Facebook has strenuously denied reports that old private messages are popping up in users’ timelines on the site. The reports appear to have originated in France, where Facebook says it rolled out the Timeline feature, on Monday. Facebook representatives will be hauled up before the French data protection agency, the CNIL, later on Tuesday. “Press [...]
French Facebook Users In a Fury Believing Old Private Messages Exposed
September 25, 2012 | Posted by
Google Still In Possession of Data, Thought Destroyed, Collected from Street Mapping Cars
July 27, 2012 | Posted by
In May 2010, Google hit the headlines when it was revealed that street mapping cars had accidentally collected around 600GB of payload data from unsecured wireless networks around the globe. The news caused a privacy storm and led to legal actions in numerous countries. In the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took a [...]
Is Your ‘Facebook Parenting’ Sacrificing Your Children’s Right to Privacy?
May 25, 2012 | Posted by
Today’s 30-somethings are the first generation whose children are coming of age alongside the social Web. Technology is making an indelible imprint on modern parenting, and there is a sense that our data, our personal information, are no longer within our control. But new research findings indicate that openness and information sharing are a way [...]
