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Important Facebook News: Privacy Updates

Almost Savvy

As you probably know, Facebook has been facing a barrage of complaints regarding their “public is the new norm&# approach to privacy which resulted in much of your/our content being made public by default. The feedback we heard from users was that in our efforts to innovate, some of our privacy settings h ad become confusing.

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy. Plus, the privacy is only one way (incoming only). I was responding to Kelly who says that the privacy is still one way. Your friends can see them.

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Facebook Tip: How To Choose Who Can See Your Friends

Almost Savvy

After the enormous missteps Facebook has taken lately with respect to privacy and control over our own content and a tidal wave of bad press, they’ve modified the settings and the ability to manage who can see our Friends has returned. Not surprisingly, people were none too happy with this change.

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How Facebook Hurt My Feelings | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

In the end, it turned out that somehow Facebook had totally screwed up her privacy settings and a bunch of her friends now had limited access. Still, it shocked me to see how a little check-box deep in the Facebook privacy settings led to my own feelings of self-doubt and rejection. Two things occurred to me: 1.

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New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter

Almost Savvy

I don’t know these guys personally, so to say they aren’t spies would be pure conjecture, however, their privacy pledge states … Where does Rapportive get its data from? I am very concerned about privacy and don’t want to give access to my Gmail account to any application. Are they spies? Good for you.

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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 Conversation

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Lijit Search. Privacy Victory for Employee Email Monitoring. Jennifer Okimoto on Millennial Backlash. Zbigniew Lukasiak on Wiki + Spreadsheet = SocialCalc. Dmitri on Twitter Tips the Tuna. Luke Closs on Enterprise 2.008. flick r.com. solutions, Plazes. Download Flash plugin. Download Flash plugin. Recent Posts. Millennial Backlash.

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Help Me Help You | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

With an array of buttons to click here and there to manage privacy, sync updates with other sites, and manage spam – how is a person supposed to keep up? A few have worked well immediately upon launch, most seem full of bugs and perform inconsistently. It’s no wonder that so many of you are frustrated and confused.

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