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Facebook is doing exactly what it should in light of recent allegations that its "like" functionality is possibly illegal when utilizing a minor's profile to spread an advertiser's message. The social media powerhouse is staying closed lip on the topic and lobbying child privacy laws in its own favor.

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"Using Facebook and Facial
Recognition to ID Random People
: A professor at Carnegie Mellon
conducted a study recently and found that about one third of people he took
snapshots of on campus could be identified using Facebook and a
facial-recognition technology recently bought by Google. Not only that, but 27%
of those folks had information on their Facebook profiles — like birth date or
birthplace — that enabled him to correctly predict the first five digits of
their Social Security numbers (you know, the part of your Social Security number
that’s supposed to be totally secret)."

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It's been one quarter since Facebook offered an explanation of its privacy efforts to the FTC and one month since Google confirmed it was the target of an FTC antitrust investigation. Now it seems both tech giants have decided to pay more attention — and more cash — to Washington.

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Zynga has updated its IPO filing and it's a doozy. In particular, the amendment goes into the details of its relationship with Facebook, which is much deeper than we originally thought. It almost makes Zynga into a Facebook subsidiary.

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Groupon subscribers must opt in if they are willing to allow Groupon to share their information with third parties.

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Parents crave the popularity stamp as much as their kids on Facebook, and are just as willing to let slip personal information in order to attain such social status.

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After it was reported that some of Facebook's most popular applications shared personal information, the site acknowledged that its privacy policy had been violated.

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Nearly eight in 10 U.S. and U.K. consumers have privacy concerns when it comes to making purchases via Facebook

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Open...and Shut Facebook isn't necessarily the new Compuserve, and Google might not be angling to be the Hotel California of tech, but all of the big web giants seem intent on locking their users into experiencing a single-vendor web.

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CNET, however, notes that the tool is probably against Facebook’s Terms of Service, which states: “you will not collect users’ content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.”

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Hulu’s Facebook Connect integration apparently isn’t going as planned. The ability to log in is offline as of this writing, with many people reporting issues with the sign-in option earlier today. According to some, those issues led some users to be signed in to other people’s Hulu accounts, exposing their user account data in the process.

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Roberts said he doesn’t have Facebook and he believes his nine colleagues also do not have an account. He also said they don’t have a tweet, killing two birds with one stone: he managed to say that he does not have a Twitter account nor does he know what it is.

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As Facebook has grown from a collegiate social network to a site that gets action from 7.3% of the world’s population, it has also evolved into a marketing tool. One report estimated that advertisers will spend $4 billion on Facebook advertising this year.
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<br />Facebook didn’t come out of the gate as a marketing-friendly product in 2004, and it has conducted a fair share of failed experiments in its efforts to become one. We’ve chronicled its evolution in the infographic below.

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Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook’s turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google+ project — which happens to look very much like Facebook.

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if I see that display ad that says, "Racheal [sic] Ray Loses 32 lbs." one more time I'll plotz. And click on it? Never!

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check out these suggested Facebook guidelines for college professors, which Online Colleges asked me to repost.

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You know the stereotype about social media nerds not actually having any real friends? Well that notion took a nose dive recently, thanks to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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Instead of wading through the swamps of app-connection and privacy settings pages buried within Facebook's menus, some third-party developers have designed tools to help people manage the information they're sharing, often unknowingly, with strangers and corporations.
Social Monitor, a service that launched Thursday, is a Web browser extension that looks at apps attached to the user's Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

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"While social media has demonstrated its utility in all kinds of unexpected areas, some of the most interesting applications have been discovered by criminals, who use social media to perpetrate elaborate frauds, identify vacation-going burglary subjects, and steal online identities. And it seems like resourceful outlaws are finding new, surprising applications for social media every day. Here's a good one: social media as a communications platform in armed standoffs."

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"European Union data-protection regulators are planning to probe Facebook over
its latest
facial
recognition feature that it began rolling out worldwide yesterday
. Facebook
rolled out Tag Suggestions across the US late last year, but for countries
outside of the US, the company switched it on by default without telling its
users first."

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