Facebook tuning privacy controls to appease critics
Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.
Internet
May 23, 2010
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Online personas rarely match real-life behavior, observers say
Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, encourage members to use their actual identities doesn't mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.
Internet
May 14, 2010
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Facebook's expansion triggers political backlash
(AP) -- Facebook's plan to spread its online social network to other websites could be detoured by regulators looking into privacy concerns that have raised the ire of federal lawmakers.
Internet
Apr 27, 2010
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Senators see privacy problem in Facebook expansion
(AP) -- Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information.
Internet
Apr 27, 2010
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Canada privacy chief criticizes new Facebook changes
Facebook users may be targets of blackmail after changes that erode personal security protections on the world's most popular social network website, Canada's privacy czar warned Saturday.
Internet
Apr 25, 2010
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Study: Young adults do care about online privacy
(AP) -- All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today's tech-savvy generation doesn't care about privacy.
Internet
Apr 15, 2010
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AOL looking to sell or shut down social site Bebo
(AP) -- The struggling Internet company AOL Inc. plans to sell or shut down the online community Bebo nearly two years after buying it for $850 million in an expansion of its social-networking ambitions.
Internet
Apr 6, 2010
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GM Unveils Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V) Concept (w/ Video)
By 2030, urban areas will be home to more than 60 percent of the world's 8 billion people. This will put tremendous pressure on a public infrastructure that is already struggling to meet the growing demand for transportation ...
Engineering
Mar 25, 2010
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Spain smashes global 'zombie' computer network: police
Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.
Internet
Mar 3, 2010
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Researcher finds 'network privacy' an online oxymoron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer science professor says he only needs a mite of information to fill in Facebook users' personal data -- and he has created the algorithm to back it up.
Internet
Feb 11, 2010
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