Privacy group: Facebook principles still lacking
Facebook's recent decision to back off proposed changes in its terms of service still leaves the social-media site with a "huge loophole" in privacy protections, a privacy group said Tuesday.
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Facebook puts privacy controls in hands of its users
New Facebook setting lets users open their personal pages to public viewing
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Facebook lets members make profile elements wide open
Facebook on Monday made it possible for members to lift privacy access controls from certain elements of their profiles, so that anyone on the social-networking site can see them.
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IBM develops Facebook privacy application
IBM on Thursday unveiled an application that guides users toward strong privacy settings in Facebook's online marketplace and could be developed into a management tool for companies or across Web sites for users.
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Microsoft puts the kibosh on Facebook worm Koobface
Microsoft is trying to stamp out the Koobface worm, which has spread aggressively on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company said Tuesday.
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Who gets your Facebook page when you die?
When people plan for their death, they make sure their homes, cars and money are left to someone. But what about their Facebook page?
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Facebook temporarily loses more than 10 percent of users' photos
Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted on a blog post Monday that over the weekend a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10 to 15 percent of its users stored photographs.
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Facebook adds chat to apps, foresees adoption jump
Applications created for the Facebook platform can now feature live chat, a capability the company foresees will not only make programs more appealing but also boost their usage and rate of adoption.
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Facebook: promo Pages, personal profiles to converge
Facebook will broaden access to member social-networking profiles and make its Pages marketing service more dynamic, with an eye to eventually erasing the line between the two products.
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Facebook to revamp its Pages service for advertisers
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will announce on Wednesday a major upgrade to the company's Pages service, which lets advertisers create profiles on the social-networking site to promote their products and services.
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Koobface worm to users: Be my Facebook friend
A worm that hit Facebook last December has resurfaced, a security researcher said today, and is now hijacking user accounts -- not only for that social networking service, but also for MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal and others.
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Judge kicks notorious spammer off Facebook
A federal judge in San Jose, California, has ordered convicted spammer Sanford Wallace to stay away from Facebook.
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Social networking in business: plan less for less pain
Productivity loss, information leakage, and defamation of fellow employees are all enough to get us fired from our jobs, unless, of course, it is done under the guise of a social network for the enterprise 2.0.
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Are Facebook's outraged users getting a wake-up call?
After outraged users hammered Facebook for changing its terms-of-use policy to seemingly give the company vast control over users' content, analysts are wondering if the brouhaha will serve as the long-awaited wake-up call for users to think before they post.
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Facebook opens new APIs for app platform
External developers' applications can now access a wider range of information posted by Facebook members on the social-networking site.
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