The Last Word on Privacy (by corbettreport)

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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6660

On December 28, 2012, in the midst of the holiday news break and under cover of the “fiscal cliff” hype, the US Senate quietly voted to approve a renewal of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although hardly discussed at the time and almost never brought up since, the 2008 FISA Amendments Act represented a fundamental change to the US government’s official, on-the-record approach to the collection of personal data on its own citizens and others around the world. Find out more about the FISA Amendments Act, Facebook, and the end of privacy in this installment of The Last Word from corbettreport.com

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We're watching: The camera that can recognise you from your #FB #Facebook picture every time you walk into a shop

Facedeals - a new camera that can recognise shoppers from their Facebook pictures as they enter a shop, and then offer them discounts

Facedeals - a new camera that can recognise shoppers from their Facebook pictures as they enter a shop, and then offer them discounts

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Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.

Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.

Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals.

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A promotional video created to promote the concept shows drinkers entering a bar, and then being offerend cheap drinks as they are recognised.

‘Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,’ saidNashville-based advertising agency Redpepper.

They are already trialling the scheme in firms close to their office.

‘A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers.

‘The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among them), and the incentives for a check-in are not nearly enticing enough for us to take the time.

‘So we set out to evolve the check-in and sweeten the deal, making both irresistible.

‘We call it Facedeals.’

The Facedeal camera can identify faces when people walk in by comparing Facebook pictures of people who have signed up to the service

The Facedeal camera can identify faces when people walk in by comparing Facebook pictures of people who have signed up to the service

Facebook recently hit the headlines when it bought face.com, an Israeli firm that pioneered the use of face recognition technology online.

The social networking giant uses the software to recognise people in uploaded pictures, allowing it to accurately spot friends.

The software uses a complex algorithm to find the correct person from their Facebook pictures

The software uses a complex algorithm to find the correct person from their Facebook pictures

The Facebook camera requires people to have authorised the Facedeals app through their Facebook account.

This verifies your most recent photo tags and maps the biometric data of your face.

The system then learns what a user looks like as more pictures are approved.

This data is then used to identify you in the real world.

In a demonstration video, the firm behind the camera showed it being used to offer free drinks to customers if they signed up to the system.

In a demonstration video, the firm behind the camera showed it being used to offer free drinks to customers if they signed up to the system.

Video Here:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187801/Were-watching-The-camera-recognise-Facebook-picture-time-walk-shop.html

#Facebook Facing a $138,000 Fine For Holding Deleted User Data - #FollowThisExample

 

Facebook‘s Ireland offices are being audited, as the company is facing a possible €100,000 ($138,000) fine for retaining data deleted by users, The Guardian reports.

The case began when a 24-year-old Austrian law student, Max Schrems, asked Facebook for a copy of all his personal data in June. Facebook complied, sending him a CD containing 1,200 pages of data, including his likes, “friend” and “defriend” history, and chat logs.

The problem? Schrems had deleted some of the data returned to him from his profile, yet Facebook retained his information.

Schrems proceeded to start an initiative called Europe vs. Facebook, and filed 22 individual claims about the social network’s practices.

The complaints include some of the ways Facebook keeps deleted user data, and highlight some of Facebook’s Terms of Service and business shortcomings.

“Postings that have been deleted showed up in the set of data that was received from Facebook,” says one complaint. “The privacy settings only regulate who can see the link to a picture. The picture itself is “public” on the internet. This makes it easy to circumvent the settings,” says another.

According to ZDNet, the complaints have already yielded results: Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has called for an audit of Facebook’s offices, which will take place before Christmas.

Should the DPC find Facebook has breached Irish data protection law, it can ask the company to change the way it handles personal data. Should Facebook fail to comply, it could face a fine of up to €100,000 ($138,000). Of course, for Facebook, the negative publicity could be more damaging than the amount of the fine.

In February 2009, Facebook changed its Terms of Service, giving itself the right to use or modify user data in any way it wants, even if a user quits the service.

This subtle change in Facebook’s TOS prompted a huge public backlash, ultimately forcing Facebook to backpedal a little. In an elaborate blog post, Mark Zuckerberg explained why the company feels it needs to retain a copy of user’s data.

While some of his arguments are valid — for example, it’s very tricky to permanently delete a message you’ve sent another user, as the other user also has the right to keep his/her copy — this latest incident might once again spark complaints from users feeling Facebook has granted itself too many liberties with their data.

