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Facebook Quickly Fixed a Privacy Leak in New Timeline After Being Alerted to The Problem
Mar 20, 2013Facebook quickly fixed a privacy leak in its new timeline after being alerted to the problem, according to a watchdog that follows the social networking site closely. Europe v. Facebook, an Austrian student organization that has filed ...
Tags: Facebook, social networking, privacy leak
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Facebook Deleted All European Facial Recognition Data After Reviewing Parts of Social Code
Feb 17, 2013Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data, the Irish data protection commissioner and a German data protection regulator confirmed independently Thursday after reviewing parts of the social network's source code. "We ...
Tags: Facebook, data protection, social network
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Facebook Has Launched an Expanded Privacy Education Campaign for New Users
Dec 31, 2012Facebook 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, in an announcement on the site ...
Tags: Facebook, privacy education campaign, US, Social Media
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The Privacy Campaign Group Made Its Threat on Tuesday
Dec 28, 2012Privacy 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 ...
Tags: Facebook, Irish Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, privacy policies
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Facebook Shares Personal Data with Third-Party App Makers Without Getting Users'permission
Dec 19, 2012German consumer organisations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a users’ chat as ...
Tags: data sharing, Facebook, Facebook sued, privacy, social media
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Facebook Has Launched an Expanded Privacy Education Campaign for New Users
Dec 19, 2012Facebook 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 ...
Tags: Facebook, privacy, Web privacy, Privacy Education
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German Consumer Organizations Are Suing Facebook
Dec 7, 2012IDG News Service-German consumer organizations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a ...
Tags: German consumer organizations, Facebook, social network, personal data
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Facebook Will Suspend Its Facial Recognition Photo Tagging Service in Europe by 15 October
Sep 24, 2012Facebook 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 ...
Tags: Facebook, photo tagging tool, registered users, privacy issues
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Facebook Has Been Ordered to Turn off Face Recognition Technology by Billy Hawkes
Sep 24, 2012Facebook has been ordered by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner,Billy Hawkes,to turn off its face recognition feature. However Facebook intends the disabling of the face recognition tool to be only temporary."Our intention is to ...
Tags: Facebook, Recognition, Irish
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Facebook Will Delete All Facial Recognition Data It Stores About Its European Users
Sep 21, 2012Facebook will delete all facial recognition data it stores about its European users,going beyond recommendations of the Irish data protection authority,the agency said on Friday. Facebook has complied with most,but not all,of the ...