privacy
Who Controls Your Child on Facebook?
I hadn’t heard about the proposed SB 242 bill in California until reading about it on TechCrunch a few moments ago. As I quickly ran through the article, I prepared myself to see a whole lot of angry comments at the end. I wasn’t disappointed… people are angry. However, every single commenter is missing the [...]
Are Your Parents on Facebook?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My Mom finally decided to create a Facebook account for herself. She plans to only use it to keep in touch with family and close friends, so she was worried about choosing the correct privacy settings. This is something that many [...]
Facebook Adding Comments You Make to Others on Your Wall
We’ve long had “Recent Activities” show up on our Facebook Wall, right? We had all of these little snippets littering up our Wall or Page, telling the world where on the site we’ve been. However, the only thing those little messages said was that we had been there. Nothing showed up on our on Walls [...]
Have We Thrown Privacy Out The Window?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed PEHUB wrote an alarming article last Friday about a lady named Louise who they identified & tracked using Foursquare. When she was confronted with this information, how did she respond? Lamarr was shocked at her answer – are you? Reporter Leo [...]
Should Mark Zuckerberg Throw in the Towel?
Things didn’t go well for Mark Zuckerberg when he appeared on the D8 stage two days ago. From all angles, he appeared to be fumbling his way through the answers he was giving. He broke out into a cold sweat and had to remove his trademark hoodie. Bloggers around the globe took stabs at Zuck [...]
Facebook’s New Privacy Controls
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that majors changes to privacy settings on the site would begin rolling out today. The world complained – and Facebook listened. Today, Zuck strode onto the stage at the Facebook headquarters in a grey hoodie to give those assembled the run-down on the new settings. To those in attendance, [...]
Unlock Your Hotel Room with Your Cell Phone
I hate traveling. I love the places that I visit and the people I interact with when I get there. It’s the actual travel part that gets to me every time. There’s always such a rush to do everything, you know? Checking into my hotels is probably my least favorite task. God love ‘em for [...]
New Facebook Privacy Settings Tomorrow
Yesterday, we discussed the announcement from Mark Zuckerberg in which he admits that the company has made mistakes when it comes to your privacy settings. Millions of people cannot be wrong when they collectively complain about the way the popular social networking site handles their information and buries privacy settings – making them nearly impossible [...]
You Demand, Facebook Listens
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does listen when the world complains about privacy settings on the popular site. Now, he’s promising changes over the coming weeks to address the concerns, promising “a simpler way to control your information.” Zuck comes right out and admits that Facebook missed the mark when it comes to hitting the [...]
Facebook and MySpace are Giving Away Your Information to Advertisers
Tsk, tsk. Did we honestly not see this coming? The Wall Street Journal has uncovered proof that both sites – along with several other popular social networking venues – have been giving away a hell of a lot of information about you to both Yahoo and Google… despite promising that they do not. Both Google’s [...]
How Private is Facebook?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Are you leaving Facebook? With all of the concern over privacy lately, many people are choosing to close their accounts. Others are educating themselves with the changes Facebook has made and making the best choices for their profile pages. Still more [...]
Search Your Public Facebook Updates
As the World continues to talk about Facebook and their privacy practices, a couple of developers have pushed the popular site even closer to the brink of no return. Their new project, Openbook shows that every public status update you make on the site is searchable from outside of Facebook’s confines. If you search for [...]
How to Protect Your Privacy Online
Everyone is talking about privacy these days, and no one is happy with the state of things… especially when it comes to Facebook. I told you yesterday on Twitter: There are only two steps you need to follow in order to protect your privacy. Step 1 – STOP SHARING SHIT YOU DON’T WANT THE WORLD [...]
YouTube Unlisted Videos Work Well for Teachers
Melinda is a teacher in the Bay Area whose class created videos as part of a project. She and her students wanted to be able to share their media with friends and family, but no one wanted the videos to be made public. Melinda decided to reach out to YouTube to ask for a solution. [...]
Facebook and Privacy: Will the Twain Never Meet?
This guest post is contributed by Shannon Wills, she writes on the topic of Internet Service Providers . She welcomes your comments via email. It’s an issue that’s dominating headlines on the web these days; it’s raking up the muck in the world of social media; even so, Facebook doesn’t seem to be bothered about [...]
