Posts Tagged Facebook Privacy

This Halloween, Take This Lollipop

21 Oct 2011

Just in time for Halloween, there’s a new viral sensation making the rounds on the social web that may be one of the most surprising and unexpected uses of Facebook Connect yet: a website called Take This Lollipop.

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Understanding Your Privacy With Facebook Places

19 Aug 2010

The time has come for the oft-discussed Facebook Places to finally launch. One of the biggest topics of discussion around Facebook Places is how this will affect user privacy – especially due to some of the huge privacy issues in the past that Facebook has had to deal with. The Facebook Places functionality just became available to many of us here at Room 214 and we have already noticed some interesting privacy issues that you should definitely take note of. When I checked in to Room 214, I was not listed in the “Person/People Here Now” area at the top of our new Room 214 Places listing. However, a few of my colleagues did show up here: Turns out, some users’ default privacy settings allows this information to be displayed by default, while some others (like myself) do not. If you go to your privacy settings (Account > Privacy Settings…

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