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Facebook is not just in the business of providing you with a service. It is also in the business of farming your data.
Privacy on Facebook: how much sharing is too much?
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Do we really want to protect our privacy when we expose it on social networks?
Under pressure: mark Zuckerberg testifies to the US Congress.
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After facing the US Congress the Facebook chief will have learned the easy part is over. From now on things will be tougher.
What will he decide to do?
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Facebook says it’s going to continue to respond to widespread concerns about its practices and role in society. Researchers of privacy and online trust offer ideas for immediate action.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’s ‘not familiar’ with shadow profiles.
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Not on Facebook? Well the social media giant could still have created a shadow profile for you, without your knowledge or permission.
Does this man understand how his company can be a responsible member of society?
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Facebook is realizing it has broad obligations to society. Here’s how it could start meeting them.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying on Capitol Hill.
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Experts reviewed more than five hours of testimony Facebook’s notoriously reserved CEO gave to Congress, searching for nonverbal clues to understand what he’s really thinking.
Social media companies combine many pieces of information into a complex digital profile.
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For years, watchdogs have warned of the potential problems of sharing data with online companies. The Facebook data crisis has made these concerns much more real. What should be done now?
What role did you play?
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The current reckoning with data has been a long time coming, a historian of privacy in the US writes.
What are the rules governing who’s watching you online?
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US privacy laws focus on informing consumers what’s happening with their data; other countries specifically restrict data collection and analysis.
What will Mark Zuckerberg say to Congress?
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Scholars discuss the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal: what happened, what’s at stake, how to fix it, and what could come next.
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When building a smart city, it’s vital that governments and citizens know up-front who will control the collected data.
Many social media users have been shocked to learn the extent of their digital footprint.
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The silver lining to the Cambridge Analytica case is that more people are recognising that we pay for online services with not only our own privacy, but that of our friends, family and colleagues.
Facebook already controls how its users’ data can be gathered and shared. It’s university ethics boards that need to join the digital age.
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal wasn’t a data breach – it was a violation of academic ethics. Maybe it’s universities, not social networks, that need to update their privacy settings.
A smartphone is a digital form of ID for many apps and services.
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Smartphones are key elements of two-factor authentication processes. Weakening their security threatens people’s digital identities.
Digital documents are not nearly as easy to retrieve.
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What happens to your Facebook account, your iTunes purchases and your email messages when you die?
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Companies are compiling your smartphone data into shockingly intimate profiles that can be used against you.
Fitness trackers report their location and map the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
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It’s not just fitness trackers – mobile phones can reveal users’ whereabouts too, even with location tracking turned off.
Who’s sharing your secrets?
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What scholars know, are learning and are predicting about the privacy of electronic data, online activity, smartphone use and electronic records.
How much can your cellphone reveal about where you go?
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Should police be able to use cellphone records to track suspects – and law-abiding citizens?