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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

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Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Even if one million people closed their accounts, that would represent 1/4 of one percent of Facebook’s 400 million user base. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

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My old boss, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said , in 2003, “You have no privacy. Brown points out that from a legal standpoint, this statement is both puzzling and unnecessary, but it is nonetheless indicative of a general sentiment that there is no longer any reasonable expectation of online privacy.

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Third Grade Show and Tell: Online Privacy

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We ended up having a great conversation about online privacy, which was made all the more interesting by the students relating their experiences firsthand. Most of the kids knew about Facebook and YouTube. This opened a really interesting discussion about privacy, and the data collected by sites like Webkinz, Nick Jr.,

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The Online Privacy Twilight Zone

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Randy Cohen, “the Ethicist&# for the New York Times, responding to an educator’s inquiry about Facebook ethics, wrote : “…when these students gave her access to their Facebook pages, they waived their right to privacy. Tags: Facebook Social Media privacy. And that’s the crux of it.

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Facebook: Too Big to Fail

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You have to wonder why the Obama administration isn’t hinting at a bailout for Facebook in the event that the social network’s latest privacy kerfuffle threatens the very vitality of the global poking grid. Already the EU and other parties have stepped up and notified Facebook that its recent behavior is unacceptable.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. So will all of these players run from the fray when Facebook throws down its 400 million-user glove? I don’t think so. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25

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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

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With its incredible growth (200 million to 400 million users in the last 12 months), and announcement at its April 21 F8 developer conference of new capabilities, Facebook seems to have become, as Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News says, “the most important company on the Web.”. All of this raises interesting privacy concerns.