Incident-prone social network monolith Facebook has plugged yet another security leak, this time involving the indexing by search engines of email addresses not listed on Facebook. Thousands of email addresses submitted using Facebook’s "Find a friend" feature that were not tied to a Facebook account wound up getting indexed by Google, according to Blogger Cory...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits that Facebook “missed the mark” with its recent privacy changes, promising that simpler privacy controls are on the way. In an op-ed piece published in theĀ Washington Post Monday, Zuckerberg loosely outlines the company’s plan to make things easier on users and promises that...
"Sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data? Add you name to commit and quit!" Yesterday was Quit Facebook Day, organised by two developers Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee, when more than 33,000 Facebook users pledged to remove their profiles in protest at the site’s shifting policies on privacy and personal data. So how...