Instagram has denied that it will start selling its users' photos, and tried to explain its updated privacy policy as it aims to put its disillusioned user base at ease. The website, which has about 100 million users, with roughly a third ...
Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook has said the new privacy education ...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 30, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Social media is part of everyday life. At Silvers, Langsam & Weitzman, P.C., we maintain a blog, make status updates on Facebook and Tweet regularly. We understand that social media is a ...
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Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but the Microsoft-owned service says the sham calls are decreasing. The automated calls feature a ...
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Attackers can abuse Facebook’s phone search feature to find valid phone numbers and the name of their owners, according to security researchers. The attack is possible because Facebook doesn’t limit the number of phone number ...
Tags: Facebook, highlightedpost, Mark Zuckerberg, Phone number search, privacy
Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. “The ability to search for a person by phone number ...
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Investment bank Investec sees social media as part of the insider threat to information security, but has implemented policies and technologies to make it work. “Staff members are probably one of the biggest threats,” David ...
Despite Facebook users losing out on a privacy policy vote earlier this week,the social network moved today to make its privacy tools easier for users to take advantage of. Facebook updated its privacy settings,adding shortcuts,an ...
Tags: Facebook, privacy settings, social network, Instagram
FACEBOOK has unveiled simplified tools for protecting privacy and making it easier for users whose pictures are on display to ask friends to remove them. Facebook privacy "kit" updates that will begin rolling out next week include ...
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Facebook is to makechanges to its privacy controlsto make it easier to manage settings and enable users to review every publicly available image. The updates include privacy shortcuts, an improved activity log and a new request and ...
While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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Most US citizens do not want any information collected about which websites they visit, according to a survey by the University of California. But nearly 90% of those polled said they had never heard of the do not track (DNT) mechanism, ...
Tags: US, personalised advertising, proposed mechanism, DNT function
IDG News Service - Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile Numbers, functionality
Facebook will suspend its facial recognition photo tagging service in Europe by 15 October,following a privacy audit by the Irish Data Protection Commission(DPC). The technology,which suggests when registered users could be tagged in ...
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