Tag: Stuff

Revenge Porn Site and Its Host GoDaddy Face Class-Action Lawsuit
Operating on the outskirts of morality in porn (an already hard-to-define gradient), so-called "revenge porn" sites host images and videos of what are described as "exes." Basicall...
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Facebook Graph Search, Your Privacy, and What You Can Do
Facebook just launched something new. That's all you have to say, really. That in and of itself is enough to get people riled up about their privacy, or how Facebook is screwing wi...
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Sex Offenders Win Right To Online Anonymity
A federal judge has blocked a California bill that would take away sex offenders' ability to anonymously use email, social media, instant messaging and various other web sites and...
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FTC Strengthens Online Privacy Rules For Children
As has been documented many times before, us adults on the Internet really have no privacy. Advertisers...
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Facebook Graph Search And Privacy
Facebook unveiled Graph Search today. Many are probably wondering what this means for pri...
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Instagram’s New Privacy Policies Take Effect on Saturday
Just a friendly reminder: those new Instagram policies that caused such a ruckus back in December go into effect this Saturday, January 19th (but without the clause that caused mos...
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Report: Google Sued Again Over Google Buzz Privacy
MediaPost is reporting that three Gmail users filed a lawsuit against Go...
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Instagram Users Sent to Facebook When Reporting Other Users
Facebook assured Instagram users that their experience with the service wouldn't change post-acquisition, and that Instagram would continue to "grow independently." While Facebook...
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FISA Sponsor Says Domestic Spy Program Must Be Kept Secret For A Secret Reason
Five more years of warrantless surveillance at the hands of the NSA and other spy agencies was signed into law before the new year thanks to the quick passage of FISA. We already d...
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Will Facebook’s Privacy Woes Grow in 2013?
Facebook cannot win the privacy issue. The company thrives on allowing advertisers to target their potential customers with pinpoint accuracy, and that takes highly personal data....
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Instagram Apologizes for Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Instagram is not going to sell your photos. Instagram was never going...
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Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Settings Globally
It's official. You should be seeing Facebook's new privacy controls popping up any time now. The company has...
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Facebook Starts Rolling Out New Privacy Settings in New Zealand
New Zealand, that fertile testing ground for experimental and upcoming Facebook features, has just begun to receive the company's recently announced privacy settings additions. Fa...
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Kim Kardashian, Like Many, Totally Misunderstands Instagram’s Policy Changes
Now look what you did Instagram - you went and pissed off your most popular user. That's right, the eternally-newsworthy Kim Kardash...
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FTC Updates Child Online Privacy Rules
The United States Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (otherwise known as COPPA Rule). Ac...
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