With the public roll-out of Timeline on the horizon, many users are bound to have a slew of new privacy concerns. If you are already using Timeline, have you found any of your data you thought was hidden or deleted appearing publicly? Please share your experiences below.

Facebook’s Data Pool - #FB #facebook #surveillance #tracking #spying
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#friendsdontletfriendsfacebook

Introduction.

Every person in the EU has the right to access all the data that a company is holding about him/her. You can find out how to access your facebook data on the page “your data…”. After we got the first response by facebook it was clear to us that we had to publish this information online. By doing so, we want to make facebook more transparent and show every user which data facebook is holding about us.

There is more Data.

Many groups of data are not included in this first set of data we got from facebook. For example data concerning the “like”-function, tracking on other webpages, face recognition, videos, postings on other users walls, indicators for the intensity of relationships, tags that werde removes and many more were (so far) not disclosed by facebook.

Index.

These groups of data were disclosed by facebook (click for more details):

00. Target
00. Date Range
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01. About Me
02. Account End Date
03. Account Status History
04. Address
05. Alternate Name
06. Applications
07. Chat
08. Checkins
09. Connections
10. Credit Cards
11. Currency
12. Current City

13. Date of Birth
14. Education
15. E-Mails
16. Events
17. Family
18. Favourite Quotes
19. Friend Requests
20. Friends
21. Gender
22. Groups
23. Hometown
24. Last Location
25. Linked Accounts
26. Locale
27. Logins

28. Machines
29. Messages
30. Minifeed
31. Name
32. Name Changes
33. Networks
34. Notes
35. Notification Settings
36. Notifications
37. Password
38. Phone Numbers
39. Photos
40. Physical Tokens
41. Pokes
42. Political Views

43. Privacy Settings
44. Profile Blurb
45. Realtime Activities
46. Recent Activities
47. Registration Date
48. Relationship
49. Religious Views
50. Removed Friends
51. Screen Names
52. Shares
53. Status Updates
54. Vanity
55. Wallposts
56. Website
57. Work

Facebook tracks you even after logging out - #RealFriendsDontLetFriendsFacebook

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Facebook cookie collection ‘could be dangerous’

A cyberlaw expert says third parties and advertisers could abuse Facebook’s practice - as claimed by a blogger - of tracking online activity even after users log out of the social network

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An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site.

Separately, Facebook’s new Timeline feature, launched last week, has been inadvertently accessed by users early, revealing a feature that allows people to see who removed them from their friends’ lists.

Facebook’s changes - which turn profiles into a chronological scrapbook of the user’s life - are designed to let its 800 million members share what they are reading, listening to or watching in real time. But they have been met with alarm by some who fear over-sharing.

Causing a stir ... Nik Cubrilovic.

Causing a stir … Australian Nik Cubrilovic first spotted the tracking issue. Photo: Flickr.com/e27singapore

Of course, Facebook’s bottom line improves the more users decide to share. Reports suggest that Facebook staff refer internally to “Zuck’s law”, which describes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s belief that every year people share twice as much online - a trend that has caused Facebook’s valuation to skyrocket towards $US100 billion.

“Facebook is a lot more than a social network and ultimately wants to be the premier platform on which people experience, organise and share digital entertainment,” said Ovum analyst Eden Zoller.

But in alarming new revelations, Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic conducted tests, which revealed that when you log out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify you.

Facebook founder shows off the new Facebook profiles at the F8 conference last week.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shows off the new Facebook profiles at the F8 conference last week. Photo: AFP

Whenever you visit a web page that contains a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending details of your movements back to Facebook, Cubrilovic says.

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,” Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.

“The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.”

Facebook's new Timelines feature creates a chronological scrapbook of major events in your life.

Facebook’s new Timelines feature creates a chronological scrapbook of major events in your life. Photo: AFP

Cubrilovic is working on a new unnamed start-up but has previously been involved with large technology blog TechCrunch and online storage company Omnidrive.

He backed up his claims with detailed technical information. His post was picked up by technology news sites around the world but Facebook has yet to provide a response to Fairfax Media and others.

David Vaile, executive director of UNSW’s Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, said Facebook’s changes were a ”breathtaking and audacious grab for whole life data”. In an email interview he accused the social networking site of attempting to ”normalise gross and unsafe overexposure”.

”While initially opt-in, the default then seems to be expose everything, and Facebook have form in the past for lowering protection after people get used to a certain level of initial protection - bait and switch,” he said.

Stephen Collins, spokesman for the online users’ lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said he did not believe Cubrilovic’s revelations would see people turn away from the site in droves but he hoped users became more engaged with the issue.

