Robert Fellmeth, a professor of public-interest law and director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, writes: A class-action settlement covers adult users of Facebook, but also 11 million teenagers whose need for privacy is underlined by their immaturity and the angst when they discover their posts or photos…
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Say WHAT? Priest who complains to Facebook about trolls has his info given to trolls
Peter Devlin and Aneeta Bhole report: A priest who posted a picture of a sign at his church that read ‘Bless the Burqa’ is outraged after his personal information was handed to trolls by Facebook. Father Rod Bower posted a picture of him standing in front the sign at his Anglican Parish in Gosford, north…
Police to arrest people based on ‘Sentiment Analysis’ of their Tweets
Joe Cadillic writes: Researchers at the University of Salamanca (USAL) have developed a ‘Sentiment Analysis’(SA) algorithm that monitorsTwitter and Facebook. Psychologist, Paul Ekman has worked with the CIA, DOD and DHS for years, helping develop facial emotion detection, click here to read more. Our government is also using ‘Emotive Analytics‘ (EA), to arrest and imprison innocent people! Ekman has provided training to a whole series…
Facebook’s privacy chief insists Facebook is ‘a privacy-enhancing platform’
Aaron Sankin interviewed Facebook’s chief privacy honcho, Erin Egan, who was brought in to build Facebook a new privacy program from scratch. Read the interview on The Daily Dot.