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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 5:00 pm ET
Facebook's new privacy policy was rolled out this week and although we have known for months that it was coming it grabbed a lot of headline attention just the same. Of course, there were plenty of complaints from users about various aspects of the changes, so Facebook has already made some tweaks. In other news, Intel's Larrabee delay, announced last week, carried over into this week.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 4:51 pm ET
Facebook has again changed how it describes its new privacy options, which began rolling out to the service's 350 million users just two days ago. The company has now changed a blog post describing how users can protect the contents of the Friends List from becoming public.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 4:10 pm ET
Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 2:35 pm ET
Facebook is tinkering again with privacy settings; this time giving you simplified yet powerful controls that help you get a better handle on what you share. The downside is the same controls could reveal a great deal more about yourself than ever before if you are not careful. Here is a look at the changes and how you might be affected:
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Bloomberg - Sat Dec 12, 12:57 am ET
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc.’s changes to its user settings, which made more information public by default, drew complaints from privacy groups concerned that people will unwillingly expose their photos and personal data.
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NewsFactor via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 12, 12:33 am ET
In a not-uncommon development for the social-networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos and friends lists available on the web, almost 300 personal photos of founder Mark Zuckerberg became publicly available, a development that had gossip sites like Gawker ...
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The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Dec 11, 11:20 pm ET
An uproar over whether users could hide who they are friends with caused Facebook to make changes to its recently revamped privacy policy.
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UPI - Fri Dec 11, 10:14 pm ET
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Internet social networking site Facebook says it has tweaked its newly issued privacy options for its 350 million users' friends lists.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 11:57 pm ET
From Aceh to Bali, Indonesians have donated a truckload of coins in support of a woman jailed for criticising health care provision in an email to friends.
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Wired News - Fri Dec 11, 5:51 pm ET
Facebook wants users to share more with the world and is pushing them that way with new privacy settings. Founder Mark Zuckerberg seems to be leading the charge with a totally open profile and widely shared candid photos.
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ChannelWeb - Fri Dec 11, 8:31 pm ET
Try as it may, Facebook has found that the road to revamped privacy has its bumps. Here is how the social networking site has bungled both users' privacy and trust.
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UPI - Fri Dec 11, 3:49 pm ET
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A Detroit man who traveled to Wisconsin for a romantic rendezvous with a woman he met on Facebook was robbed by the object of his affections, police said.
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Fox News - Fri Dec 11, 1:51 pm ET
In a call for solidarity with arrested student leader Majid Tavakoli, hundreds of Iranian men have posted pictures of themselves, wearing the veil, on Facebook.
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HispanicBusiness.com - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Facebook started prompting its more than 350 million users Wednesday to click through their personal privacy settings in an effort to educate them on what is publicly available on their profiles.
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CNET - Fri Dec 11, 11:24 am ET
Some members took issue with the fact that Facebook's new privacy settings exposed their list of connections, so Facebook has pulled back a bit on it.