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FTC May Require Facebook Privacy Features Be Opt-In

Nov 10, 2011 4:33 PM CST

FTC May Require Facebook Privacy Features Be Opt-In

Settlement also reportedly calls for 20 years of privacy audits

(Newser) - Facebook and the FTC are apparently near a settlement over allegations that the social network misled users when it altered privacy settings in 2009. Under the settlement, Facebook would need “express affirmative consent” to make “material retroactive changes,” insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . Translation from Business ...

Divorcing Couple Told to Swap Facebook Passwords

Nov 10, 2011 12:45 AM CST

Divorcing Couple Told to Swap Facebook Passwords

Judge orders pair to surrender access to social sites

(Newser) - A judge has ordered a feuding Connecticut couple to turn their passwords for Facebook and dating sites over to each other's divorce lawyers. The unusual order was issued after the husband claimed that his soon-to-be ex-wife's Facebook account contained evidence that would help him win full custody of...

Gen Y on Jobs: Facebook Access Trumps Fat Salary

survey says

Nov 9, 2011 1:22 PM CST

Gen Y on Jobs: Facebook Access Trumps Fat Salary

40% of students would take less pay in exchange for social media freedoms

(Newser) - If you employ a lot of 20-somethings, don’t block their access to Facebook—they might revolt. Today’s young people value access to the Internet and social media extremely highly, according to a new Cisco report, which surveyed 1,400 students and 1,400 young professionals aged 21-29. Among...

Facebook Removes
'Rape Joke' Pages

Nov 9, 2011 2:46 AM CST

Facebook Removes 'Rape Joke' Pages

Women's groups weren't laughing

(Newser) - Following months of pressure from women's rights group, Facebook has finally removed a series of "rape joke" pages. "There is no place on Facebook for content that is hateful, threatening, or incites violence," said the company after the pages were pulled. But some of the pages...

CIA 'Vengeful Librarians' Watch Twitter, Facebook

Nov 4, 2011 2:30 PM CDT

CIA 'Vengeful Librarians' Watch Twitter, Facebook

They aim to gather 'open source' intelligence

(Newser) - Somewhere in Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are hunched over computers right now, reading Twitter and Facebook posts. This team—affectionately dubbed the “vengeful librarians”—monitors some 5 million social media posts a day, looking for signs of unrest and a general read on the zeitgeist overseas, the...

Facebook:
600K Logins
'Compromised'
Every Day

Oct 29, 2011 6:57 AM CDT

Facebook: 600K Logins 'Compromised' Every Day

Data revealed in new security announcement

(Newser) - Facebook was hoping to impress with new security procedures unveiled this week, but a lot of people were more impressed with a stat buried in the announcement. In rolling out its "Trusted Friends" password restoration program, Facebook boasted in an infographic that "only 0.06 percent of 1...

Sean Parker: It's
Tough Being
in the 1%

Oct 28, 2011 5:46 AM CDT

Sean Parker: It's Tough Being in the 1%

Being rich brings new problems, tech billionaire complains

(Newser) - Billionaire tech investor Sean Parker has taken to Twitter to complain about the downside of being rich. “I have a whole new set of problems to deal with now: security, extortion attempts, kidnapping threats, death threats, etc. Life better b4?" the former Facebook president tweeted, offering his thoughts on...

Facebook Expands ...
on Edge of Arctic Circle

Oct 27, 2011 7:53 AM CDT

Facebook Expands ... on Edge of Arctic Circle

Company to open a data center in Lulea, Sweden

(Newser) - Facebook's quest for world domination is taking it to the edge of the Arctic Circle. The company today confirmed that it plans to open a new server farm in Lulea, Sweden—its first outside the US. The city, located just 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle, is a...

Google Looking to Buy Yahoo

Oct 23, 2011 8:59 AM CDT

Google Looking to Buy Yahoo

Google wants more users for Google+, more advertising markets

(Newser) - Google is trying to buy rival Yahoo and has talked to at least two private equity firms about financing the deal, reports the Wall Street Journal . Despite Internet ad revenues soaring around 20% a year, Yahoo revenue has foundered for several years, spurring talk the Internet giant could go private...

More Facebook Friends
Linked to Bigger Brains

Oct 19, 2011 6:12 PM CDT

Google Engineer Rips Google+

Service 'a knee-jerk reaction' to Facebook's success, Steve Yegge complains

(Newser) - While using Google+, senior Google engineer Steve Yegge accidentally shared a post heavily criticizing the company's social networking service with the general public instead of just his co-workers, the Huffington Post reports. He described Google+ as an example of the company's "complete failure to understand platforms,"...

