Jeff Roberts
Dec 4, 2011 12:16 PM
Last week brought alarming accounts about how a firm called Carrier IQ may have used key logging technology to record millions of phone messages. These reports coincided with a federal regulator’s findings about how Facebook has been misusing its customer data. These sort of stories are taking on a depressing…
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Jeff Roberts
Nov 29, 2011 4:28 PM
The Federal Trade Commission today released a much-anticipated settlement with Facebook over a series of privacy breaches. The deal has some bite, requiring the social networking giant to comply with a tough series of orders for the next two decades. Meanwhile, the FTC also gave its fans a chance to…
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Jeff Roberts
Nov 11, 2011 5:05 PM
Irony alert: The Federal Trade Commission may have just saddled Facebook with 20 years of privacy audits, but that’s not stopping it from tapping the social network to build up a fanbase.
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Jeff Roberts
Sep 29, 2011 3:25 PM
Another day, another call for a Facebook privacy investigation. Members of Congress and civil liberties groups are making separate requests for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook in light of fresh controversies over how the social networking site tracks users’ internet browsing.
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