Tag: Stuff

Google Faces Potential Fines, Criminal Charges In Italy [Report]
Google continues to walk down a rocky road in Europe as it now faces fines and potential criminal charges if it does not meed requirements set by regulators in Italy. The compa...
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Netflix Toys Around With Private Viewing
Netflix is reportedly testing a new feature that would enable users to hide the titles they've been watching for fear of embarrassment. Janko Roettgers at GigaOm...
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Dakota Fanning Won’t Parade Personal Life
Dakota Fanning is insistent upon the fact that she won't parade her personal life in front of anyone's cameras. And at times the Very Good Girls star is a bit miffed at ho...
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Try Facebook’s Creepy Mood Experiment on Yourself with New Chrome Extension
Did you miss on on Facebook's controversial 2012 mood experiment that altered the makeup o...
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Facebook’s Experiment Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ Says Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has apologized to Facebook users for the unannounced and just recently unearthed psychological experiment it conducted on a small number of users back...
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Regulators Probe Facebook’s Emotion Experiment
An experiment Facebook conducted with some of its users two years ago has been getting a l...
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Actually, Facebook Changed Its Terms To Cover That Experiment After It Was Over
The plot thickens. As you may know, it has come to light that Facebook ran an experiment...
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Facebook Says It’s ‘Not Always Listening’ as Petition Against New Feature Nears 600,000 Signatures
A lot of people, both Facebook users and otherwise, don't really trust Facebook. So, when Facebook announced a new feature that can passively listen to users' background activity i...
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Hundreds of Thousands Petition Facebook to Abandon Creepy Passive Listening Feature
Given the fact that a large amount of people–users and non-users alike–have a severe distrust of Facebook and their intentions, it's not that surprising that hundreds of thousands...
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Facebook Privacy Default Now ‘Friends’ for New Users, the Rest of Us Get the Privacy Dinosaur
Facebook has just announced a small change to new user privacy and an new initiative for old user privacy that at its core, wants to make sure that people are sharing everything wi...
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Post Snowden, Tech Companies Are Much More Transparent and Protective of User Privacy
In May of 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published their third-ever "Who Has Your Back" report, which looks at major tech companies and how they stack up when it comes to...
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Google Glass Champion Has Realization at Skrillex Show
Sudden clarity Robert Scoble had a realization at a Skrillex show recently. Robert Scoble was at a Skrillex show? Yes, it was Coachella. Oh, ok. Proceed. Googl...
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FTC to Facebook: Don’t Screw with User Privacy After WhatsApp Acquisition
Today, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and WhatsApp General Counsel Anne Hoge received...
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Utah Revenge Porn Ban Signed into Law
Utah has just become the latest state to pass laws specifically banning "distributing intimate images of a person without that person's permission." These bills are generally draft...
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