Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Facebook Splits Privacy 170 Ways

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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The New York Times made a feature of Facebook’s privacy policy in an extensive review of how, when, and where you can make your private stuff private on the world’s largest social network. It turns out that Facebook’s privacy policy is now so complicated that it’s longer than the Constitution of the United States. Take a look at the infographic (which doesn’t quite explain how to hide those pictures of last weekend from your mum) here.

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Google verdict astonishes the online world

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The most interesting news from the digital world this week came undisputedly from Italy. Three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations over a YouTube video showing an autistic teenager being bullied.

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Among the convicted was Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, who has said he’s “outraged” by a decision he describes as setting a “chilling precedent”.

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