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Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

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I've Used Bluesky for 6 Months – Here's What You Should Know

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Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). Bluesky is a decentralized social network created by Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO who started it while still in the role.

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Facial Recognition, Privacy and Social Media

Laurel Papworth

What happens when you point your iPhone, mobile phone or any new camera at a group of people and get their Facebook and Twitter IDs, their last status updates and other goodies – all from the fact the camera does facial recognition? This is what I was talking about in this post on privacy and facebook facial tagging and recognition -.

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How to Hide Text Message On iPhone

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Can you hide text messages on your iPhone and most importantly, why would you want to hide messages on your iPhone? Let’s have a look at some real-life scenarios where hiding text messages on iPhone may become more of a necessity than choice – There is very covert information that is inclusive to your department.

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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. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25 I couldn’t find current stats on Yelp’s iPhone app user base, hence the discombobulated comparison.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name. And Face

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Well, what right do we have in posting our children's lives to an online social network, anyway? Some might argue that Facebook could do more to protect these rights, while some would argue that the privacy settings are fairly straightforward and award a high degree of user control. online social network.

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16 Billion Things To Think About

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I''ve been using WhatsApp since it first came out, because I switched from BlackBerry to iPhone and wanted a BBM -like function that wasn''t relegated to one type of device/platform. Public and private social experiences. Facebook is the public online social network. digital social experience. social lives.