News tagged with user profile

What online social networks may know about non-members

(Phys.org) -- What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own? Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

S. Korea urges Google to improve privacy

South Korean regulators Tuesday voiced concerns over Google's controversial plan to merge user data from YouTube, Gmail, Google+ and other services in individual comprehensive profiles.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More sharing comes to Facebook with new apps

Facebook is adding a bevy of new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to.

Technology / Software

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook makes sharing more selective

Facebook on Tuesday announced it is rolling out improvements aimed at letting users be more selective about who gets to see what they post at the world's largest online social network.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0