
Custom Audiences May Be Facebook’s Most Compelling Ad Product
Custom Audiences tool. Introduced in August last year, Custom Audiences enables Facebook marketers to target their existing users based...

Storify Allows Private Facebook Posts To Be Seen Publicly
uncovered a serious privacy issue around Facebook posts published to the site by Storify. Using the Storify app or embed code users can...

How Facebook Tagging Helped Make Randi Zuckerberg’s “Private” Photo Go Public
Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wasn’t happy when a private photo she shared on Facebook when public. Unhappy...

Instagram Updates Privacy Policy, Begins Sharing Data With Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg initiated Facebook’s purchase of Instagram back in April of this year. Today, Instagram officially “friend-ed” Facebook...

New Facebook Privacy Changes Feature Simpler Privacy Shortcuts & Request And Removal Tool
No longer will users be required to navigate through both account & privacy settings pages to manage sensitive Facebook information. The...

1.1 Million Facebook Users’ Email Addresses Purchased For $5, Facebook Claims Data Was Scraped
managed to purchase 1.1 million user email addresses for the meager price of $5. The majority of the email addresses were from the US,...

Your Private Facebook Messages Aren’t So Private: Shared Links Count Towards ‘Like’
TheNextWeb uncovered a bug last week that was actually providing two Likes for data shared privately. Facebook did confirm that the issue...

Get Real: Facebook Asking Users To Rat Out Friends Who Aren’t Using Real Names
Facebook is serious about using real names for user profiles, so much so that they are now recruiting user to help identify their...

FTC Approves Facebook Privacy Settlement Reached Last November
The agreement — unlike the $22.5 million agreement with Google announced yesterday — doesn’t call for any monetary penalty. It does,...

Norway Investigating Facebook Facial Recognition Tagging
according to Bloomberg. This time it’s Norway seeking to determine whether Facebook has violated its privacy rules. Norway’s...

Washington State Partners With Facebook To Help Register Voters
If you live in Washington state a new way to register to vote will soon by available. A Facebook app will reside on the Secretary of...

Senate Hearing To Examine Facebook’s Facial Recognition
Senate hearing on Wednesday. According to The Hill, Facebook will send Rob Sherman, its Washington DC-based Manager of Privacy and Public...

Facebook Changes Displayed Email Addresses To @facebook.com Versions
Historically users chosen a selected email that displays on their profile pages. However, Facebook has recently swept through forcing all...

Nobody Tracks Web Users More Than Google & Facebook, Report Says
Those two companies filled out the top five spots in Evidon’s Global Tracker Report, which was released on Tuesday. The report uses data...

Facebook May Consider Letting Children Under 13 Create Accounts
Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is considering letting those under the age of 13 on the site. Since day one, Facebook has...

Larry Page: It’s “Unfortunate” That Facebook Keeps Data Closed & Holds Users
Google’s CEO Larry Page made an apperance on Charlie Rose yesterday, and he didn’t have many nice things to say about Facebook. Rose...

Facebook IPO Fails To Deliver Anticipated “Pop”
I believed there was considerable pent-up demand for what was the biggest tech IPO ever. But that demand never fully materialized....

Twitter Now Supports “Do Not Track” Capability
As announced on the Twitter Twitter account and further explained by the New York Times, Twitter becomes another high-profile publisher...

Truthdig’s Robert Scheer: Facebook Helps “A Denial Of Basic Human Rights”
Scheer is an old-school veteran journalist. He has several books to his credit, is a professor of journalism at the University of...
























