Facebook has been on the hot seat again lately for violating user privacy. Anytime, new features are implemented, advocates, bloggers and analysts all chime in on how your privacy is affected. In addition to the normal hoopla surrounding the platform changes at F8, an Australian blogger discovered that Facebook continues tracking users even after they…
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Most people might be surprised to find that Facebook keeps a record of just about all of your activity on the site. Actually, in this day and age, where privacy has officially been declared dead, it really isn’t all that surprising at all. If you live in the European Union, then you have the right…
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Even with the explanations provided by Facebook about how their cookies helped protect the users, many remained skeptical of the true purpose of these cookies. Unwilling to take the company’s word as is, Representatives Joe Barton of Texas and Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting for an…
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Facebook looks like it’s foraging for more ‘friends’ in Washington with the creation of its new Political Action Committee. Zuckerberg and Co. have just filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Committee. This will enable the company to legally funnel donations to the candidates they feel will further their cause. “FB PAC will give…
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Recently, there was a huge uproar over a discovery made by an Australian Technologist concerning Facebook’s cookies. Nik Cubrilovic analyzed Facebook’s cookies and saw that once you log out of the site, the cookies aren’t removed or deleted but simply changed. Your account ID is still embedded in these cookies, so whenever you visit a…
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Recently, there was a huge uproar over a discovery made by an Australian Technologist concerning Facebook’s cookies. Nik Cubrilovic analyzed Facebook’s cookies and saw that once you log out of the site, the cookies aren’t removed or deleted but simply changed. Your account ID is still embedded in these cookies, so whenever you visit a…
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The Taunton Crown Court recently allowed a 19-year old sexual predator to keep his Facebook account despite his transgressions. The judge said that a Facebook ban would be ‘particularly excessive’ and that doing so would only deprive the teen of ‘social traffic’ taken for granted by his peers. Callum Dower had been using Facebook for…
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Hold on to your seats, people, because everything we see now in Facebook is likely to look completely different once Zuckerberg and Co. are done implementing the “cool new changes” mentioned at the F8 Conference. The changes to the newsfeed and that ticker that everyone’s complaining about – well, they’re only the prologue. The real…
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Facebook has been lit up with user complaints about the recent Newsfeed changes and the Ticker added to the site. For better or worse, people just don’t like change. Pretty much the mantra has been, “If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.” We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears…
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Facebook has been lit up with user complaints about the recent Newsfeed changes and the Ticker added to the site. For better or worse, people just don’t like change. Pretty much the mantra has been, “If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.” We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears…
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