What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case
Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg's big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their computers and iPhones. We have a plain english Q&A.
Facebook Tagged With $15B Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit On Eve Of IPO
What has this world come to when Facebook can’t even enjoy its initial public offering? On the eve of the long-awaited IPO, the social network was the target of a $15 billion class-action suit that consolidated 21 claims of invasion of privacy by tra...
Four short links: 18 May 2012
Overlapping S-Curves of Various Products (PNG) -- product adoption speed over time. (via Beta Knowledge) High School Makerspaces Q&A with Dale Dougherty (Radioshack) -- Experimentation is one of the things we’re trying to promote. If you do experiments, a number of them fail and you learn from that failure and say, “Gee, I could have...
European Activists Could Force Facebook’s New Privacy Changes To A Worldwide Vote
The European activists “europe-v-facebook.org”, led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment threshold on a Facebook privacy proposal, first raised last week, which would force the company to take the revisions to a worldwide vote....Commerce Weekly: Another mobile wallet is on the way
Isis announces Mobile Wallet partners and a rollout plan, Rogers Communication and CIBC partner to bring a mobile wallet to Canada, and a look at the theoretical benefits of NFC. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.)
How to Hide Your Tweets from Google [Privacy]
Provided you occasionally Google yourself you're probably well aware that your Twitter account is placed pretty high on Google's search rankings. Because of that it's usually best to make sure you're no...
Poll: Only 13% Trust Their Data With Facebook
On the cusp of decision time, when many fund managers and investors will have to decide whether or not to partake in Facebook shares during its initial public offering (orders will reportedly cease at the end of today), a poll conducted by CNBC in conj...
From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet [Security]
Raise your hand if you've shared a username and password with someone over IM? Ever share a document with your SSN or other extremely sensitive information without protecting it? How about if you've sen...
Facebook’s delicate balance between profits and privacy
If Facebook really is overvalued leading up to its IPO, privacy might be the underlying cause of the company's missed expectations. As it turns out, pleasing both investors and users isn't easy for a company that relies heavily on advertising and personal data.
Facebook Users’ Data Can Now Be Used To Serve Ads Outside Facebook
Facebook broke in its brand-new Facebook Terms and Policies Hub with a revamped data use policy, as announced by Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan in a post on the Facebook and Privacy page.
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