Women and young adults are outpacing other demographics in unfriending on Facebook, as social networkers get more savvy in managing their reputation online, according to new research.
As Facebook’s rules about whether to censor specific postings made by users have now been published for the first time in the media, Joanna Morley, Social Media & Online PR Manager at SiteVisibility, argues that the guidelines contradict the social networks own approach to user’s privacy.
Future versions of Google’s Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid certificate.
Google is inviting users to take part in a new scheme that will allow the web giant to track their behaviour online, rewarding them with Amazon gift cards for their troubles.
Google has changed its privacy policy, streamlining it across its multiple services including search, email, video and social networking sites, following privacy concerns from regulators over its social networking sites.
UK firms face potentially crippling fines if they breach new EU data privacy laws proposed this week (‘Draft Data Protection Bill’). Star, a UK provider of cloud computing services, suggests this knee jerk reaction by Brussels to pending US Patriot Act legislation may stifle innovation at the very time that UK businesses need to focus … [Read more…]
O2 is facing a privacy backlash from users after reports emerged that the company was sharing subscribers’ mobile numbers to websites they visit over a 3G connection.
The European Commission has launched a controversial bid to force web giants such as Google or Facebook to give users more control over their personal data or face fines.
The head of a consumer online privacy watchdog says US regulators should look into Google’s new personalised search to see whether there are antitrust or privacy issues.
An audit of Facebook’s privacy policies by the Irish data protection commissioner has concluded the social network must go further in warning users how it and third-party apps handle personal information, following concerns that it was illegally creating “shadow profiles” of non-members.