In technology news that has nothing to do with Apple, Canada investigates Facebook and its new privacy policy, an e-book pirate shares his story and Twitter users are advised to stop chattering about themselves.

Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, wants to clear the air about Facebook's new privacy policy and the company's recent suggestion that his agency checked it out before it was launched. "We aren't generally in t...

The early poster child for the controversial new changes to Facebook's privacy policy? Facebook's founder and CEO himself. Facebook released a set of Dec. 9 changes to Facebook's privacy policy that  includes a new set of Facebook u...

Several days after rolling out an updated privacy policy, Facebook on Thursday made a slight tweak to a new FriendF List setting. Initially, users had the option to check a box so that their friends would not be able to see every...

Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos since we rifled through them last ni...

Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos since we rifled through them last ni...

Facebook rolled out some privacy changes today and people are not happy. Other users are just plain pissed about Facebook's privacy changes. EFF gives the bottom line: We at EFF are worried that today's changes will lead to Facebook...

We reported yesterday that Facebook is aiming to get people to be more public on the site and that anyone who hasn't changed their privacy settings will now see it "recommended" that their status updates, photos etc. be exposed to t...

More Facebook news, as if you hadn’t gotten enough this week. Facebook has released numbers on its Facebook Connect adoption, and has also begun to roll out its new privacy policy. While the two aspects of Facebook’s news are conc...

Social Software, web 2.0 Facebook made a promise earlier this year to listen to user input about any changes to its terms of service and privacy policy, and so far they've followed through. Facebook opened up a comment ...

Earlier this week, Facebook users voted to adopt new privacy policies the social networking site proposed in late October. Facebook wanted to present its privacy guidelines in a "clearer and more comprehensive" manner. The site sp...

After a predefined period designed to increase transparency and maximize user feedback, Facebook has announced that, with fewer than 7,000 user comments, it will proceed to implement its proposed amended privacy policy. With adequa...

At the end of Octoboer, Facebook announced that it was revamping its privacy policy. The change, sparked by the intervention of the Canadian government, simplified the new policy, stripped the legal jargon, and put the document up ...

If a new privacy proposal set forth by the European Union (EU) becomes law, it could potentially reach all the way across the Atlantic to have a chilling effect on US online marketing practices. In a......

Facebook is revamping its privacy policy, exchanging some of the legal jargon for plain, simple examples of how users can delete their profiles, how long “backup copies” of personal data get stored, and how some of their new data pa...

Facebook is revamping its privacy policy, exchanging some of the legal jargon for plain, simple examples of how users can delete their profiles, how long “backup copies” of personal data get stored, and how some of their new data pa...

Facebook's VP of Communications and Public Policy Elliot Schrage has posted an update to the site's blog outlining a major rewrite Facebook is proposing for its Privacy Policy. Schrage writes that the new version eliminates the leg...

With the latest change in our terms of use (TOU) and privacy policy, we now display your full name if you write a review or post to any of our discussion forums. We posted the new TOU and privacy policy for a month before requiring ...

The Onion reports that Google's new privacy policy requires users who wish to opt out to relocate to a remote ghetto and abandon all contact with the outside world. (Photo: kalle svensson) ...

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