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Image via CrunchBase If you’re using social media , or basically anything on the Internet these days, you are really kidding yourself if you think you have true privacy.  That said, Facebook ’s latest change to their terms of service states that they own all of your data, even if you delete your account. We’ve run into things like this before. Google Chrome had a simlilarly suspicious TOS that was made more reasonable after a similar public outcry . Question is: will Facebook listen? It isn’t the first time they have come under fire.  Beacon and the  new facebook  were both a communication faux pas .  Can you blame Facebook though? They need to make money.  Nobody is twisting your arm to be on Facebook in the first place.   I respect that  CEO Mark Zuckerberg put out  a post  to respond to the situation at hand.  Mind you it would have been nice to see before all the public outcry, though at least they are addressing the ...

Despite high-profile security breaches such as  Jack Straw's Hotmail account being compromised , and cybercriminals gaining access to celebrity Twitter accounts after  cracking an administrator password , a third of computer users are still using the same password for every website they access according to newly revealed stats* from Sophos. Very few computer users seem to have woken up to the risks of using weak passwords and the same ones for every site they visit. With social networking and other internet accounts now even more popular, there's plenty on offer for hackers and by using the same password to access Facebook, Amazon and your online bank account, you're making it much easier for them.

Image via CrunchBase Pengguna Twitter dikejutkan dengan langkah Twitpic. Layanan photo sharing ini mengubah term and condition of use , di mana mereka mengklaim mempunyai hak untuk menjual foto user tanpa permisi. Twitpic menyatakan bahwa user tetap akan memiliki hak cipta namun Twitpic juga punya hak jika ingin menjual foto ke pihak ketiga, seperti untuk koran dan majalah. Terang saja Twitpic menuai kecaman keras. Seperti dikutip detikINET dari Metro, Sabtu (14/5/2011), Twitpic juga menandatangani kesepakatan dengan agen pemberitaan WENN, yang mempunyai hak eksklusif untuk mendistribusikan foto. Khususnya foto yang diposting kalangan selebritis.

Image via Wikipedia Bila diperhatikan pengguna Facebook menggunakan foto profil yang bermacam-macam. Ada berupa foto sendiri/pribadi, foto sendiri yang close up sehingga hampir semua bagian muka terlihat, ada juga yang memakai kaca mata hitam, ada foto pribadi namun diambil dari jauh sehingga kurang jelas, bahkan ada juga yang tidak memakai sama sekali. Bagi mereka yang nge-fans dengan seseorang bisa juga memakai foto selebriti, ikon dan banyak lainnya. Ternyata pemakaian foto profil tersebut paling tidak ada kaitannya dengan pribadi pengguna Facebook. businessinsider.com dan gawker.com mencoba mengartikan foto profil di Facebook dengan menebak kira-kira apa arti dari foto profil tersebut. Menurut kedua sumber tersebut, memilih foto profil tertentu tidaklah semudah yang dibayangkan. Foto profil yang dpilih ternyata bisa menggambarkan sedikit banyaknya kepribadian pengguna.

Image by DonkeyHotey via Flickr Mark Zuckerberg , pendiri Facebook telah menyatakan bahwa misi utama dari situs jejaring sosial yang dibuat adalah untuk membuat ‘dunia lebih terbuka dan terhubung '. Tapi, mengakui tidak semua Facebook ‘buka ', ada beberapa hal yang tidak boleh dilakukan oleh user agar. Sejumlah orang, sering untuk membaca gerakan Anda di atas? seperti pacar, bos, anggota polisi, bahkan perusahaan asuransi dan penjahat cyber lainnya untuk memindai profil Facebook untuk informasi. HufftingtonPost, Selasa (02/10/2010) meluncurkan beberapa pembatasan yang tidak boleh ditampilkan oleh pengguna Facebook.

Image via Wikipedia Are you interested to know who viewed your profile? Is somebody spying on you? Want to get hold of that secret admirer of yours? Well, come now here is the solution. Is it that you have had a feeling that someone or the other is peeping on you, but you just can’t catch him/her red-handed? Now, to make things easier for you there is this free Facebook traffic viewer which if installed on your system will deliver you with all the info you need and will display the most recent user profiles that have looked at your profile. So, isn’t this interesting? Now go and find who views your Facebook Profile easily with this tracking tool. It comes completely free of cost to the public, so no need to worry about making payments to put this link on your Facebook profile. This is sure to relieve you out of your miseries!

