Remember that huge load of Facebook data that ended up on BitTorrent? We half expected some unscrupulous torrenter to download it and try to flog it to an equally unscrupulous business. Well, it seems they didn’t have to – businesses are doing it for themselves.
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Valve software has updated Steam – its game purchasing and installation software. Now, as well as sending you new games, Steam wants to know what other stuff you have on your hard drive.
Facebook privacy changes will be unveiled tonight during an announcement at the social network’s Palo Alto HQ. The Facebook event will feature a rare public appearance from Mark Zuckerberg who we’re promised will “discuss details regarding enhanced, simpler privacy controls.” What do you want Facebook to change?
Facebook privacy settings will be simplified within weeks according to one of the social network’s senior executives. Facebook has taken a battering recently over its baffling number of privacy settings and it seems it’s getting ready to backtrack…
Facebook privacy problems may bother you but it seems for Facebook they’re just a business issue. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this year that “privacy is no longer the social norm” and the social network has been working pretty hard to chip away at the idea of personal information ever since. But why should we let Facebook decide that it’s time for privacy to die?
Google privacy issues have been highlighted in an open letter to Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. The letter signed by privacy officials from 10 nations including UK Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, flags up Google Streetview privacy issues and looks back at all those Google Buzz teething problems.
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