Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is having his own privacy invaded in a manner of speaking as a new film is set to release this October that paints the Harvard dropout in a less than flattering light. Critics say that ‘The Social Network’ portrays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a “borderline-autistic conniver” and a “ruthless and [...]
Facebook, Zuckerberg, Privacy and Hollywood
May 17th, 2010Google Admits ‘Unpreparedness’ for ‘Privacy Expectations’
February 20th, 2010Google is facing up to the fact that they handled the buzz about their new social network tool ‘Buzz’ with slightly less efficiency than they could have, but defend themselves by pointing out that they had been using the app internally for months with no issues. Of course, the average Google employee is probably no [...]
EU Data Retention Limit Goes Into Effect at Bing
January 20th, 2010Bing announced on the Bing Community blog: Today we sent a letter to the Article 29 Working Party notifying them of our intention to make a change to Bing’s data retention policy. Specifically, we are reducing the amount of time we store IP addresses from searchers to 6 months. Currently we keep that information for [...]
Facebook Photo Controversy
July 25th, 2009What is it with Facebook and user uproar? Policy changes never seem to run smoothly for them – and it is taking a toll on the social network’s reputation. In this case, however, it wasn’t Facebook, but a third party application causing dismay. Barry Schnitt spoke up on the Facebook blog, trying to debunk some [...]
Twitter Hack Raises Concerns for Social Network
July 16th, 2009TechCrunch and several other resources have been given some confidential Twitter docs. Michael Arrington walks the fence deciding what to do: (from his post Here’s a dilemma: The guy (”Hacker Croll”) who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to [...]