It wiped out accounts locked due to misbehavior, obliterating about 4 followers for non-famous mortals and millions for the glitterati.
Tag Archives: Social networks
Facebook ordered to let grieving mother in to dead daughter’s account
The girl’s parents want access to her account to see if her death was the result of cyberbullying.
Why the airplane romance that went viral should worry everyone
Covert footage taken of two strangers on a plane went viral as people mooned over The Lovebirds In The Air (And Mucho Spying) Affair.
Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data
What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.
Facebook and Google accused of manipulating us with “dark patterns”
Privacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy.
Are you happy with this technology that Facebook’s developing?
New patents suggest Facebook’s going to soon know when you’re asleep, when you’re awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you’re going to die.
Twitter introduces another way for you to better secure your account
Twitter has added the ability to authenticate to the service using hardware tokens such as Yubico’s YubiKey.
Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people
In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients.
Holy Potatoes! Popular games remove “spyware” after gamers revolt
Whether what Red Shell does is an invasion of privacy or a harmless tool seems to depend on whether you’re a developer or a gamer.
Busted by a Facebook ‘friend’ who’s an undercover cop? It’s legal!
Friending somebody means assuming the risk that they’re an undercover cop or informant.