Facebook’s Privacy Changes Draw More Scrutiny
New York Times - Thu Dec 10, 1:52 pm ETSince I wrote about Facebook ’s privacy changes on Wednesday, there has been more criticism of some of the changes.
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Facebook's New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know
PC World via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 11:25 am ETFacebook has begun rolling out its new privacy settings to all of its 350 million users. If you haven't seen it already, you will soon have to go through a wizard that will guide you through the process of confirming your privacy settings.
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Facebook unveils privacy changes
CNN - Thu Dec 10, 9:51 am ETA large pop-up box will greet Facebook users logging on to the social-networking site on Thursday, asking them to modify their privacy settings.
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Facebook Privacy Changes Are Both Good and Bad
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 5:25 pm ETAs social networks have become more popular, hundreds of millions of people have been putting their personal information on the web, often with little thought as to how this information can be used against them by criminals or swept up by marketers. This week, Facebook started rolling out a major new privacy initiative designed to give users more control over who sees their status updates ...
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Facebook Info Exposed On Web With 'Everyone' Privacy Setting
ChannelWeb - 56 minutes agoFacebook's revamped privacy settings defaults to the "everyone' setting, which has the potential to expose personal information on the Web, unless a user intentionally restricts user access.
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5 things to know about Facebook’s new settings
MSNBC - Thu Dec 10, 1:18 pm ETThe new privacy controls include some great changes, and some not-so-great changes, but here are five privacy issues you should know about as these settings roll out across Facebook.
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Facebook change gives users more privacy controls
USA Today - Thu Dec 10, 12:48 am ETFacebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages.
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Web Site Offers Assisted Suicide ... For Facebook
Fox News - Thu Dec 10, 11:37 am ETA dark-humored Web site offers despairing Facebook users a way out of the social network. The Seppukoo.com Web site Lets people hoping to leave the popular social-networking site commit "Facebook seppuku" in five easy steps.
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Facebook adopts new privacy settings to give users more control over content
Washington Post - Thu Dec 10, 12:00 am ETUh, about that status update on Facebook last night . . . you may want to make sure that information isn't available to more than just your friends.
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A year on, Facebook Connect shows fast growth
CNET - Thu Dec 10, 9:09 am ETThe social identity service has attracted major sites and even more platforms. But where Facebook is planning to take Connect is a big unknown.
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Facebook rolls out new privacy tool
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:40 pm ETFacebook began calling on users to get a better grip on their online privacy by dictating who sees what in profiles at the world's leading social networking service.
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'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:40 pm ETFacebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.
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Facebook gives users more privacy control
USA Today - Wed Dec 9, 9:15 pm ETFacebook has overhauled privacy settings to give users control of who sees what they're up to on their personal pages.
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Facebook Privacy Changes Draw Mixed Reviews
PC World via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 8:30 pm ETFacebook's revamped privacy settings will push more user data onto the Internet and, in some cases, make privacy protection harder for Facebook users, digital civil liberties experts said.
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PayPal Launches "Send Money" Facebook App
WebProNews - Thu Dec 10, 4:00 pm ETPayPal has introduced a new Facebook app for sending money. The app is designed to allow uses to use PayPal to send money to anyone starting from Facebook. Users only need the person's email address. PayPal Director of Product Marketing Heinz Waelchli explains how it works: Visit our send money application page and click on the "Get Started" button to install the application. Next just fill in ...
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Facebook privacy revamp draws fire
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 7:55 pm ETFacebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders on Wednesday by introducing a broad revision of its users' privacy settings.
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