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The 2012 Social Networking Privacy Policy

Webbiquity SMM

If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. In a sub-page Foursquare calls “Privacy 101,” the plan and purpose of users’ privacy is laid out simply.

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Social Networking Terms of Use in 2013

Firebelly

That fact that Instagram wanted to profit from customer data isn’t what’s stunning. An entire economy of buying and reselling user data revolves around social networking, as it’s one of the few ways to profit from a service that’s essentially free. Foursquare 101. So what does this mean for you in 2013?

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Redesign, Facebook Adds Custom Gender Options

The Realtime Report

Facebook boots two ad analytics companies for data violations – HasOffers and Kontagent both tracked the performance of ads on the company’s mobile platform; Facebook is telling advertisers not to work with these companies because they violated Facebook’s data policies(re/code).

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Facebook Places Explained

Mindjumpers

Part of the idea behind Facebook Places is the same as with other geolocation services like Gowalla and Foursquare: to create spontaneous meetings. I am not sure whether or not Facebook Places will eventually overrule other services like Foursquare and Gowalla or how powerful geolocation will be.

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The Takeaway from Social Media in 2010

Direct Marketing Observations

How many times has it changed it’s privacy policy? I am still not comfortable about the purported data leaks, or satisfied that Facebook is doing all it can to value my privacy, but then again it’s a 1000 times better than it initially was. or Foursquare ?Are So let me ask you something. Or being part of Groupon ?

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Defining a Strategy To Use Content In B2B Marketing

Mindjumpers

Although it has no use to see this as a novelty and certainly not as yet another silo when we want to have a cross-channel, data-driven and customer-centric holistic marketing strategy, it is worth taking a look at what experts in the area of B2B content marketing advice. What is often missing in B2B content marketing is a strategy.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook revisited its policies in 2009 and set its privacy controls to “everyone.&# We now check in voluntarily to places like Foursquare and Gowalla, where we broadcast what we’re doing and where we’re eating. Without any matching report, any employee accessing this data should be terminated.

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