Topic: Facebook Inc.

A number of companies try to do right by their customers by installing protections - before a data breach happens, says Ford's Scott Roundy. Dan Kaplan investigates.It was not too long ago that failures on Wall Street and the soaring price of ...
German official takes legal steps against Facebook over violation of data privacy lawsA German data protection official has filed a legal complaint against Facebook, saying people have been griping that their private information was saved by the personal networking site without their ...

Australia denies targeting Google over Web filter

Australia on Monday denied waging a campaign of vengeance against Google after launching a police probe of the web giant, a strong critic of plans for a nationwide Internet filter. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called chief executive Eric Schmidt's approach to ...

German minister sees Facebook fined over privacy

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's consumer protection minister said on Thursday she would quit Facebook over what she called privacy law violations that she believed would lead to the company being fined by German data protection authorities. Ilse Aigner, an avid user of ...

German minister says to delete Facebook account

Germany's consumer affairs minister said Thursday she would delete her Facebook account, arguing the social networking site still fails to protect privacy despite new measures announced last week. "I will end my membership," Ilse Aigner told a news conference in Berlin after ...
German minister: Facebook still not doing enough to protect data, will leave networkFacebook still isn't doing enough to protect users' data, Germany's consumer protection minister said Thursday, adding that she plans to give up her account. The minister, Ilse Aigner, first raised ...

German agency not satisfied with Facebook changes

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's national consumer-protection agency may take legal measures against Facebook if it finds that the social network's new privacy controls do not meet German data-protection standards. Carola Elbrecht, head of digital projects at the VZBV agency, welcomed the changes ...
Facebook has called a Wednesday press conference to discuss "enhanced, simpler" privacy controls designed to appease concerns about safeguarding information at the social-networking service. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives are slated to take part in the briefing, which will ...

Facebook 'missed the mark' on privacy: founder

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the social network "missed the mark" with its privacy controls and will be revealing simpler features in the coming weeks. "Sometimes we move too fast -- and after listening to recent concerns, we're responding," ...
Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics. "We?ve spent the last couple of weeks listening to users and consulting with experts in California; Washington, DC, and around the world," Facebook spokesman ...
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