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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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Gov 2.0: Taking a Look Back at 2009 | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Taking a Look Back at 2009 Wed, Nov 25, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 Click for the 2009 Timeline of Gov 2.0 2009 was the year that it learned to walk. Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. trends that have really emerged in 2009. Government 2.0 Work for You?

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

English: CBC Radio personality Nora Young at the Northern Voice 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C., Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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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. I figure if you want private communication, go to IM. Plus, the privacy is only one way (incoming only). I was responding to Kelly who says that the privacy is still one way.

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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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An Educational Guide On Bitcoin Mining

BeingOptimist

Bitcoin has crossed the Pathways with the developers, software engineers and regular citizens by providing them with interest since 2009. Because the gap between 2008 to 2009 lead to various speculations. But it is crucial to start reading about the latest news and the ways to expand the community of Bitcoin.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. Facebook responded by apologizing and giving its users more privacy controls to manage the concerns of students who thought this approach was too invasive.

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