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We saw a preview earlier this month, but now Facebook's simplified, slimmed down privacy tools should be arriving on your profile. Any minute. Take control and untag those gross pictures you didn't even know existed.
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Due to the huge popularity of Facebook and its one billion active users, bogus emails impersonating the social network are constantly hitting users' inboxes.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2333
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Facebook users will no longer be able to vote against policy changes on the website, the social network has announced.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20444678
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The Albania Pirate Group has had its Facebook page shut down by the social network, after stolen passwords were exchanged between 600+ members.
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Facebook will be launching an internal investigation following the revelation by Czech blogger Bogomil Shopov that data belonging to over one million Facebook users was offered for sale for $5.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13870
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Panda Security signed a collaboration agreement with Facebook to protect users. Facebook users will be able to download a free 6-month version of Panda Internet Security 2013 from the AV Marketplace. Additionally, both companies will share their databases of malicious URLs to protect users while surfing the Web.
Read more: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13787
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We all know that as students progress through their school years, their homework load increases. Fifteen year olds may look longingly back to when they were ten and had a whole lot less work to do at home. According to the handy infographic below, the average 6-8 year old spends 9 hours per week studying, vs. 14 hours per week for college students. That doesn’t seem so awful, especially when you consider that the average student spends 4.39 hours per day watching television. Via Alfredo Calderón
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The move to disable facial recognition tagging in Europe has scored the social network some much-needed points in an official audit.
Facebook has finally satisfied the European Union by disabling facial recognition tagging.
Last December, Facebook had promised to make the changes outlined in the audit document in order to comply with European regulations.
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Einige Anwendungen in Facebooks App-Zentrum verlangen mehr Berechtigungen als einem lieb ist. Wir sagen Ihnen, vor welchen Apps Sie sich in Acht nehmen sollten.
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Facebook has until September 4th to stop giving user info to third parties without explicit consent. Meanwhile, one observer says privacy trickery is built right into the App Center's design.
Facebook may be facing legal action if it doesn't comply by Tuesday 4 September, according to news reports.
===> Privacy laws are tighter in the EU, and Germans like to employ them. <===
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Facebook has added another acquisition to its arsenal with social bookmarking firm Spool.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2012/07/17/facebook-acquires-mobile-bookmarking-company-spool/
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Facebook may have inadvertently leaked a 'Want' button that could mimic the functionality of its 'Like' button -- and which would offer a new data bonanza for advertisers. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Webware.
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No, Graph Search doesn't affect your privacy settings, but it surely makes digging up information about you really easy. Now's a good time to review what you're sharing and how you're sharing it. Read this article by Sharon Vaknin on CNET.
Gust MEES's insight:
Privacy MATTERS!!!
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Facebook announced plans to make its privacy control settings easier to find this month, and now a series of new menus and notifications has begun to roll out to users of the social ...
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Sheryl Sandberg confirms Facebook's commitment to keeping people safe online with support for the joint declaration today between the European Commission and US Department of Homeland Security.
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In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene, and the number is growing as our online lives expand.
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Anonymous affiche son mécontentement face à Zynga en menaçant de rendre le site hors ligne et de publier gratuitement les jeux de la société.
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By Dancho Danchev Recently, cybercriminals spamvertised yet another massive email campaign, impersonating the world’s most popular social network – Facebook.
It was similar to a previously profiled spam campaign imitating Facebook. However, in this case the cybercriminals behind it relied on attached malicious archives, compared to including exploits and malware serving links in the email.
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AVG has partnered with Facebook to protect Facebook’s one billion users from the phishing and other social engineering attacks that continue to plague the community.
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Infographics on Facebook Account Valuation at $115 Per User Friend Account Social Media Networking with Billion Dollar Valuation in IPO rocking for Business...
Read more, very interesting: http://allinfographics.org/what-makes-facebook-account-to-be-valued-more-than-115-per-users/
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Facebook will disable its facial recognition tool following a review by the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland.
Facebook has suspended the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19675172
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Un adolescent de quinze ans a été condamné lundi par un tribunal néerlandais à un an de prison et trois ans dans une institution psychiatrique, la peine maximale pour un mineur, pour avoir poignardé une jeune fille du même âge suite à des...
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Facebook employs algorithms to detect suspicious behavior and bring it to the attention of the site's security team.
Yes, Facebook Scans Users' Private Conversations Looking For Sexual Predators and Child Porn
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Facebook will seine Nutzer künftig mit kostenlosen Antivirus-Programmen und Tipps vor gefährlichen Malware-Schädlingen schützen.
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