As it is Facebook happens to be the most accessed social network site these days and with immense popularity the risk factor also counts in. You don’t want yourself to be exposed do you. So, its better to have some measures taken before the consequences can have their take on you. Facebook though is known for providing the liberty of sharing photos and albums in an organized manner but their are pot-holes to be addressed. Well for now you can follow up these steps and see whether you get some effects, in this case i guess thing’s would be fruitful if there aren’t any after-effects cause the moment you start getting response for the pictures you hid, you know you are drenched. So, here you go, Log in to your Facebook account and click “ Account ” on the upper right menu of the homepage. Click “ Privacy Settings ” in the “ Account ” tab and click “ Customize Settings ” on the “ Privacy ” page. Scroll to the “ Things Others Share ” menu and click the drop-down menu under ...

About to take on Facebook?: Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page. Photo: AP Google, perhaps the only company with the clout and users to take on the seemingly unassailable Facebook, is reportedly working secretly on "Google Me", a product that would go head-to-head with the social networking giant. The founder of popular link-sharing site Digg, Kevin Rose, kicked off a round of feverish speculation this week by tweeting that he had heard a "huge rumour" from a "very credible source" that Google was going to launch a Facebook competitor "very soon". Rose has since removed the tweet, saying he was asked to do so. Adam D'Angelo, former CTO of Facebook and now co-founder of social Q&A site Quora, added fuel to the fire by declaring "This is not a rumour. This is a real project". He claimed to have received information from "reliable sources".

"Google me" sounds like a lame pickup line delivered near closing time, but it might also be Google's latest attempt at becoming relevant in social media. Kevin Rose, of Digg fame, got the speculation rolling Sunday with a tweet that Google was working on a social service called Google Me that would compete with Facebook, perhaps Google's biggest rival for attention on the Internet. On Tuesday, former Facebook executive and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo took things a little further by declaring on Quora that "this is not a rumor. This is a real project. There are a large number of people working on it. I am completely confident about this." So what might Google Me actually be? No one seems to really know. But it does appear to be somehow related to one's Google Profile, a service that got a shot in the arm with the debut of Google Buzz earlier this year. Google Buzz lets users share links, pictures, and thoughts with friends who find them through t...

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Jutaan pecandu Facebook di seluruh dunia khawatir bahwa suatu hari nanti akan diharuskan untuk membayar saat menggunakan halaman situs itu. Selama konferensi pers yang diadakan baru-baru ini, CEO Facebook Mark Zuckerberg mengatakan bahwa selama para pengguna Facebook memiliki perhatian terhadap masalah privasi, pertanyaan tentang apakah Facebook akan memungut bayaran atau tidak untuk layanannya akan menyita perhatian yang sangat besar, di antara pengguna laman tersebut yang berjumlah sekitar 500 juta Tetapi apakah ketakutan ini dibenarkan? “Kami sama sekali tidak punya rencana untuk memungut bayaran bagi layanan-layanan dasar di Facebook,” ujar juru bicara Facebook, Larry Yu Berdasarkan keterangan pegawai Facebook, seperti dikutip darii CNN, alasan tidak akan dikenakan biaya akses karena wall to wall berbayar bertentangan dengan misi perusahaan yang membuat dunia lebih terbuka dan terhubung.

Jejaring sosial terbesar di dunia, Facebook, baru-baru ini digugat oleh penggunanya karena dituduh membocorkan data pribadi pengguna kepada para pengiklan. Salah seorang pengguna Facebook asal South Lake Tahoe California, David Gould, menuding Facebook telah mengingkari kebijakan privasinya. Yaitu dengan mengungkap data-data pengguna yang mengeklik iklan di Facebook, meliputi nama asli, kota tempat tinggal, asal sekolah, serta daftar teman-teman. Menurut Gould, kepada para pengiklan, Facebook mengirimkan referrer header setiap saat ada pengguna Facebook yang mengeklik iklan. Jadi setiap kali pengiklan menerima referrer header itu, para pengiklan bisa melihat profil pengguna spesifik yang telah mengeklik iklan itu. Apalagi, kata Gould, saat itu, kebijakan privasi yang lama memungkinkan pengiklan juga mengakses nama username maupun foto pengguna Facebook, mengingat banyak di antara mereka yang tidak mengutak-atik pengaturan privasi mereka.

Facebook has just won its court battle in Pakistan and reaffirmed its restoration in the country . The privacy issue continues to besiege the social networking ace. However, for all those Facebook -buffs who are in no mood to celebrate Quit Facebook Day, you can better tighten your privacy. A week ago, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckberg, while addressing the privacy issues , had announced that suggesting the plans would roll out simplified controls. The new tools will offer users one menu with three settings that determine who can see shared content - friends, friends of friends and everyone. To boost up your security you can surely get on with some cool tips by Symantec for on social network to protect their personal information . The foremost thing is never to share your password for facebook or any other social networking site with anyone not even your best friend or spouse. warned that photos, videos and comments posted on the web are often there forever. Never post anything you w...

