Recently, the FBI busted the founders of the file hosting service MegaUpload.com for copyright infringement on a massive scale. Now it looks like the the government agency is in the market for a social media application to help them foresee and respond to crises.
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The congressional push to regulate how, when and why online advertisers collect, monitor and store your data intensified Wednesday with the introduction of a second piece of legislation in as many days and the beginnings of a turf battle among Republicans in the House.
Remember your last post on MySpace, your last tag on Facebook or that tweet you wrote two months ago? Have any idea when you last updated your LinkedIn account or Match.com profile? Maybe not, but advertisers, identity thieves and online tracking companies sure do. Not to mention potential employers, family and friends. That may sound like a major breach of privacy, but is it really worth the time, and money, to erase your ‘digital footprint’?
What if the only online ads that reached your eyes were for items you might actually be interested in? And what if online advertisers knew what items you might actually be interested in based solely on the content of your emails? Now we know, courtesy of Google.
The buzz surrounding Google’s Buzz is officially over. The online search giant has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over claims that it used deceptive tactics and violated privacy policies when it introduced the controversial social networking service last year.
We don’t have problems, just solutions. That, in a nustshell, is the glass half-full view Facebook is taking to Washington as lawmakers zero in on the company’s online privacy practices. The question: Will lawmakers, and Facebook users like you, buy it?
MeMap is a new app that compiles all of your and your friends’ social check-ins, from Facebook to Foursquare, Loopt and beyond, and streams them onto one singular map, personalized, and in real-time. Should this scare you?
The man widely known as one of “The Fathers of the Internet” has spoken out about online privacy. He’s called for new “social rules of order,” so what does that mean for you?
If the privacy policy of your favorite social network was laid out like the fat grams, calories and protein on the back of your favorite packaged food, would you actually read it? Would it make you think twice about what you consume online?
What happens in Europe, stays in Europe? Maybe not when it comes to online privacy regulations for your favorite social networks.
