Topic: Facebook Inc.

Connecticut wants Facebook meeting over privacy

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Connecticut's Attorney General is concerned over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns.Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to ...

Facebook facial recognition technology sparks renewed concerns

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world's top social networking service.The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded ...

Facebook may have leaked your personal information: Symantec

(Reuters) - Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, according to Symantec Corp's official web blog.Third-parties would have had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, ...
A Q&A with Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart covering social media, smartphones, educating the public and much more.She has faced down Facebook and taken federal public servants to task for misusing their beloved BlackBerries. The spreading use of social media, smartphones and other ...
That survey was conducted in August and September, before Facebook and Yelp joined Foursquare and Gowalla in offering coupons to users who check in when they visit participating establishments, which may include Starbucks, McDonald's, and other popular chains.. For example, Facebook application ...
It should make us nervous when two of America's most important Web companies resort to sniping through the media over which service really has our best interests at heart.. Long headed for a collision, Google and Facebook are currently exchanging blows over ...
Facebook has become a lightning rod for those groups and individuals who champion the rights of privacy in today's sometimes mixed up world. If you're familiar with the story, you know that Facebook, the social networking giant, has taken an extraordinary beating ...
On Wednesday, May 5, 2010 a Facebook glitch with the internal chat program was brought to the attention of Facebook's technical department. The glitch was fixed, chat is back up and running and in the aftermath Facebook announced the vulnerability "existed for ...
In the early portion of the month of May 2010, the web community saw two different popular networks experience problems within five days of one another. First came the hiccup in Facebook's chat feature on May 5, 2010 that allowed private messages ...
What scammers have done is create a falsified 'Dislike' button and call it an official feature created by Facebook. Much like other popular scams, the next step of the fraud takes intrigued Facebook members to a link which is of course designed ...