Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

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Privacy Complaint Filed Against Canadian Social Network

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21 Jan 2010

It’s not just Google and Facebook that are under scrutiny from privacy watchdogs. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), a consumer advocacy group based in Ottawa, has asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate alleged violations of Canadian privacy law by popular teen social networking site, Nexopia. PIAC’s complaint identified six Nexopia privacy practices [...]

Yelp’s iPhone app gets check-ins, friend stalking

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18 Jan 2010

Yelp adds a way for users to alert one another of their goings-on, though similar to Foursquare, the privacy implications may be a bit too much for some. Originally posted at Web Crawler Go to Source

Warning: This Site May Be Sharing Your Data

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14 Jan 2010

Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, is leading a charge to make privacy settings more explicit to users by creating visual cues in the browser. Raskin’s idea uses a set of small icons to denote the limits of a website’s privacy policy. Raskin likens the idea to how Firefox (and other browsers) currently [...]

Why Facebook’s Privacy Changes are Detrimental to Users

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13 Jan 2010

Though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that public is the new “social norm,” many members who use the social network for professional and business reasons have lost the ability to conduct certain actions privately as a result of changes made to the settings. And despite this being a reflection and a catalyst of our social [...]

Dissecting Zuckerberg’s Privacy Comments

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12 Jan 2010

For many in the online space these days the words “Facebook privacy” would be called an oxymoron. Then of course there would be the usual calling others at Facebook morons and then it would get worse from there but I digress. Michael Arrington recently interviewed the poster child for the “Privacy? What privacy?” movement, Facebook [...]


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