Tag: PERSONAL DATA

Facebook has suspended several popular apps, including Familybuilder's Family Tree app and nearly all apps by LOLapps Media (of Gift Creator and Quiz Creator fame). The suspended apps were found to be leaking Facebook ID numbers to a third-party advertising company called Rapleaf, which could use the Facebook IDs to put names and faces to the anonymous consumer data that it collects. Giving any ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two big changes today, the newly revamped Groups being one of them. The second is that users will now have the ability to download all of their Facebook data, anytime they wish, as a big ZIP file. Expect the new feature to hit your account settings in the next few days. The option to download your data will show up in your Account Settings, just below the ...

Here's the formula for getting a lot of publicity for pretty much any report you want to produce: Target Google. So it should be no surprise that Privacy International is getting a lot of press for a report released over the weekend. The privacy advocacy group conducted a 6 month study of 23 of internet companies including Google, Microsoft, MySpace and eBay. And they determined that Google ...