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Facebook Rolls Out 'Nearby Friends' Feature To Let You Stalk In Person
Some might consider it to be a major breach of privacy, but Facebook sees it as a major feature. With "Nearby Friends", the Facebook mobile app will be able to tell you if any of your contacts are - as you'd expect - nearby. This feature was first rumored just over a year ago, and at the time, many were up-in-arms - oblivious as to how Facebook...
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Facebook adding new tool to discover Nearby Friends
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that alerts you about friends in your network who are nearby. Depending on how you feel about privacy, Nearby Friends may be helpful or creepy. Facebook stressed that Nearby Friends was an “optional” feature that the company is adding to its mobile app
. General Mills reverses new legal policy: Yes, you can like our Facebook Pages and sue us
General Mills, one of the world’s largest food companies, made headlines when the New York Times reported_that its new legal terms meant those who liked Facebook pages belonging to its brands, bought a product or interacted in other ways waived their right to take legal action against it. Now, days later, it is reverting to its original privacy policy and claiming it was all a big misunderstanding. “Those [new] terms – and our intentions – were widely misread, causing concern among consumers._So we’ve listened – and we’re changing them back to what they were before,” a company blog post, which...
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Facebook will offer anonymous log-ins for apps
The social media giant that pioneered the concept of sharing too much now wants to protect your anonymity. Facebook is testing a way for users to sign in to a mobile app without divulging their identity, a feature that could appeal to members worried about privacy. The Menlo Park company also
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Call for Limits on Web Data of Customers
WASHINGTON — The White House, hoping to move the national debate over privacy beyond the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities to the practices of companies like Google and Facebook, released a long-anticipated report on Thursday that recommends developing government limits on how
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Moves app changes privacy policy post-acquisition to share user data with Facebook
Just a few days after it was acquired by Facebook, the always-on fitness tracking app Moves has updated its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data with the social network and other affiliates. The Wall Street Journal was the first to spot the change yesterday.
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Anonymous Logins play a tremendous yet under-appreciated role in ensuring users’ online privacy
Anonymous logins have been around for quite some time now, but with Facebook deciding to provide this feature the web is abuzz with pros and cons of such an option.
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. Facebook changes default privacy setting of new users’ posts from Public to Friends
Facebook is changing the default privacy setting for new status updates from Public to Friends. Whereas before all status updates were publicly visible – unless you remembered to change the setting – new users will now see that their first post is set to the Friends option. In addition, first-time posters will be reminded that this feature exists at all. It’s a hidden nugget of Facebook that’s not widely publicized, so the company is increasing its exposure with a revamped on-boarding process. When the user begins writing their first status update, a small window will appear to explain the privacy...
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Facebook Adjusts Its Privacy Controls-- Again
For years people have been complaining that Facebook’s privacy controls are too confusing, and Facebook made several changes to these policies on Thursday that indicate it agrees. For new users’ first post, Facebook’s default setting will be to share ...
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Facebook changes default privacy settings for new users to keep them from oversharing
Facebook is changing the default privacy setting for posts so that they’re viewable only by Friends. Until now, when new users sent out photos or status updates, these were publicly available to anyone on or off Facebook unless they manually change the default or restrict the audience for a particular...
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