Mark Scott reports: Europe likes to think it leads the world in protecting people’s privacy, and that is particularly true for the region’s so-called right to be forgotten. That legal right allows people connected to the Continent to ask the likes of Google to remove links about themselves from online search results, under certain conditions. Yet that right…
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Google will make it easier to change privacy controls
AP reports: Soon, all you’ll need to do is Google yourself if you’re wondering how deeply Google has been digging into your digital life. In coming weeks, a shortcut to personal account information will appear at the top of Google’s search results whenever logged-in users enter their own names in the query box. The feature…
KSL-TV Unlike: Tenants fume over apartment complex’s new Facebook addendum
Joe Cadillic sends along this outrageous situation from Utah. File it in your “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!” files. Mike Anderson reports: Some tenants at a Salt Lake City apartment complex are fuming over a new lease agreement that requires tenants to “like” the complex on Facebook. Tenants of the City Park Apartments told KSL that…
Facebook Will Now Track You and Force Feed You Ads Even If You Don’t Use It
Jamie Condliffe reports: There is no escaping Facebook’s advertising reach. The social network has announced that it will now be foisting ads on to every single person who uses third-party sites that are signed up to its advertising scheme, regardless of whether the user has a Facebook account or not. Read more on Gizmodo. h/t,…