”Facebook, once again, are doing things that are beyond most users’ capacity to understand while reducing their privacy. That’s just not cool. I’d go so far as to say it’s specifically unethical,” he said.

Collins said the only reason he still uses Facebook is to help his 14-year-old daughter on the site. He said it took him an hour to lock down his profile to his satisfaction following the recent changes.

”It’s just not good enough. The default setting for any site should be ‘reveal nothing about me unless I make a specific choice otherwise’,” he said.

Others have compared Facebook’s changes to Bentham’s panopticon - a design for a prison where the guards can see all inmates but where the inmates never know whether they’re being watched. The result, applied to Facebook, is that real-time sharing means we always feel like we’re being watched and this then influences our behaviour.

Cubrilovic said he tried to contact Facebook to inform it of his discovery but did not get a reply. He said there were significant risks to the privacy of users, particularly those using public terminals to access Facebook.

“Facebook are front-and-centre in the new privacy debate just as Microsoft were with security issues a decade ago,” Cubrilovic said.

“The question is what it will take for Facebook to address privacy issues and to give their users the tools required to manage their privacy and to implement clear policies - not pages and pages of confusing legal documentation, and ‘logout’ not really meaning ‘logout’.”

The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, would not comment specifically on Cubrilovic’s findings but said generally social networking sites need to clearly spell out when browsing information is being collected, the purposes for which it may be used and whether it will be disclosed to other organisations.

“Good practice would also be to allow for users to opt out of having it collected,” said Pilgrim.

The findings come after technology industry observer Dave Winer declared Facebook was scaring him because the new interface for third-party developers allows them to post items to your Facebook feed without your intervention. This has been dubbed “frictionless sharing”.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s Timeline feature, which shows users a timeline of their activity on the site throughout the years, has not officially been switched on but many are using it already. Instructions can be found here.

But inadvertently or by design, the Timeline feature also lets people see which users had “unfriended” them by following a few simple steps:

1. Enable the new Timeline feature.
2. Pick a year in the timeline and locate the Friends box.
3. Click on “Made X New Friends”.
4. Scroll through the list and when you see an “Add Friend” box, those are the people either you have unfriended or vice-versa.

However, it appears Facebook has now disabled this function, describing it to gadget blog Gizmodo as a “bug”.

Finally, security researchers were quick to hose down a hoax that spread through the social network, claiming that Facebook was planning to start charging users for the new features.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-tracks-you-even-after-logging-out-20110926-1ksfk.html#ixzz1Z5rsm91D


Anonymous News Network: Facebook Page Suspension, V's Retirement?

Our Facebook page was removed earlier this week, after which we were met with this message from the Facebook administrators:


We’ve been experiencing a lot of abuse of the “reporting” mechanism on Facebook, thanks to supporters of regimes in the Middle East and others dissatisfied with our reporting for whatever reason. For a while, sharing was disabled for some of our posts due to them being tagged as “offensive” or as “hate speech,” but regular readers will doubtless object to that statement. You can read our stories over the past several weeks to review our editorial policy and decide for yourself. We hope to get the page unsuspended as soon as possible.
In a series of unrelated events, changes to my (V’s) own personal situation mean that news coverage will not go forward. I’m trying to unsuspend the Facebook page so citizen-reporting can continue as usual from all the non-admin contributors to the page.
While the page suspension was not the initial motivator for my (possible) retirement from newsing, it didn’t make my decision any harder. Situations change, and unfortunately the circumstances were not right to make an occupation out of newsing and live off of any ad revenues I might generate. Additionally, the idealistic stance of a boycott of PayPal severely inhibits the ability to generate donations, and honestly, I feel somewhat bad accepting them.
I like to think that the entire exercise of creating ANN proved that anyone who is persistent and consistent enough can have their voice heard and their stories told, that technology enables speech to live more freely. Unfortunately, the human mind is still shackled to a meatbag that needs to eat ramen noodles and sleep under a roof. I suppose it affirms the fact that speech is only as free as the people who utter it, and that issues of economic hardship are inseparably linked to the freedom of speech.
I find it happy that there are people in the world willing to speak up for the voiceless and to say the true things that aren’t being said. If you find any sadness in my retirement, then take it as an invitation to think a little harder and to speak a little louder. It’s sad to say that truth needs good PR, but it’s happy to admit that people are willing to do it, even if only for a little while.
What I would like to do in the near future is to write on my experiences with Anonymous, free speech issues, and in general fighting the good fight. This was a very big year, and it bears some reflecting on. This will be completely free, and yes, it will be written anonymously. I hope you enjoy it.
I’ll keep you posted on what happens with the Facebook page. Until then, as always, keep the lights on for me and semper lulis, amigos.

