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PC Magazine June 13, 2011 Chloe Albanesius |
Privacy Groups Request FTC Probe of Facebook Facial Recognition Tech A D.C.-based privacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to examine Facebook's facial-recognition technology. |
InternetNews August 27, 2009 |
Facebook Tweaks Privacy Policy in Face of Inquiry Bowing to pressure from Canadian regulators, Facebook said it plans to give users more control over how data is shared on the site. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Privacy Advocates Boycott Facial Recognition Negotiations The U.S. government's efforts to build a code of conduct for facial recognition software creators has hit a major snag. |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out, Says Belgian Report If you have suspected Facebook is tracking you for ad campaigns, no matter what, all the time: You are right. |
Fast Company September 2015 Rose Pastore |
How Europe Is Finally Taking On Silicon Valley The E.U. is taking legal and regulatory action that would boost local upstarts and rein in U.S. tech giants. |
InternetNews December 10, 2009 |
Facebook Users Still Upset at Security Changes New controls may expose even more personal data to the Web at large, charge critics. |
InternetNews May 13, 2010 |
Facebook Confirms All-Hands Privacy Meeting Under increasing pressure from users, privacy advocates and government officials, Facebook is planning to take up the issue at a company-wide meeting. |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Facebook Exec Warns That Lawsuits Will Cripple Innovation In Europe If Facebook is held back by stringent policies, European startups will be, too, argues Facebook chief of public policy Richard Allan in an op-ed in the Financial Times. |
InternetNews July 1, 2010 |
Facebook Simplifies Privacy Policy for Apps In an effort to help users understand how much information they're sharing with third parties - and to satisfy its agreement with the Canadian government - Facebook is tweaking its privacy rules for apps. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Facebook's Quest To Overtake Your Phone Aims Right For The Dialer Rather than building devices or developing a full-fledged operating system, Facebook is going a more subtle route: nabbing chunks of your attention span, one app at a time. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Aims to Simplify Privacy Settings With the policy sharks circling, Facebook plans to offer new tools to give users clearer control over their privacy settings. |
InternetNews August 23, 2010 |
Facebook Touts Places Privacy Controls Responding to early criticism about the privacy settings of its new location-based service Places, Facebook takes pains to point out the various ways that people can control their information. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Must Stop Sending Personal Data From Europe To The U.S., Says Activist Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems has now flagged Facebook and asked that European data protection bodies halt the company's transfer of personal data. |
Fast Company Christina Farr |
Report: Facebook Tested User Loyalty By Sabotaging Its Android App Facebook sometimes made its Android app crash for several hours over the course of several years. Facebook would then track these users to see if they kept returning to the app or gave up. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Facebook Is Upgrading Search Functionality Within User Profiles Facebook appears to be quietly rolling out a new search feature: the ability to search within individual profiles. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Is Working On A Digital Assistant Called Moneypenny The teased service will supposedly let users call on "real people" when they need help choosing products or services, putting it somewhere between Siri and concierge services like Alfred. |
InternetNews December 10, 2009 |
Critics Blast Facebook's Latest Privacy Overhaul Advocates warn that new privacy controls will lead to inadvertent sharing of information. |
CRM May 25, 2011 Leonard Klie |
New EU Regs to Affect Email and Online Marketing Regulations take affect today that require opt-in consent for email marketing and tracking the online activity of Web site visitors. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Say "Hello" To The Facebook Phone (Again) With Hello, Facebook is taking a much quieter, less ambitious approach to creating what had for years been rumored as the inevitable "Facebook phone." |
InternetNews December 9, 2009 |
Facebook Launches Privacy Overhaul Social networking giant to require all 350 million-plus users to edit and confirm privacy controls. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Pays Less In Taxes In The U.K. Than The Average U.K. Employee Last year, the social networking giant spent just over $6,600 on corporation taxes in the U.K. The average U.K. worker, on the other hand, pays almost $8,300 in taxes. |
InternetNews December 2, 2009 |
Facebook Tweaks Privacy Controls, Hits 350M Users Facebook passes a milestone and distances itself from its original network-based approach to privacy. |
InternetNews May 24, 2010 |
Facebook CEO Apologizes for Privacy Missteps CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes his first public comments in response to Facebook's latest privacy controversy, promising to reveal a set of updates to the site in short order. |
Information Today January 7, 2014 |
Google Glass Gets Facial Recognition App FacialNetwork.com announced NameTag, the first real-time facial recognition app for Google Glass. The app is currently in beta, with an expected launch in 1Q 2014. |
Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Matthew Ncube |
'Facebook Privacy' Searches Plummet Keyword data indicates searchers have moved on or lost interest after outcries over Facebook's policy privacy and some online people publicly deleted (or vowed to delete) their accounts. |
InternetNews December 17, 2009 |
