Paperlesswords: colorlines Gotta admit, I’m. ACLU Issues Concerns Over Facebook Places. Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December.
In a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Zuckerberg spent 60 seconds talking about Facebook's privacy policies. His statements were of major importance for the world's largest social network - and his arguments in favor of an about-face on privacy deserve close scrutiny. Zuckerberg offered roughly 8 sentences in response to Arrington's question about where privacy was going on Facebook and around the web. The question was referencing the changes Facebook underwent last month. IKEA Facebook Scam. How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook - Facebo. Facebook Open Graph. Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections. "Connections.
" It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes. Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created. Basically, Facebook has transformed substantial personal information — including your hometown, education, work history, interests, and activities — into "Connections. " This allows far more people than ever before to see this information, regardless of whether you want them to. Since then, our email inbox has been flooded with confused questions and reports about these changes. Facebook will not let you share any of this information without using Connections.
Facebook Exodus Planned for May 31: Will You Quit? When Facebook launched its Open Graph API and brought instant personalization to the web it probably didn't expect users to revolt — but they are.
In light of growing concerns around user privacy, Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee are attempting to mobilize a formal Facebook revolt with Quit Facebook Day. Democracy in Action. How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook - Facebo. Decentralize the web with Diaspora. We're fully funded!
Check out some of the other great projects on Kickstarter Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data. What is it? Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends.
For a little more detailed explanation, checkout this blog post. What is the project about? We believe that privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive. Why are we building it? This February, Eben Moglen, Columbia law professor and author of the latest GPL, gave a talk on Internet privacy. But why is centralization so much more convenient, even in an age where relatively powerful computers are ubiquitous? Why do we need money? Our Promise.