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Democrats' ID Card Plan: Get Your Fingerprints

'Biometrics' a big part of immigration reform proposal

(Newser) - Now it's the Democrats' turn to be accused of trying to violate civil liberties in the name of immigration reform. A crucial part of their plan calls for what amounts to a high-tech national ID card. It would have a "biometrics" component—namely fingerprints—and every worker would need...

Employee: Zuckerberg 'Doesn't Believe' in Privacy

Which helps explain the new settings

(Newser) - Two dispatches today from the Facebook privacy wars: In an off-the-record conservation with a New York Times reporter, a Facebook employee laughed when asked how Mark Zuckerberg feels about privacy: "He doesn't believe in it." The reporter tweeted about the exchange, and Bianca Bosker of the Huffington Post...

Senators to Facebook: Privacy Changes Suck

Oh, and fancy an FTC investigation?

(Newser) - It's not just tech geeks freaking out about the new Facebook changes; apparently they're causing hand-wringing in the very halls of Congress. Four Democratic senators—Chuck Schumer, Al Franken, Mark Begich and Michael Bennet—have sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg complaining that the changes give users less control...

The New Facebook: How to Protect Your Privacy

Two ways to keep your data to yourself

(Newser) - The wily folks at Facebook have made more changes . Now, to protect your privacy, you've got to change, too. Here, courtesy of Ryan Tate at Valleywag , are two ways to keep your profile under wraps without sacrificing too much functionality:
  • Cut Your 'Connections' Facebook will now convert data on your
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Facebook's 'Like' Button Invades Internet
 Facebook's 'Like' Button 
 Invades Internet 
opinion Roundup
Apr 22, 2010 1:51 PM CDT

Facebook's 'Like' Button Invades Internet

Changes greeted with concern, hyperbole

(Newser) - Tech analysts are positively wetting themselves over Facebook's decision to open its social graph to the world and create a web-wide “like” button. “Facebook is basically going to be the web,” Slate's Farhad Manjoo tweeted . The move essentially turns browsing the web from a solitary act into...

5 Ways Facebook Is Ruining Dating

It makes it way too easy to obsess, for one

(Newser) - It's high-time Facebook joins wandering eyes and drunken indiscretions on the list of relationship busters, writes Samuel Axon for Mashable . Here are five ways the boundary-eroding site is making dating more complicated:
  1. It makes obsessing too easy: He posted on your wall six times yesterday but only twice today...does
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Prof Suspended for 'Hitman' Facebook Quip

University says allusion to violence had to be taken seriously

(Newser) - A fed-up sociology professor who joked about wanting to hire a hitman for troublesome students has become yet another employee facing Facebook fallout. Gloria Gadsden's bosses at Pennsylvania's Stroudsburg University put her on indefinite leave after a student told them about her update reading "Does anyone know where I...

Facebook Privacy: Two Opposing Takes
 Facebook Privacy: 
 Two Opposing Takes 
blogger vs. blogger
Jan 12, 2010 11:08 AM CST

Facebook Privacy: Two Opposing Takes

Maybe 'privacy' is evolving; or this is just about making money

(Newser) - Facebook's decision to make users' private data public is still reverberating, and Michael Arrington wishes the "Luddites" opposed to the development would just be quiet and face up to a modern reality: "Privacy is already really, really dead." Big companies already know the intimate details of our...

Facebook Privacy Rollback Reveals Founder's Pics

Guarded Zuckerberg's partying ways revealed

(Newser) - Facebook’s much-maligned push to get users to make everything public has had the delicious and possibly unintended consequence of broadcasting all of Mark Zuckerberg’s embarrassing pictures to the world. Until now, Facebook’s founder had kept a closed profile, with only one photo of himself visible to the...

Critics Rip Facebook Privacy Revamp

 Critics Rip Facebook 
 Privacy Revamp 
once again...
Dec 10, 2009 8:36 AM CST

Critics Rip Facebook Privacy Revamp

Say new settings deceive, manipulate users

(Newser) - The revamped privacy features that Facebook unveiled yesterday may make it easier for you to limit who sees your beach vacation photos and thoughts on breakfast cereal—but the move actually pushes users to share their personal information with all 350 million fellow users, say privacy advocates angry over the...

Facebook Gives Users More Privacy Control

Don't want future employers to see those party pictures? Done!

(Newser) - New Facebook privacy settings will give users fine-grain control over who can see specific pieces or areas of content—so you can share your drunken party photos with a select group of friends, but keep them invisible to the general public. The site is also enacting bigger changes: regional networks...

Depressed Woman Parties on Facebook, Sick Leave Yanked

Canadian on sick leave posted party pics

(Newser) - After a year and a half on sick leave for depression, a Canadian woman lost her benefits—because of her Facebook page. Nathalie Blanchard says the insurance company that cut off her payments cited Facebook photos that show her partying at a Chippendales show, enjoying her birthday, and frolicking on...

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