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At least one U.S. Senator wants the FTC to investigate. Notable leaders in the tech sector have begun talking about dropping out. Millions belong to groups complaining about it. Now, European privacy advocates are on Facebook's case, arguing the company's latest round of privacy adjustments are not ...
Twitter has stomped out a bug that for a brief period allowed users to force other users to follow them on the microblogging site. In eliminating the glitch, however, Twitter emptied out some users' list of followers entirely. "Like other social networks, Twitter was originally designed to serve a p...
After a tumultuous couple of weeks for Facebook that have included the introduction of Open Graph, threats of lawmaker scrutiny, complaints from consumer groups and embarrassing bugs in its software, members of the social networking site may be wondering whether it's time to ask the musical questio...
McDonald's has signed on as an early user of Facebook's new location feature, which reportedly could launch as early as this month. The new feature will give users the ability to include their location within a status update, but it will also be offered as a tool for marketers, AdAge reported Thursd...
Christine Maddela, the weekend anchor at WKRN-TV in Nashville, joined Twitter on July 1, 2009. It took her all of three days to discover the microblogging service's potential impact on journalism. "Three days later, on July 4, Steve McNair was murdered, and I broke the news of McNair's death on Twit...
Two privacy flaws in Facebook were quickly patched Wednesday, but for security experts the breaches are just signs of what may be chronic problems with the social network's ability to preserve the sensitive data of its more than 400 million members. The flaws were linked to a feature that's part of ...
Where's the fault in making "share" the default setting on Facebook? After all, people who have read 10 years' worth of scary headlines about email viruses, Internet scams featuring Nigerian princes and phishing websites seem eager to give up their likes, dislikes, kids' names, embarrassing photos a...
When you work in the cybersecurity business, friends can make you their default -- read "unpaid" -- computer safety expert. Wen Tseng, research director for the Cloud Computing Alliance, really doesn't mind, however; it gives him a chance to confirm that scammers and hackers are increasingly relying...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it "the most transformative thing we've ever done on the Web," and Ginger McCall, chief counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, didn't disagree. "I was stunned and shocked and somewhat awed by their brilliance," McCall told TechNewsWorld. "I watched...
Saying they've grown increasingly impatient with online companies that pay too little heed to national privacy laws and expectations, data protection commissioners from 10 countries on Tuesday launched what they promised would be an ongoing effort to match worldwide enforcement with the growing glob...
At the risk of giving Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain one more reason to do 360s in his grave, I'm compelled to modify one of his best-known quotes: It seems reports of journalism's demise at the hands of technology have been greatly exaggerated. The evidence piled up this week. Awards were announced, new...
Next time you tweet, you may want to consider your role in history. The Library of Congress plans to archive all public posts from Twitter, dating back to the 2006 debut of the popular social networking service. Details on tweet availability will be worked out within the next several months, accordi...
The constant drumbeat of bad economic news didn't stop Jennifer Cloud from pursuing a job in her chosen field of interactive marketing. Armed with a degree in communications and a desire to learn new technologies, she started using Twitter. "I was wondering if the resumes I was blindly submitting on...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled two phones for the socialista set -- people whose lives revolve around social networking and being in constant communication with friends. These are the Kin One and Kin Two. The phones run a specialized version of the Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. "Our strate...
Dom Sagolla doesn't have to dig deep into his own Twitter profile to look back on his very first tweet. It just happened to be one of Twitter's very first tweets -- tweet #38, to be exact, appearing March 21, 2006. "Oh this is going to be addictive," it read. "It was so easy and simple that I felt t...
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