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Facebook Wants You to Be Less Private - But Why?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 1, 2009 1:56 PM / 24 Comments

Facebook held a conference call today about changes being made to the website's privacy features but we were left feeling a little confused. A long list of settings are being

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Facebook's New Privacy Policies: Live Blogging the Press Call
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 1, 2009 9:32 AM / 2 Comments

Facebook is holding a press webcast and phone call this morning regarding upcoming changes to its privacy policies and features. It's an ongoing story we've been following closely but as

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Social Network Users Reportedly Concerned About Privacy, but Behavior Says Otherwise
Written by Sarah Perez / June 30, 2009 9:02 AM / 5 Comments

Recently, new data from security solutions company Webroot revealed some interesting insights into the thoughts and behaviors of users on social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, and others.

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A Closer Look at Facebook's New Privacy Options
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 29, 2009 12:37 PM / 17 Comments

Chances are you wouldn't tell grandma about the wild party you went to last Saturday night. Likewise, you might have spent Sunday evening at home knittin' a mitten and only

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Want to Work for the City of Bozeman, MT? Hand Over Your Social Network Logins and Passwords
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 18, 2009 10:40 AM / 41 Comments

We have written quite a bit about the pitfalls of disclosing too much in your social network profiles, especially when it comes to employers accidentally stumbling over your party pictures

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Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from Its Users
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 18, 2009 12:01 PM / 15 Comments

According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering selling anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a

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Now You Can Change What Google Says About You
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2009 1:01 PM / 53 Comments

Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Now_You_Can_Change_What_Google_Says_About_You';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin =

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Facebook's Site Governance Vote: A Massive Con?
Written by Lidija Davis / April 19, 2009 12:46 PM / 28 Comments

When Facebook announced it was opening its site governance to user voting late February, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an "unprecedented" effort to enable "participation on the

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European Commission and UK Clash Over Phorm
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 14, 2009 9:24 AM / 1 Comments

The European Commission is preparing legal actions against the British Government for breaching European privacy laws because it failed to reign in Phorm, a targeted advertising company that is infamous

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Google Sticks Up for Privacy, Disables Uploads on YouTube Korea
Written by Sarah Perez / April 13, 2009 5:50 AM / 12 Comments

Google has disabled both uploads of videos and comments on the Korean version of YouTube after the South Korean government tried to enforce a new law which requires web sites

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