Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. Facebook’s purchase of FriendFeed, an obscure social-media platform, is potentially momentous. To understand why, we must understand FriendFeed, a start-up that is ubiquitous among techies and unknown to everybody else. It’s a sleek application that acts as…
Category: Online
More seek privacy from Google book search settlement
Concerns about Google Book Search and its potential effects on reader privacy are spreading widely in the wake of the joint action alert issued by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California. Copyright scholar Pam Samuelson recently investigated the scope of the settlement in an editorial titled “The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement,”…
Malaysia to cancel Internet filter-source
Malaysia’s government on Thursday said it would seek other ways of curbing “the spread of lies and seditious materials” online after earlier plans for an Internet filter were apparently scrapped. A source had earlier told Reuters the government was cancelling a tender for Internet filter that drew comparisons with China’s “Green Dam” project and triggered…
Lawsuit against Tagged.com
Two California residents have sued social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly duping them into sharing their email contacts and then sending those contacts misleading ads. […] The lawsuit comes several weeks after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he intended to sue Tagged for false advertising, invasion of privacy and engaging in a…