Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on Yahoo's Developer Network website, says an independent security researcher. A limited ...
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Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for ...
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Tablet2Cases.com, the Internet's definitive resource on tablet cases, today announces the release of the Free Cases Daily app for Facebook. That's right: Tablet2Cases will be giving away one of the hundreds of tablet & iPad cases on stock ...
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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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Macworld - MyCalendar Mobile, by K-Factor Media, is a simple iOS app with one purposeto help you remember your friends birthdays. Its primarily focused on Facebook friends, but it can also gather birthdays from the Contacts stored on ...
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Computerworld - Facebook may be the biggest social network in the world, but rival Google+ wins when it comes to user satisfaction. Facebook users have become increasingly unsatisfied, according to a report from the American Customer ...
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The next version of Microsoft Office, unveiled on Monday, is a dramatic departure from the software that millions of users have come to know, built for the cloud and for touch-based computing and packed with features that make it more ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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Facebook plans to start charging businesses to run targeted ads in its Facebook Offers daily deals service. The social network also is allowing businesses to add unique codes to their ads for better tracking of ad results. Facebook also ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved a settlement with Facebook related to charges that the social networking leader deceived consumers regarding the privacy of their data. The settlement stipulates that Facebook must obtain ...
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Facebook appears to be losing users in the U.S. and other major markets, though its user base in parts of Asia is growing, according to an investment company report. Facebook saw its U.S. user base drop by 0.7% over the past three months ...
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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With voting open on Facebook's proposed privacy policy changes, more than 110,000 users have weighed in -- and so far, the vote is heavily in favor of not making the change at all. Facebook historically had a rule that any proposed policy ...
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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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Secure.me has developed a website and a browser plug-in designed to make Facebook users aware of the personal information that gets harvested by third-party applications. The App Advisor Security Network website has profiles on more than ...
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