Related News: The App That Lets You Spy on Yourself and Sell Your Own Data

Posted on July 10, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Wired published an article titled The App That Lets You Spy on Yourself and Sell Your Own Data.

For Citizenme, the price you pay is much higher, and it’s trying to shift internet economics back in your direction. The long-term plan is to provide a way for you to sell your own online data directly to advertisers and others of your choosing. But it isn’t there just yet. In the meantime, it’s focused on helping you collect and analyze your social media data through a mobile app that connects to multiple social networks—giving you more insight into how things work today. “The very first step is raising awareness, helping people understand what’s being done with their data,” says Citizenme founder StJohn Deakins.

Deakins, who has experience building mobile technologies for emerging markets, got the idea for Citizenme a few years ago, after selling mobile video company Triple Media to the private equity firm NewNet in 2010. “The biggest issue I could see for the internet is our data and what happens to our data,” he says. He acknowledges that personal data is essential to the health of the net because it drives the advertising that funds things. But today’s invasive data collection policies have made people distrustful. Citizenme hopes to change that by making users more aware of this process and, ultimately, letting them decide how their data is used.

Source: Wired

Related News: DARPA funded studies to see how you use social networks

Posted on July 10, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Engadget published an article titled DARPA funded studies to see how you use social networks.

DARPA’s been spending its money on many, many things other than robots and exoskeletons — including several experiments that seek to determine how we use social media. Apparently, Pentagon’s most adventurous division has quite a number of studies under its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program since it was announced in 2011. And thanks to The Guardian (which spotted the details SMISC quietly posted on its website), we now know the projects the agency’s been working on… and they involve not only Facebook, but also Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and even Digg. According to the researchers involved, they used only data available to the public, and it doesn’t look like they violated any law. But just like Facebook’s mood experiment, some of these studies might make people a tad uncomfortable.

Source: Engadget

Related News: Facebook, Google users threatened by new security flaw

Posted on May 19, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Facebook, Google users threatened by new security flaw.

A serious flaw in two widely used security standards could give anyone access to your account information at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and many other online services. The flaw, dubbed “Covert Redirect” by its discoverer, exists in two open-source session-authorization protocols, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID.

Both standards are employed across the Internet to let users log into websites using their credentials from other sites, such as by logging into a Web forum using a Facebook or Twitter username and password instead of creating a new account just for that forum.

Source: Fox News

Related News: Young users see Facebook as ‘dead and buried’

Posted on January 3, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Telegraph published an article titled Young users see Facebook as ‘dead and buried’.

A study of how older teenagers use social media has found that Facebook is “not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried” and is being replaced by simpler social networks such as Twitter and Snapchat.

Young people now see the site as “uncool” and keep their profiles live purely to stay in touch with older relatives, among whom it remains popular.

Source: The Telegraph

Related News: Paedophile who posed as Justin Bieber jailed in one of the worst ever internet abuse cases

Posted on October 11, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Telegraph published an article titled Paedophile who posed as Justin Bieber jailed in one of the worst ever internet abuse cases.

The 35-year-old, from Middlesbrough, had used sites such as Facebook, Skype and MSN to abuse girls as young as nine from across Europe, Asia, Canada and America, convincing the girls to expose themselves and perform sex acts on a webcam.

Teesside Crown Court heard that even after being arrested in December 2012, he continued to target children and this resulted in a girl from Tasmania eventually contacting police who traced him back to his home.

Source: The Telegraph

Related News: Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers

Posted on February 27, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers.

The fairy tale ended fast. Almost immediately after she arrived in Seattle, he dropped her off on a street where prostitutes troll for customers and told her she was going to “catch dates.”

Many would have run, but Nina says her deteriorating family life left her with a sense of desperation. She was smitten, and willing to do anything for the man she thought loved her. So she stayed.

Keeping the attention of her “boyfriend” required selling herself for sex, Nina learned. He was a pimp — and she was one of a growing number of women recruited on social networks for sex trafficking.

Source: CNN Money