Facebook seems to be getting a lot of exercise in backpedalling and concession-making this month. Not only did the company put its plans to share contact details with application developers on hold and make concessions to the South Korean government, but now it’s made concessions to the German data protection agency: Data protection officials in…
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Dear John: You’ve Been Scanned
Michael Miner writes: This is going to be very hard to write now, and after what was said last night you probably don’t even want me to write anything. So began a painstakingly composed yearbook inscription written about half a century ago by a graduating high school senior to the boy she was saying good-bye…
Facebook Will Change Privacy Options in South Korea
First they charge Google criminally over the WiFi debacle, and now this: Facebook, the first online social network, said that it will change some privacy options in South Korea, after the communications regulator demanded greater protection of user information. Said today the Communications Commission of South Korea (KCC), Facebook has agreed to add new features…
DuckDuckGo.com’s billboard challenges Google on privacy
Joseph N. DiStefano reports: DuckDuckGo.com, the stripped-down, Google-alternative Internet search site that Valley Forge resident Gabriel Weinberg started in 2008, is looking more like a business. […] What’s wrong with Google? Many users don’t realize how the search terms they put into that popular search engine are collected at the sites they visit, Weinberg said…