Sharing is good. We teach our kids to share their toys and chocolate. But, Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, that does’t mean sharing everything with everybody automatically is really such a good idea.
Internet privacy
Privacy issues on Facebook: it’s not all bad
While Facebook continues to attract condemnation for its contentious privacy policies, the social networking website may also be providing valuable lessons to young’uns about how to manage their online reputations, says Esther Dyson.
Facebook’s new privacy controls: the good, the bad and the ugly
Facebook has caved in to public pressure and reworked its privacy controls. But are users actually gaining anything back, or just a false sense of security? Valleywag breaks it down.
Facebook CEO: We stuffed up
Amidst the torrent of criticism raining down upon Facebook over its privacy policy, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pens a mea culpa in the Washington Post: “We just missed the mark.”
Why the end of privacy may not be so bad after all
Yes, the internet has killed privacy — at least as we know it — but a world with no secrets is a far more interesting place, says Steven Johnson.
Openbook: airing Facebook’s dirty laundry
Openbook is a new project that allows you to search Facebook’s publicly available user data to see all the skeletons in its 500 million online closets — including yours.
How to quit Facebook (without actually quitting Facebook)
So you want to ditch Facebook over their privacy policy and because all the cool kids are doing it — but you still want to see embarrassing pictures of your friends? Lifehacker explains how.
May 31 is “Quit Facebook Day”
Amidst growing concerns about Facebook’s privacy policy, more and more users are committing “Facebook Suicide” and deleting their accounts altogether. Now the movement has its own D-day: May 31.
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Unravelling Facebook’s privacy tangle
The NYT charts Facebook’s “bewildering” array of privacy controls — 50 settings with over 170 different options. And you slack off on Facebook to avoid work…
Everyone’s ditching Facebook
Tech expert and TV presenter Leo Laporte has become the latest in a string of high-profile nerds to quit Facebook, after getting fed up with what they see as the site’s ongoing erosion of users’ privacy.
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A simple but rather scary interactive infographic showing how the privacy of your personal data on Facebook has been eroded over the past five years.
Facebook is effed. Let’s start again
“Drunk” on power, Facebook has finally gone one step too far in breaching our privacy, says Ryan Singel. It’s time for the tech community to fight back with a viable, open alternative.
Silicon Valley’s secret police squad
When the Gizmodo editor’s house was raided recently over the leaked iPhone, it was done by a shadowy outfit called the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team. So what is it, and who’s in charge?
10 reasons to delete your Facebook account
Dan Yoder is deleting his Facebook account — and you should, too. Sure, Farmville is fun, but the company is unethical, incompetent, and doesn’t care about your privacy.
Spy on your kids like the pros
How do security professionals monitor their kids’ internet and mobile phone usage? Professionals explain how to totally destroy your teenager’s privacy and social life.
The tech industry’s dirty little secrets
PC World lists 21 things “they” don’t want you to know — and how to get around them: spying ISPs, the printer ink price scam, hacked pacemakers, what Google knows about you, and more.
Arrington: Reputation is dead
Your reputation has been ruined, says Michael Arrington: yep, yours and everyone else on the internet. Twitter and Facebook have made it too difficult to keep those skeletons in your closet, so quit fighting it and embrace a future of anti-anonymity.
The FBI: In ur computer, readin ur history
The FBI is pressing US Internet Service Providers to track and record users’ internet browsing history, in what sounds like it would basically amount to mandatory wiretapping of almost every person in America.
The 3 privacy setting every Facebook user should change
Don’t let your boss, kids or Google-stalking former classmates see your drunken photos and Robert Patterson fan-page on Facebook. Follow this five-minute guide to keeping your private details just that.
A how-to guide for living in countries with no internet privacy
Lifehacker has a great guide to staying safe and protected online while living, working and travelling in countries where privacy isn’t respected — say, oh I don’t know… China?
Google: a goldmine for authoritarian governments
The recent hacking attack on Google in China is proof of what privacy activists have been worrying about for years: that Google has created a “honey pot” of information, bound to attract the interests of authoritarian governments.
Crikey Says: Google means business in China, not the thwarting of evil
Don’t think for a minute that Google are defying China out of the goodness of their own heart.
Facebook goes fascist
Facebook’s widely derided new privacy policy isn’t just a case of poor judgment, says Valleywag: it’s a very calculated move to control your privacy — and a massive betrayal of users’ trust. Facebook has turned evil.
Google Dashboard: what is it and do you really need it?
Google has released its latest toy: Google Dashboard, a one-stop-shop for users to access all their Google-related junk (gmail, Google docs, chat, etc). It’s neat, and potentially time-saving, but do you really want so much personal data in one place?
Revealed: the most common Hotmail password
After examining more than 10,000 Hotmail passwords that were leaked this week, a bit of research has revealed the most popular password of choice. And surprisingly, it’s not ‘password’.
