Link: 8 Steps to Facebook Photo Privacy, According to Facebook Engineer “According to an engineer on Facebook Photos, photo privacy on the social network is complex. ‘Really complex,’ he says. ‘Probably 10 people in the world intimately understand the privacy calculations involved when you attempt to view a photo on Facebook. That said, this information…
Link: The internet and the ‘end of privacy’ CNN kicks off a four-day series about online privacy today. Here’s the overview story. by John D. Sutter on CNN Tech
Link: Facebook Declares “Zero Tolerance” for Data Brokers “On Facebook’s Developers blog, the world’s largest social networking company declared ‘zero tolerance’ for data brokers, after a recent Wall St. Journal investigation revealed that some Facebook application developers have been selling Facebook users’ information to data brokering firms. Facebook has responded to this news by banning…
Link: Facebook Turns the Privacy Fear Meter Up to 11 Matt provides a good explanation and assessment of recent privacy concerns over the newly launched “Facebook Places” service, the good parts and the one part that has many people very unhappy — and looking to immediately disable it. by Mathew Ingram on @GigaOM, h/t to…
