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Burglars Use Facebook Statuses to Target Victims

Posted on September 13, 2010 3:07 PM

A burglary ring in Nashua, N.H. targeted victims by monitoring their status updates on Facebook. The ring was uncovered when... more


Federal Court Ruled that Not Public Facebook Content is Protected

Posted on June 9, 2010 1:46 PM

A California federal court ruled that nonpublic Facebook communications and content is protected by the Stored Communications Act and cannot... more


Social Networking Services are Treasure Trove for Civil Cases

Posted on June 8, 2010 8:51 AM

Unlimited data retention and information sharing policies of social networking service providers are creating privacy problems for users. Attorney's in... more


Facebook's "I Like" Button Opens Surveillance

Posted on June 2, 2010 11:32 AM

The "I Like" button popping up on commercial and news organizations' websites violate basic privacy rights of online users, such... more


Facebook Once Again Makes Promises to Fix Self Created Consumer Privacy Problems

Posted on May 25, 2010 10:30 AM

Tomorrow is the day that Facebook will unveil its latest solution for repairing damage it rendered to customer privacy when... more


EPIC Files Facebook FTC Complaint and Sends Letter to Congress

Posted on May 9, 2010 9:06 PM

EPIC filed an FTC complaint on the most recent actions taken by Facebook to compromise user privacy. EPIC also sent... more


Facebook At it Again: Privacy Policy Change to Share User Data

Posted on March 29, 2010 2:18 PM

Facebook and the definition of privacy is still searching for a connection. Facebook once again changed its privacy policy to... more


Facebook's Beacon Privacy Violation Makes it 9M Richer

Posted on March 18, 2010 5:36 PM

Facebook offered to settle all lawsuits that resulted from its failed Beacon application, which violated users' privacy. The Beacon application... more


Facebook Looking to Share Location Data

Posted on March 12, 2010 2:10 PM

Facebook is reported to be ready to release a new application that would share location information on its 400 million... more


Facebook Forced to Face the Music on Changes to User Settings

Posted on February 10, 2010 9:49 PM

More lawsuits filed against Facebook following its decision last year to change some user settings and making public online associations... more


Facebook CEO Says If He Could Do It Again: All Users' Pages Would Be Public

Posted on January 19, 2010 5:49 PM

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator and CEO said that if he had it to do over again users' content would be... more

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