple third-party file browser can pull the video files from a cached store on your iPhone or iPad, allowing the clips to be archived and shared.

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Instagram Privacy Policy prodded with Class-Action lawsuit

, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [5]

The folks responsible for drafting the Instagram Privacy Policy changes that’ve caused massive amounts of madness over the past few weeks have another chapter to add to their must-read books: a class-action lawsuit in California. This lawsuit has been filed by San Diego-based law firm Finkelstein & Krinsk and targets Facebook – as it were – because of their newly confirmed ownership of Instagram as a whole.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s sister becomes victim of Facebook privacy issues

, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [9]

Facebook has long been getting criticism for its privacy practices on its users, and it looks like the CEO's own sister is having issues of her own with the social networking giant. Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, complained on Twitter when a photo she posted that was meant to be set as private ended up being public somehow. Read The Full Story

Instagram took the lazy, sneaky way out

, Dec 21st 2012 Discuss [4]

Congratulations, internet: your often-ugly filtered photos are safe. Instagram‘s decision to backtrack on its contentious Terms of Service changes have rolled back the clock to how things used to be, the halcyon days of another usage policy you didn’t actually bother reading. Maybe it’s a victory for a vocal user-base, but it also seems a missed opportunity for a legitimately useful change in how our rights are expressed in an age where the cloud has become all-pervasive.

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Facebook privacy settings changes start to go live

, Dec 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has rolled out the first wave of privacy changes that it has had planned for awhile now. Users in New Zealand are seeing new notifications and menus that are part of the changes. According to a spokesperson who talked with The Next Web, other Facebook users will begin seeing the changes over the course of the next week as the social network wraps up its testing. Read The Full Story

FTC Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule amendments made clear

, Dec 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the FTC announced their first significant update to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule since 1998, having been in talks to do so since 2010. This set of changes was outlined by FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz who made it clear that the amount of time spent on these amendments should effectively underline their importance. A follow-up letter after the initial announcement was made created a list of easy-to-understand language surrounding the most significant changes and updates to the COPPA Rule. Read The Full Story

FTC Child Online Privacy Laws expand to Social Networks and Apps galore

, Dec 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Back in 1998, Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and just this week they're updating it for the first time to expand and keep up with the massive amount of changes that have occurred between then and now. The new set of rules comes down after weeks (and months and years) of deliberation and lobbying and generally have to do with kid-specific apps as well as general social networking environments of all kinds collecting photos, videos, and the tracking of children in many ways. These rules are a slight departure, it would seem, from an earlier set of proposals from August of this year which included more strict regulation on "plug-ins" like the Facebook "like" button. Read The Full Story
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