Eric F. Barton, Esq. of Seyfarth Shaw LLP writes: There is no question that social media privacy issues now permeate the workplace. In an attempt to provide further guidance and regulation in this area, since April 2012, a growing number of state legislatures in the United States have passed various forms of social media privacy…
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Facebook wasn’t great at respecting privacy in the first place. It’s gotten much worse.
Henry Farrell reports: Facebook’s privacy practices have always been controversial. It doesn’t charge its users–because its users are the product. The company sells information on its users, their social networks, services they like, and a multitude of other forms of information to advertisers and marketers. This gives Facebook a strong incentive to push privacy boundaries constantly, since the…
NJ Court Decision Protects Anonymity of Online Commenters
Donald Scarinci reports: A New Jersey appeals court recently ruled that NJ.com does not have to reveal the identity of an online commenter. It also confirmed that the newspaper had standing to assert the anonymous poster’s First Amendment rights. […] In the latest case, Diane Trawinski, the wife of former Elmwood Park borough councilman Rich…
Facebook API Security Flaw Left 1.44 Billion Users’ Identities at Risk
Farzan Hussain writes: Hackers can use a security exploit in Facebook to “decrypt and sniff out” IDs of Facebook users by using one of the vulnerable Facebook API. Allowing them to gain access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users including their name, location, phone number, pictures and other personal data. Read more on HackRead – and…