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Related News: Facebook’s privacy policy breaks the law in Europe

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BetaNews published an article titled Facebook’s privacy policy breaks the law in Europe.

There are many things that Facebook finds itself accused of on a regular basis. Unfairness to different groups, censorship of content, insensitivity, and endless problems surrounding its attitude to privacy and handling of user data. It seems that concerns about privacy were well-founded as a new report finds that the social network violated European law. Analysis carried out by the Belgian Privacy Commission and ICRI/CIR says that Facebook breaks the law in Europe in a number of ways. As well as placing too many expectations on users to be able to change settings for themselves.

Source: BetaNews

Related News: Man who owns a smart TV says he’s ‘afraid’ of using it after reading its privacy policy

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Yahoo! News published an article titled Man who owns a smart TV says he’s ‘afraid’ of using it after reading its privacy policy.

“The only problem is that I’m now afraid to use it. You would be too — if you read through the 46-page privacy policy,” Price wrote. “The amount of data this thing collects is staggering. It logs where, when, how, and for how long you use the TV. It sets tracking cookies and beacons designed to detect ‘when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message.’ It records ‘the apps you use, the websites you visit, and how you interact with content.’ It ignores ‘do-not-track’ requests as a considered matter of policy.”

Source: Yahoo! News

Related News: Google+ kills off “real names” policy

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Google+ kills off “real names” policy.

Google has decided to reverse its long-standing policy requiring users to use their real names to make profiles on the service as of Tuesday, according to a post shared on the official account. The move comes after Google+ head Vic Gundotra suddenly departed in April, marking the beginning of a shift for the service.

Source: Ars Technica

Related News: Unannounced use of license photos in criminal probes puts Ohio AG under fire

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Unannounced use of license photos in criminal probes puts Ohio AG under fire.

Two months after a controversial facial recognition technology program was launched in Ohio without public notice, state Attorney General Mike DeWine conceded Monday he should have let Ohioans know that their images from driver’s licenses were being used by law enforcement in criminal investigations.

“If I had to do it over again, would we have announced it when we did it? Yeah, we would have. And I’ll take responsibility for that,” DeWine said at a news conference.

Although DeWine said he should have gone public with the program sooner, he gave no indication that the state would change or stop using the program. He did announce that an advisory board will be created to review the system’s usage and to suggest policy changes to avoid misuse of the program.

Source: CNN

Related News: Instagram backtracks after user privacy revolt

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Instagram backtracks after user privacy revolt.

(CNN) — Faced with a loud and angry backlash from some of its most active users, photo-sharing app Instagram backtracked Tuesday on new language that appeared to give the company ownership of their images.

“The language we proposed … raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement,” Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom wrote in a blog post. “We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question.”

Source: CNN

Related News: Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. InformationWeek published an article titled Facebook Privacy: 5 Most Ignored Mistakes.

Facebook no longer represents that it offers privacy as a matter of policy, like some other companies do. It states outright that it will use your data. It has a Data Use Policy instead of a Privacy Policy.

But consider the dictionary definition of privacy: 1) The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people; 2) The state of being free from public attention. If that’s your gold standard, then you cannot use Facebook or any other online service for that matter, at least not without privacy-protecting technology. Once you venture online, once you share, you’re talking about something less than privacy. Online services may talk about how they respect privacy, but they should really be talking about data usage and sharing.

Source: InformationWeek

Related News: Social media creating issues for school systems

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Social media creating issues for school systems.

As social media use becomes more widespread, school systems are increasingly having to deal with issues created by student and teacher interaction via sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

In two recent local cases of alleged inappropriate relationships between students and teachers, interaction between students and teachers via social networks is a factor in the cases.

Source: Dothan Eagle