Facebook's Privacy Policy\n\n"We want to earn your trust by being transparent about how Facebook works. You should read this policy in its entirety, but should pay particular attention to these four highlights:"\nStates what is meant to be private and things that are publicly available.
social and ethical issues- privacy
the user will be able to know why facebook wants certain information and not give it to them if they think its not justified and maintain their privacy.
privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account
There are around 950,000 developers in 180 countries who provide applications
for the site.
social network
Facebook's Michael Richter said if a user chose to deactivate their account,
the site would still store their information "even if it is for 10 years".
"Application developers have had virtually unrestricted access to Facebook users' personal information,"
The plain fact is that the open source ethos of trusting people and accepting diverse opinions in the code stream is directly at odds with China’s Internet policy
IMPACT --> Health / SOCIAL --> Privacy & Anonymity
Like all reputable social networking sites, Facebook complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by not allowing children under 13 to have accounts (COPPA does make provisions for accounts for children under 13 but imposes certain conditions including parental consent). The only way for this young man to obtain a Facebook account would be to lie about his date of birth.
Once on Facebook, anything a person posts can, by default, be seen only by his friends or people in his network. If Xavier's profile was available to additional people, it was because he changed his default privacy settings.
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
Rather than being something completely new, campaigning using new media is simply doing what we've always done in a new setting - and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from Friday to Tuesday, after the filing system went down. As time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.
IMPACT: Arts, Education:
By digitising out of print literature, Google will open up the accessabilty of the literature to everybody, which will have a boost on education.
IT SYSTEMS: Int System
This is an intellectual system that will hold online information accessible to anyone.
This article discusses the simulated cyber "shockwave" exercise that was carried out in Washington DC as to practice in preparation for predicted cyber-attacks against the US. It looks at the impacts on power systems, politics and the use of military intervention.
There are many families whose children, unbeknown to them, might be illegally downloading but now their own access could be put in jeopardy by Lord Mandelson's proposals."
"The automatic launch sequence automatically turned off due to a problem that was detected in the countdown," said Lee Sang-mok, the deputy minister of science and technology policy.