Tech-Ex: Facebook and facial recognition can be used to hack your SSN

It’s been known since 2009 that the Social Security system has a huge security flaw: social security numbers are predictable if you know a person’s hometown and date of birth (it’s even used as a selling point by LifeLock). Now a new study by Carnegie Mellon University has determined that facial recognition software along with social media profile can be used in another end-run around the “randomness” of your social security number.

Alessandro Acquisti, the CMU professor who pointed out the 2009 security hole, headed up the team that found the new one. Acquisti’s research team, which included CMU postdoctoral fellows Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman, used off-the-shelf facial recognition software (PittPatt, recently acquired by Google), cloud computing and publicly available information from social network sites to break through the security in social security.

The results of the study will be discussed in detail at Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, later this week.

The key, it seems, is a searchable Facebook profile with a photo. If the profile from that profile had a person’s hometown and date of birth, they could then exploit the 2009 security hole, which relies on a change made by the Social Security Administration after 1987 that made it easier to predict SSNs.

In one test, the researchers used a set of data mined from Facebook, as well as PittPatt to search “anonymous singles” on a dating website. They were able to match 15 percent of the “singles.”

In a second test the researchers used a webcam to take photos of CMU students, and then asked the 93 who were participating in that part of the study to take an online survey. 42 percent of those participants were linked to their Facebook profiles.

Once again, with a link to their Facebook profile, given the hometown and date of birth information in their profile, the researchers could use the 2009 SSN security hole.

Acquisti and his team were able to predict the first five digits of a subject’s nine-digit Social Security numbers 27 percent of the time, in just four tries. “The chain of inferences comes from one single piece of anonymous information—somebody’s face.”

In addition, the CMU researchers built a smartphone application which demonstrated the ability to make the same personal “inferences” in real-time. The application uses online and offline data along with “augmented reality” technology to overlay personal and private information over the subject’s face on a device’s screen.

In a press release, Acquisti said, “Ultimately, all this access is going to force us to reconsider our notions of privacy. It may also affect how we interact with each other. Through natural evolution, human beings have evolved mechanisms to assign and manage trust in face-to-face interactions. Will we rely on our instincts or on our devices, when mobile phones can predict personal and sensitive information about a person?”

What #Google and #Facebook are Hiding (by undergod2010)

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Why Facebook's Facial Recognition is Creepy

facebook facial recognitionI’m not sure if you’ve heard the news, but Facebook is officially getting super-creepy. Facebook announced Tuesday that it will be implementing facial recognition technology for all users in the next few weeks, semi-automating the photo-tagging process.

Sure, you can “opt-out” of the service, but it’s a pretty weak consolation. After all, opting out won’t keep Facebook from gathering data and recognizing your face—it’ll just keep people from tagging you automatically.

facebook and Sarah Jacobsson PurewalThe new facial recognition technology, which was announced in December but only introduced to a small test group, is basically Facebook’s way of creating a huge, photo-searchable database of its users. And yes, it’s terrifying.

(See Related: Facebook Facial Recognition: Its Quiet Rise and Dangerous Future)

Basically, Facebook is using facial recognition technology to “suggest” tags to users who upload photos. In other words, if I upload six photos of my friend Kaitlin, Facebook may “recognize” her face (thanks to other tagged photos of her on the website) and “suggest” that I tag her in those six photos. This makes the tagging process a little easier for me—after all, aren’t I more likely to tag Kaitlin if all I have to do is click a button that says “yes, tag away”? Another “benefit” is that I can tag all of these photos of Kaitlin at once—as Facebook said in a blog post, isn’t it a whole lot better to be able to tag all of those photos of Kaitlin at once, instead of having to tag each one individually?

Sure, I guess it’s easier. Easier for Facebook to invade my privacy, that is.

Ok, I know I sound a little melodramatic. But let’s take a look at some facts here:

- Facebook has 600 million members.

- Each day, Facebook’s members upload over 200 million photos, and Facebook currently hosts over 90 billion photos.

- Each time you “tag” a photo on Facebook, its facial recognition technology learns more about what that person looks like.

- Even if you happen to “opt out” of the facial recognition tagging, Facebook’s technology can surely use the tagged photos of you (hey, perhaps even the tagged photos of you that you end up un-tagging) to figure out what you look like.

