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Privacy and security issues in social media are obviously a huge concern to many of the people who use these types of sites. Most of the people who actually show their personal information don’t understand the consequences they could face, and the others probably don’t care. It is more important now than ever before to…

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Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are said to be on the verge of reaching a settlement over the company’s privacy practices – a settlement that would fly in the face of how Facebook has implemented new features in the past. The changes would definitely go a long way in helping users obtain the…

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Deep in the bowels of Facebook’s Terms of Use is this short but very important clause: You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. It’s something that all of us agreed to the moment we signed up for the…

Here’s a new development that could potentially affect your privacy: Google can now index AJAX and JavaScript content. Before, Googlebot could not access content that was posted using a third party commenting system, such as what you use on Facebook. But with this new development, everything that you post in a public page or forum…