Facebook Privacy Change Strikes Again
Posted 11/12/2009 – 13:28 in: Opinion, Privacy, Social NetworksFacebook has introduced another round of privacy changes to their site. I was greeted with a pop-up telling me to review my settings. Privacy is a big concern on the Internet, and something I follow with great interest. But with more and more user content driven sites privacy becomes an increasingly complex issue.
I can understand [...]
Facebook and User Privacy
Posted 26/03/2009 – 11:55 in: Internet, Security, Social NetworksI’ve recently been asked about privacy within Facebook applications. Basically there were concerns about messaging when adding an application to your profile. There is a screen that pops up to explain what the application has access to. This is described as photos, friends information, basically everything the application needs to run. There was concern about [...]
No Comments | Tags: applications, data protection, facebook, Security, user dataFacebook’s New Look
Posted 18/03/2009 – 13:00 in: Internet, Opinion, Social NetworksSo once again Facebook has decided to change the layout of the homepage. It really does resemble Twitter now. It got me thinking as to why they keep changing their homepage. Basically tho only two reasons I can come up with, to keep things fresh and generate media buzz.
Let’s take the latter to start with, [...]