Privacy Groups Call Facebook's Changes Illegal Facebook's site-wide privacy changes draw ire from privacy watchdogs who are calling for a federal investigation. |
CRM January 2011 Juan Martinez |
Facebook: The Black Sheep of Online Behavioral Advertising Will dubious user data-sharing practices hurt the industry? |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Facebook Beefs Up Its Messenger App Facebook announced details on its much-rumored plans to integrate Messenger with purchases made on other sites, and to allow third-party developers to build apps that work within it. |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Online Privacy As Human Right? Internet Advocacy Group Pushes For New Standards The Global Commission on Internet Governance, a digital security advocacy group, met in the Hague early this morning to hammer home a citizens-first agenda for Internet privacy. |
InternetNews July 24, 2009 |
Facebook's Photo Flap Facebook has made a small change in its developer API code designed to limit the unwanted spread of personal photos posted by its members. But some developers of popular Facebook applications are voicing their displeasure with the move. |
Search Engine Watch October 21, 2010 Kristine Schachinger |
Facebook Privacy -- Again? Hey, Facebook, stop being careless, stop being sloppy, and stop giving out all our data. Get a security team, and audit your apps and your app companies. If Apple can do it, so can you. |
Fast Company Annelise McGough |
Google Cites Free Nature Of Search In EU Antitrust Defense Google has been the subject of a formal antitrust investigation in the European Union since April, over charges that it unfairly displays its own shopping service more prominently than competitors in search results. |
InternetNews June 8, 2010 |
Yahoo Extends Facebook Partnership Yahoo strengthens its ties with Facebook, announcing plans to integrate content on the two platforms, as well as a new privacy dashboard. |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Europe Unveils Strategy To (Finally) Compete With U.S. Tech Titans After multiple lawsuits aimed at U.S. tech titans, the European Union is proposing a unified digital marketplace for companies in all 28 member states that would compete with the likes of Facebook and Google. |
InternetNews August 5, 2009 |
Facebook Tightens Ad Guidelines Facebook site folds privacy policies into ad guidelines, warning that violators will be booted from the site. |
InternetNews October 29, 2009 |
Facebook Rejiggers Privacy Rules Following Probe Social-networking giant lives up to its agreement with Canadian authorities and now seeks comment from users. |
InternetNews May 26, 2010 |
Facebook Rolling Out Simpler Privacy Controls Responding to intense criticism from a variety of groups, Facebook will offer simpler controls to allow users to shut off the flow of information from their profiles. |
InternetNews March 18, 2008 |
Facebook Adds Privacy Controls, Plans Chat Feature Facebook said it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social-network site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. |
InternetNews February 17, 2009 David Needle |
Facebook Scrambles to Nip Privacy Controversy Despite changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists users own and control their own information. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
The EU Officially Reveals Its Plan To Reduce Silicon Valley's Power In Europe As part of its ongoing effort to reposition its economy, the European Union just formally unveiled plans to unify its fractured markets and take a more aggressive stance toward U.S. tech companies. |
InternetNews July 6, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Facebook Spy Gaffe Highlights Need for Policies The posting of the holiday photographs of the head of MI6 on Facebook is touted as a security breach but the real issue is one that affects all businesses. |
InternetNews October 7, 2010 |
Facebook's Changes Aimed at User Control Leading social network Facebook has introduced a host of new features that promote closer interaction and elevate users' control over how information is collected. |
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2009 Ron Jones |
Facebook 101 The basics to know before joining the popular social media site, including tips on setting up your account, privacy, and helpful applications. |
CRM August 2011 Leonard Klie |
New EU Regulations to Affect Email, Online Marketing Opt-in consent required for emails and for tracking the online activity of Web site visitors |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Microsoft Speaks Out About EU "Safe Harbor" Policy Earlier this month, the European Union undid its long-standing "Safe Harbor" policy, which allowed foreign tech companies to store data about European users in data centers outside of Europe. |
CIO April 15, 2002 Daintry Duffy |
Continental Divide While Europe has adopted strict privacy regulations, U.S. companies are still collecting and trading their customers' info like it's going out of style. If Simon Davies has his way, it will... |
PC Magazine February 10, 2009 Bill Dyszel |
Online Safety Tips for Facebook Fogeys Grownups, take note! Here is what you need to know before "friending" your first Facebook connection. |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2014 Carr & Wilson |
Facebook's Plan To Own Your Phone To make Facebook more relevant than ever, the company has targeted the very core of the app economy to fulfill its vision for the next half-decade. |
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Leah Fabel |
The Business of Facebook After all its maneuverings to get us to open up, the social-networking behemoth is expected to go public itself sometime this year. Here, a look at the numbers propelling its estimated $50 billion valuation. |
InternetNews October 2, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Germans Suspicious of 'GoogleClick' German official raises privacy concerns over Google-DoubleClick merger. |