Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands of user accounts. The malicious hacking group known as GNAA claimed responsibility. The ...
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Facebook said Monday it has defenses in place to detect click fraud despite one company's claim it detected suspicious clicks on its advertisements billed to it by the social-networking site. Limited Run, a company based in Manorville, ...
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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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Computerworld - Congress might need to pass legislation to limit the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said recently. The growing use of facial recognition ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology ...
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Facebook said on Monday that data collected from its partnership with loyalty-card tracker Datalogix shows people are swayed to make purchases after merely viewing an ad, even if they did not click on it. The social-networking site, which ...
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Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data processing platform. Engineers at the ...
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Facebook has begun warning users whose computers are infected with the DNSChanger malware, a variant of the Zlob family of Trojans. The malware is designed to tell the infected computer to use a rogue Domain Name System (DNS) server, ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has proposed a revised settlement in a lawsuit in which it was alleged to have used the names and likeness of the plaintiffs without their prior consent in "Sponsored Stories" advertisements shown to their online ...
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US President Barack Obama has promised to fight for a free internet, during a question and answer session on social networking site Reddit. Barack Obama posted an “ask me anything” invitation on Reddit about an hour before ...
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Instagram is preparing to start selling its users' own photos, according to its updated privacy policy published this week. The new policy for the photo-sharing service suggests that members' photos may be sold to advertisers in paid ...
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The hand of government is not all that heavy on businesses when it comes to notification requirements about data breaches that affect personal information. And it looks like it won't get much heavier, even if a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. ...
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Social network Google+, which turned a year old at the end of June, has seen its user base take a dramatic jump in the past six to seven months, according to comScore, an Internet traffic monitor. According to comScore, total unique ...
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The Norwegian Data Protection Agency is planning to launch an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition feature this fall, a spokesman said on Monday. Last year, Facebook added the ability to use facial recognition technology to ...
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