Earlier this week, Facebook turned off its facial recognition feature for all European users and deleted all biometric data it had gathered up to this point. Facebook was ordered last month to turn off its controversial facial recognition software features in Europe by October 15 after a storm of outcry from privacy watchdog groups. Facebook…
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Last April, Facebook started its Anti-Virus Marketplace, a site where users can download six-month trial licenses to full versions of anti-virus software programs, including ones from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos or Symantec. Now Facebook is adding programs from Avast!, AVG, Avira, Kaspersky, Panda, Total Defense and Webroot. Facebook and these affiliate companies have also announced their intentions to step up…
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We spend a lot of time debunking viral Facebook posts as scams, hoaxes, and half-truths. Currently, there are messages being posted by Facebook page administrators encouraging fans to take certain actions so they will continue to receive their updates, and these happen to be factual. Recent reports indicate that only 10% of a Facebook page’s…
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Two gay college students were outed on Facebook because of a privacy flaw in Facebook Groups. Users can be added to Facebook Groups by friends without the user’s permission or approval. If you happen to be added to a Group that you don’t want to be associated with, then your only option is to leave.…
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*UPDATE – The following update was issued by Facebook to clarify the forthcoming changes: “Update: To clarify, the majority of custom actions will continue to be approved and function as normal. The changes announced below only impact custom actions for apps that publish stories as content is consumed. For example, if you have an app…
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Officials in the European Union want to see European Internet users given more control over their online privacy settings, and more say in the matter of private data companies mining their personal info from Facebook. Neelie Kroes, the EU’s Internet chief, set a meeting in June for companies to get together and standardize web privacy…
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Two 16-year-old students at New York’s Cinema School in the Bronx set up a Facebook profile for a fictional girl named “Sarah Archer” in the hopes of exposing Kevin Eckstein, 38, an IT employee at their school, as a deviant. They both suspected he was “creepy,” and told police that they wanted to prove their…
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A new browser extension for Chrome and Firefox called PrivacyFix aims to give users more control over their privacy settings on webpages like Facebook by showing them how they are being tracked by online cookies. “Default privacy settings on sites like Facebook are revenue- driven, not privacy-driven,” PrivacyFix founder Jim Brock said in a press…
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If you have included your mobile phone number in your Facebook contact information, then you’ll be interested in a major security flaw discovered by Suriya Prakash. Many people reluctantly give up their mobile number to Facebook to enable login approvals, self-included. As you can see in the image shown below, I have my phone number…
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Recently, a glitch on Facebook was uncovered that even further calls into question the legitimacy of Facebook “Likes,” particularly as a means to track user interest. As reported by Business Insider, whenever you send a message to a friend on Facebook containing a URL, Facebook scans that URL and increases the number of Facebook “Likes”…
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