Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
18
Jan
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: ammended, facebook, law, netflix, privacy, protection, related news, sharing, social networking, video, vppa. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook.
Netflix is now free to create a U.S. Facebook app that shares users’ viewing history if they opt in, after the company successfully lobbied Congress to amend a 1988 law.
A Netflix spokesman said the company “will launch social features in the U.S.” sometime in 2013. The law in question, called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), previously prohibited “a video tape service provider” from revealing customer information without the customer’s written consent.
Source: CNN Money
7
Jan
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: astoria, drunk-driving, dumbest, facebook, hit-and-run, oregon, post, related news, shine, yahoo!. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Shine from Yahoo! published an article titled Dumbest Facebook Post Ever?.
An Oregon teenager has landed himself in the county jail for what must be one of the dumbest Facebook gaffes ever: posting about his drunk-driving hit-and-run escapade.
“Drivin drunk … classsic 
but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. 
” was the early-morning post that quickly led to the at-home arrest of Jacob Cox-Brown in the Oregon-coast city of Astoria, reports the Daily Astorian.
Source: Shine from Yahoo!
7
Jan
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: expirement, facebook, facebook fast, fox news, month, related news, without. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Experiment: a month without Facebook.
On Facebook, I’m connected to a lot of people who are not my friends. Over the years, as my Facebook friend list grows, it’s made me increasingly uncomfortable that I seem to know so much about people that I don’t actually know.
So as the new year approached, I decided to review my Facebook life. I took a four-week break — a “Facebook Fast” — from the world’s biggest online social network. The break this fall spanned the presidential campaign and election, Superstorm Sandy, fighting in the Middle East and my college’s homecoming weekend — all events I cared about. These were all reasons for me to crave Facebook as a way to check the zeitgeist.
Source: Fox News
30
Nov
Posted by ACFI in Alabama, Related News. Tagged: adoption, alabama, andalusia, andalusia star news, facebook, personal items, pet supplies, related news, rescue, scheme, sick animals. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Facebook scheme lands 2 in jail.
It is believed that Adams soon took advantage of peoples’ generosity by using cash donations – solicited under the guise of treating sick animals – to pay for personal items such as electric bills and groceries for the family.
Dean said people gave more than $25,000, and the number could climb as the investigation continues.
Dean said at one point, Adams claimed to have been a victim of a burglary where all the animal supplies were stolen from a local storage facility.
“That claim was completely false,” he said.
Source: Andalusia Star News
20
Nov
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: default, enabling, facebook, firesheep, https, north american, related news, users. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Threatpost published an article titled Facebook Enabling HTTPS by Default for North American Users.
Facebook this week will begin turning on secure browsing be default for its millions of users in North America. The change will make HTTPS the default connection option for all Facebook sessions for those users, a shift that gives them a good baseline level of security and will help prevent some common attacks.
Facebook users have had the option of turning on HTTPS since early 2011 when the company reacted to attention surrounding the Firesheep attacks. However, the technology was not enabled by default and users have had to in and manually make the change in order to get the better protection of HTTPS.
Now, users will have to manually turn HTTPS off if they don’t want it, a distinction that is a major change, especially for Facebook’s massive user base, which has become a major target for attackers.
Source: threatpost
15
Oct
Posted by ACFI in Alabama, Related News. Tagged: alabama, charge, dothan eagle, facebook, related news, student, terroristic threat, wicksburg. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Wicksburg student faces terroristic threats charge.
Houston County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Tony Gonzalez said Friday that the 13-year-old student has been charged with making terroristic threats based on an investigation earlier this week.
Gonzalez said the arrest was related to statements made on Facebook. He said the student did not have a specific plan, nor did he have weapons.
Source: Dothan Eagle
24
Sep
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: ad tracking, datalogix, facebook, fear, related news. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook raises fears with ad tracking.
The emails and other identifying information are made anonymous and collected into groups of people who saw an ad and people who did not. Datalogix compiles a report for Facebook and its advertisers to measure which creative approaches and demographic targeting persuade people to buy specific products offline.
Facebook said it is paying Datalogix for the data-matching. So far, the two companies have measured 45 campaigns and in 70 per cent of cases, for every dollar a marketer spent on Facebook it earned an additional $3 in incremental sales, Mr Smallwood said.
Source: CNN
16
Jul
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: beating death, facebook, nbc chicago, posted, video. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NBC Chicago published an article titled 2 More Teens Charged in Videotaped Beating Death.
Two more teens have been charged in the beating death of a 62-year-old disabled man that Chicago police said was recorded on a cell phone and posted to Facebook.
Police said a 16-year-old gang member punched Delfino Mora, father to 12 children and a grandfather to 23, last Tuesday in an alley in the 6300 block of North Artesian. Mora’s devastated family told NBC Chicago that Mora was on his regular route of collecting cans that he sells for cash when the teens confronted him.
Source: NBC Chicago
13
Jul
Posted by ACFI in Related News. Tagged: facebook, father, imprisoned, iran, related news, son. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Son: Iranian dad arrested for my Facebook posts.
But a 25-year-old Iranian says his Facebook activity has led to his father’s detention in a notorious prison in Tehran. And now he’s struggling to find a way to free him.
“I want my family to forgive me,” Yashar Khameneh said. “But I believe what I believe in.”
A year ago, while studying at a college in Holland, Khameneh joined a Facebook page that made fun of a top Shiite Muslim imam, Ali al-Naqi al-Hadi. Naqi is one of 12 imams considered successors to the Prophet Mohammed. Called “Infallibles,” the imams are protected by law in Iran from ridicule or even frivolous comments. One can be arrested for insulting them.
Source: CNN
13
Jul
Posted by ACFI in Alabama, Related News. Tagged: facebook, fight, lawsuit, posting, related news, saban, wsfa. Leave a Comment
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Lawsuit blames Saban’s daughter for fight.
The lawsuit says Grimes and Kristen Saban were playing a drinking game with friends in August 2010. It says they got into a fight after Kristen Saban posted something on Facebook saying no one liked Grimes.
Source: WSFA
