Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2011
Major media companies discovered pirating. See below.
Amazon Granted Location Tracking Patent
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/1354245/amazon-granted-location-tracking-patent
Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you'll go
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57342567/amazon-big-brother-patent-knows-where-youll-go/
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0632236/sony-universal-and-fox-caught-pirating-through-bittorrent
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0439226/judge-orders-man-to-delete-revenge-blog
Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0615207/wikipedia-debates-strike-over-sopa
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/2347241/carrier-iq-responds-to-fbi-drama-eff-wants-more-information
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/2321224/24-year-old-asks-facebook-for-his-data-gets-1200-pdfs
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Facebook Keeps Shadow Profiles on Non-Users
This article started out as a report on the supposed shadow profiles that Facebook keeps on non-users. The arc of the story is clear: Some people choose not to have Facebook accounts because they don't trust the company or its web site, but if Facebook keeps secret data caches on non-users then it is up to something more than just providing a service. Here are some of the stories:
Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
and the actual document of the complaint:
Facebook Building 'Shadow Profiles' of Non-Members, Experts Allege
Facebook is 'building shadow profiles of NON-users', says complaint to privacy watchdog
[Whoops, that was two Murdoch links back to back. Here is an independent voice.]
Facebook Ireland accused of creating 'shadow profiles' on users, nonusers
Of course, Facebook says that it is not keeping profiles of non-users. It does admit to keeping names and emails and linking them to people who are users.
Facebook denies “Shadow Profile” claims; Risks €100k privacy fine
I started thinking about Facebook's claim. If they only keep name and email, that is more than most us would like, but it could be a lot less than all the rest of these background investigation sites have:
pipl.com
www.intelius.com
www.spokeo.com
www.peoplefinders.com
www.anywho.com
www.whowhere.com
www.zabasearch.com
www.peoplesmart.com
www.beenverified.com
backgroundsearch.com
www.peoplerecords.com
www.backgroundpi.com
www.snoopstation.com
Every single one of these sites keeps a "shadow profile" on millions of people. So is Facebook any worse? Or should we be just as alarmed at spokeo or pipl or snoopstation?
One thing that is different is that Facebook keeps social network data. Spokeo may not have any links data connecting Smith with Johnson. Or they might. But we know for sure that Facebook does, and that its plans for using network data are more sophisticated than what we've seen from the public records publishers in the past.
Background on backgrounds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_check
Another Facebook Spill
The funny thing about this one is someone used the exploit and then showed photos from Mark Zuckerberg's own account to prove that the exploit worked.
Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos
There are dozens of news reports with this story, from CBS, Perez Hilton, Slate, Forbes, Times of India, NY Post, slashdot, The Age, PC Mag, and the list goes on and on.
Just search for "zuckerberg private photos" on Google.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Facebook Helping Stalkers to Do Better - A Links Collection
aka "Facebook is Stalin and the Gestapo's Favorite Web App"
What is "good" creepy? (in response to Sean Parker saying that Facebook was "good creepy")
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Questions Privacy Expectations
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