Court to Winklevoss Twins: Pay Your $13M Legal Tab

Oct 12, 2011 10:48 AM CDT

Court to Winklevoss Twins: Pay Your $13M Legal Tab

They tried to get out of paying up on malpractice grounds

(Newser) - Those poor Winklevoss twins. First courts forced them to stick with their original $65 million settlement with Facebook, and now a court has declared that they must actually pay their lawyer for negotiating it. The twins had tried to get out of paying their law firm its $13 million contingency...

What Job-Seekers
Shouldn't Post
on Facebook

survey shows

Oct 8, 2011 1:33 PM CDT

What Job-Seekers Shouldn't Post on Facebook

...and what employers want to see

(Newser) - We’ve all heard the horror stories of Facebook profiles that keep people from being hired. Indeed, 91% of employers screen potential employees using the service, a survey finds. So just what is it, exactly, that employers don’t want to see? The survey , by online reputation-protection service Reppler , reveals...

SEAL Widow's Hunt for Lost Ring Goes Viral on Facebook

Oct 7, 2011 12:57 PM CDT

SEAL Widow's Hunt for Lost Ring Goes Viral on Facebook

Search for missing wedding band goes viral

(Newser) - Kimberly Vaughn is getting some serious help—or at least good wishes—as she looks for her lost wedding ring. Vaughn's husband, Aaron, was a Navy SEAL killed in August when the Taliban shot down a helicopter in Afghanistan. Kimberly noticed her ring was missing on Oct. 1—the...

Man Allegedly Hits Wife Who Didn't 'Like' Facebook Post

Oct 7, 2011 10:10 AM CDT

Man Allegedly Hits Wife Who Didn't 'Like' Facebook Post

'Everyone likes my status but you,' Benito Apolinar tells estranged spouse

(Newser) - It's a bad day for bizarre violence. Earlier, we heard about karaoke-inspired fisticuffs ; now an apparent Facebook-based argument has led to an attack. A Texas man who reportedly said he was furious at his estranged wife for not "liking" his Facebook status allegedly punched her in the face...

Egyptian 'Facebook Girl' Could Win Nobel Tomorrow

Oct 6, 2011 4:21 PM CDT

Egyptian 'Facebook Girl' Could Win Nobel Tomorrow

Esraa Abdel Fattah organized protests, spent time in jail

(Newser) - She spent weeks in jail after organizing a key strike to protest the government; now, the Egyptian woman once known as “Facebook Girl” is up for the Nobel Peace Prize. But it’s not about her, Esraa Abdel Fattah tells the Christian Science Monitor . “If I win this,...

Facebook Delays
Timeline Launch
in Battle Over
Name

Oct 3, 2011 10:58 AM CDT

Facebook Delays Timeline Launch in Battle Over Name

Another site has 'timeline' rights

(Newser) - Whether you’re dreading it or desperate for it , you’ll have to wait at least a few more days to use Facebook’s new Timeline . There’s already an online firm called Timelines, and it’s not happy about the plan: The company, whose service is similar to what...

Devices Spy
on You 24
Hours a Day

Oct 2, 2011 2:54 PM CDT

Devices Spy on You 24 Hours a Day

Personal data sells for billions of dollars

(Newser) - Companies are observing nearly every move you make and selling your personal data for billions of dollars—and Washington appears helpless to stop them, the Los Angeles Times reports. Whether it's your smart phone, cable box, Facebook page, or video game, devices are amassing reams of data on your...

Everyone Who
Unfriended You
Hidden Again

Everyone Who Unfriended You Hidden Again

Timeline made it easy to see who'd cut you off

(Newser) - If you haven’t done it yet, looks like you’ve missed your window to find out who has unfriended you on Facebook . Last week, a list of friends available in the Timeline profile pages made it clear who had removed you as a friend; they were the ones in...

Lawmakers
Want FTC
to Investigate
Facebook

Sep 29, 2011 6:30 AM CDT

Lawmakers Want FTC to Investigate Facebook

Letter cites more privacy concerns over tracking of cookies

(Newser) - Two longtime critics of Facebook on Capitol Hill want the FTC to investigate the company over new privacy allegations, reports Politico . Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Joe Barton sent their letter after an Australian blogger reported that Facebook keeps collecting data on users even after they are logged out. Gawker...

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