When the first steam-powered vehicles arrived on the roads in Britain midway through the 19th century, parliament passed a law which stated that at least three people must be employed to drive them, one of whom should be walking in front carrying a red flag. It was not until 1896 that the Highways Act allowed vehicles to be driven without such restrictions. Initial responses to new technology often have to be adapted as usage patterns become clearer. That was true on 19th-century British roads; it is true on the internet today. Media regulations to encourage the local production of content are becoming anachronistic with content available to all. Copyright laws are having to be updated to take account of today's practices. Most relevant for Facebook, the right approach to privacy needs to take account of how consumers actually use social networks and what they want. Although many internet companies have to deal with privacy issues, this is particularly challenging for social ne...

Today, Facebook announced new simplified privacy controls designed to ease a settings overload problem that it admitted has challenged its users. Did it succeed? I’d give it an A for effort but a C+ to B- for actually solving the overload problem. Rather than a “one click solution” or a single-page recap, there remains a “flowchart” of options. Though less daunting than in the past, the complexity may still leave users feeling there are too many controls to be in control. Below, a “Before” and “After” comparison. The “Before” screens are what most people on Facebook currently see, when they visit their privacy settings. The “After” is what they’ll get in the coming weeks and which can be previewed here . A small number people already have access to the new controls, including many reporters who participated in Facebook’s privacy press conference today . I was one of those reporters, so the “After” screens below are drawn from what I see in my personal account. ...

Facebook deserves plenty of blame for messing too much with its privacy settings, but no amount of fixing will stop people from embarrassing themselves on the Internet. An interesting thing happened in the time since Facebook's privacy fiasco began: The debate moved away from the most recent changes to Facebook's privacy -- allowing select Web sites to automatically tell your Facebook friends what you've been doing on those sites -- and now focuses on changes that are almost six months old . Suddenly, it seems, users are upset that Facebook wants status updates and friends lists shared with the world. By default, new Facebook users' profiles are set to "everyone," making life on the Internet an open book. Enter, well, Openbook , the site that exposes just how much people expose on Facebook. PCWorld has covered this site before , making note of the too-much-information that (I hope) users think was kept private. NPR played a different trick...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled his company's revamped privacy tools in front of a corps of tech journalists that included organizers of last year's Facebook Redesign Revolt , PCWorld editors who drafted a Bill of Rights for Facebook Users , and many of the company's fiercest critics of its privacy policies. Responding to widespread user outrage and criticism from government and private advocacy groups, Facebook outlined a massive overhaul of the privacy controls that govern how users' information is shared on the site. "We listened to the feedback that we got, and we agree with it," Zuckerberg told assembled members of the press at the company's Palo Alto headquarters. "We're really going to try to not have another backlash." The major changes to the site's privacy options consist of a simplified set of controls that will let users opt out of three main types of information sharing: personal content, person...

FACEBOOK overhauled its privacy controls yesterday to fend off mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust that has made it the world's biggest social network. "It's been a pretty intense few weeks for us, listening to all the feedback coming in from all the changes we've made," Facebook's 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg said as he announced simplified privacy controls. "Our teams internally have been cranking for the last couple of weeks." Facebook unveiled a redesigned privacy settings page to provide a single control for content and "significantly reduce" the amount of information that is always visible to everyone. Facebook also said it is giving users more control over how outside applications or websites access information at the service. "This is a pretty big overhaul to the system we already have," Zuckerberg said while outlining the changes during a press briefing at the social network's headquarte...

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has just penned an editorial for the Washington Post , answering his critics and announcing that changes are on the way. Mr Zuckerberg writes of two substantive changes coming soon — drastically simplified privacy settings, and an easy way to opt-out of third party services such as the recently launched Instant Personalisation feature. These changes are in line with what we reported on Saturday , when we revealed plans for Facebook’s “master control.” Mr Zuckerberg, who has been criticised for not being more forthcoming in recent weeks, took responsibility for his company’s overreach. “The biggest message we have heard recently is that people want easier control over their information,” he wrote. “Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark.” It will be Facebook’s next steps, however, tha...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy . An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend won't help put these concerns to rest. According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks. Brutal. Could Mark have been completely joking? Sure. But the exchange does reveal that Facebook's aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on.