The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook About Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Types of Personal Data Facebook's classification system for personal data has changed significantly over the years. Audiences Implementation I built this sketch using Processing.js. About me
Personalisation In-Store That's one of the interesting numbers from this infographic from IBM. So of course what happens in store of real importance to retailers - especially when you consider what consumers want in store -58% of consumers want to get product information in store - 42% are more likely to return to the store if they have in-store mobile promotions In previous posts( Combating Showrooming ) I've highlighted the growing trend for 'showrooming', which is defined on Wikipedia as 'Showrooming is the act of examining merchandise in a brick and mortar retail store without purchasing it there, then shopping online to find a lower price for the same item' To help retailers, IBM Research are creating a new augmented reality mobile shopping application to give in-store shoppers instant product details and promotions through their mobile devices. Full details from IBM can be found here - Augmented reality makes shopping more personal Of course this is only the start.
Privacy and safety - Social Media Statistics Two-thirds of parents claim to set rules on their child’s use of social networking sites, although only 53% of children said that their parents set such rules. While communication with known contacts was the most popular social networking activity, 17 % of adults used their profile to communicate with people they do not know. This increases among younger adults. Sixty-nine per cent of adults who have a social networking page or profile used social networking sites to talk to friends or family who they saw regularly anyway, compared to 17% of adults who used sites to talk to those they didn’t already know. Those who talked to people they didn’t know were significantly more likely to be aged 16-24 (22% of those with a social networking page or profile) than 25-34 (7% of those with a profile). Several areas of potentially risky behaviour are suggested by the qualitative and/or quantitative research.
Patent Applications by Country - Top Search Trends Posted by Neil on Saturday, December 22, 2012 0 China’s patent office received more applications than any other country’s in 2011, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a UN body which follows 125 patent offices. China received 526,412 applications, exceeding those to America and Japan. Facebook sous surveillance pendant 20 ans James Bond declines to use Sony's latest z4 experia for his upcoming 007 movie To market the Xperia Z4 smartphone ..Sony offered James Bond star Daniel Craig a $5 million fee to promote the latest James Bond movie Spectre . However the offer was rejected by both daniel Craig and Director Sam Mendes , as they dint want brand james bond " brand personae to be " affected by any marketing tieups unless Sony's Z4 was indeed the best across its category. Earlier James Bonds movie have had product placement tie ups with KFC,BP, Avis among several others However in most of bonds movie he uses a satellite phone and not a smartphone . This is based on some hacked email transcripts which was revealed during last december haccording to internal emails ,producer Barbara Broccoli, the daughter of James Bond movie series creator Albert Broccoli, wanted Sony to bolster its $18 million commitment to marketing Spectre with payments to the cast and crew for using its phones.
FTC chairman shares lawmakers' privacy concerns about Facebook Last month, Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) called for the FTC to investigate Facebook's practice of tracking users even after they log out of its site. Facebook collects data when users visit websites that feature its "Like" button, even when the users have logged out of their Facebook accounts. The social-networking site says the data collection is inadvertent. "Facebook provides people with control over their information and our focus is on innovating new ways for people to share what they want with whom they want," a Facebook spokesman said in an email. Leibowitz also hinted that the FTC is taking a hard look at "supercookies," tracking files that are more difficult to delete than traditional "cookies." The chairman described supercookies as a "whack-a-mole problem" because they can keep popping up to track users online ever after repeated attempts to delete them.
has online streaming killed he DVD star ? Has the Streaming service killed the DVD Star ? Well there's a compelling case that streaming video is killing its predecessors. This year, it is estimated, there will be 3.4 billion movie views online, compared with 2.4 billion disc views. Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus have racked up tens of millions of subscribers. It's easy to see why — viewing a movie on a streaming service costs a fraction of the price of viewing a movie on disc. . Overall sales of physical discs continued to decline.
Facebook’s entire business model is under fire in the EU Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.” Facebook (and just about every other free Web service) has built a business on that saying and its implications, and the European Commission is taking the social network to task for it. The EU is considering a ban on Facebook’s practice of selling demographic data to marketers and advertisers without specific permission from users. First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and behavioral information into a massive database. Facebook then uses that data — in an aggregated, anonymized form, of course — to sell media space to brands and advertising agencies. Now, however, the EC is planning to ban such activity unless users themselves specifically agree to it.