Facebook Friends Disclosure

Facebook Vulnerability Discloses Friends Lists Defined as Private ================================================= Researchers from the Quotium Seeker Research Center identified a security flaw in Facebook privacy controls. The vulnerability allows attackers to see the friends list of any user o...

Facebook Streamlines Privacy Controls in Latest Update

In what may be the least surprising news of the day, Facebook is again making changes to its privacy controls. The existing privacy controls, which we explored in depth in our How-To Video on the subject, are a bit convoluted. So it makes sense that product manager Samuel Lessin is rolling out so...

Report: Google Negotiating with FTC over Apple Safari Privacy Breach

Search giant Google is in negotiations with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC over the size of a fine it will pay. This, after the company was found in breach of privacy controls in Apple’s Safari browser earlier this year. According to an article from the Bloomberg news service, an unnamed...

Consumer Reports: 13 Million Facebook Users Ignore Privacy Settings

A Consumer Reports investigation indicates 13 million U.S. Facebook users are oversharing — and likely don’t know it. That figure represents 8 percent of Facebook’s 150 million U.S. users, but it is part of an upward trend in users failing to protect themselves while on the social network — putti...

EU Gets Tough: Gives Google Two Weeks To Explain Data Practices

A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique CNIL sent a letter .PDF late last week t...

Feeling Heat Facebook Adds Google+ Like Privacy Controls

History has taught us that monopolies are bad for consumers. It was true in the first decades of the 20th century with Standard Oil, and in the final decade of the same century with Microsoft. Its been true, in recent years, with social networking behemoth, Facebook, also. But now, with Google’s...

The unofficial guide to Facebook privacy !

To fully understand the privacy of Facebook and how it's likely to evolve, you need to understand one thing - Facebook executives want everyone to be public. As the service evolves, executives tend to favor our open access to information, meaning information you think is private will slowly becom...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...

Facebook Improves User Privacy Controls

In a move hailed by privacy advocates, Facebook deployed a feature that allows its users to better control what personal information can be accessed by third-party applications and websites. Read the full article. The Register...

More Privacy Controls Coming to Facebook

From The New York Times Riva Richmond Facebook launched a beta test today that foreshadows new privacy controls coming to “Publisher” – the box at the top of your home and profile pages where you add content. The changes will let you easily specify who among your friends gets to see that specific...