- Right now Facebook is using this technology to help people tag photos. But once they have an accurate facial recognition database of several hundred million people? Hmm.

facial recognition and facebookAt the end of the day, Facebook’s facial recognition technology is downright creepy. Opting out of the service doesn’t mean Facebook will stop trying to recognize your face—it just means that Facebook will stop suggesting that other people tag you. Even Google has noted the utter creepiness of facial recognition technology (though I suspect they’re just waiting for Facebook to get burned).

Facial recognition technology will ultimately culminate in the ability to search for people using just a picture. And that will be the end of privacy as we know it—imagine, a world in which someone can simply take a photo of you on the street, in a crowd, or with a telephoto lens, and discover everything about you on the internet.

Obviously, we can’t stop the world of technology from moving toward the development of accurate facial recognition software. But so far, no facial recognition software has really been a threat to our privacy, because nobody has that huge database of people and photos required. Oh wait, except Facebook totally does.

Yeah. So not only should you opt out of Facebook’s facial recognition technology by going to Account > Account Settings > Privacy > Customize Settings > Things Others Share and disabling “Suggest photos of me to friends,” you should also upload random pictures of trees and animals and stuffed toys and tag them as yourself.

Mac malware, Sony, Lulzsec, Facebook facial recognition, Lockheed/RSA - 90 Sec News - May 2011 (by SophosLabs)

Mac malware, Sony leaks, Lulzsec attacks, Facebook facial recognition, Lockheed/RSA - watch May’s security news in just 90 seconds!

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Facebook Password Extractor - Get passwords stored in Web browsers ~ THN : The Hackers News


Facebook Password Extractor is a free tool to recover passwords to Facebook accounts that are stored or cached in popular Web browsers.

Supporting the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Google Chrome, Facebook Password Extractor can reveal login information for multiple Facebook accounts in just a click.

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  2. Reveals stored login and password information instantly in just a click
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  5. Supports all versions of Opera including Opera 11
  6. Supports all versions of Google Chrome including Chrome 11
  7. Supports all versions of Apple Safari including Safari 5
  8. Reveals Facebook logins and passwords for all supported browsers
  9. Beats enhanced security model of Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9.


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#Facebook | Special Software Key | Political Facebook Groups | The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama holds up a Facebook hoodie sweater that was given to him by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, during a town hall meeting to discuss reducing the national debt, Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Facebook’s managers are deploying a new software upgrade that will dismantle myriad groups of like-minded political activists unless they get a special software-key from the company.

But Facebook managers are providing very limited information about which groups are being favored with the new key, prompting some activists to complain about possible political favoritism among Facebook managers, and many other activists to experiment with techniques and tricks to get the needed upgrade-key.

“Who is being given the upgrade?” asked Pamela Geller, the New York organizer of a 15,000-member group opposed to Islamist political groups. Without the special key, groups lose access to their members, she said. “I’ve seen people really freaking out.”

Facebook’s software changes do not impact the individual pages that Facebook subscribers use to stay in contact with friends and to tout their relationships, statuses and accomplishments. The upgrade only effects the software that links Facebook’s “groups” of like-minded people, each of which is managed by one or more group administrators.

The groups vary in size from a single person to more than one million people. They have varying levels of activity from nothing to very active.

The new software-upgrade will automatically archive all groups. Once archived, each group’s past activity will be still be visible on Facebook, but the groups’ administrators will lose access to their lists of group members. That means the administrators lose contact with everyone in their groups, and will be forced to recruit all those members again – unless Facebook provides them with the special upgrade software.

With the upgrade, group-administrators can keep in contact with their original members, and get to use the upgraded software to help the group become more active.

That’s why the upgrade software is so important to Geller and other activists. More than 700 administrators and Facebook-users have signed up with a new Facebook page, titled “Stop Them Trashing Our Groups,” to protest the company’s upgrade plans.

Geller’s “Stop Islamization of America” group has 15,062 members, but no upgrade-key, she said. If Facebook archives her group without allowing her to reach its members, she’ll have to rebuild the group from scratch, one e-mail at a time, she said. “I can’t just sit down and write a message to 15,000 members,” she said. “Why not just give us the upgrade option?”

“The Coalition to Save Marriage in New York” is a group of 1,163 social-conservatives seeking to preserve traditional marriage’s role as an institution for parents and child-rearing. The group has been very active this year trying to derail a gay-marriage push in the state assembly, but the group doesn’t have the upgrade, said the group’s administrator, Jason McGuire in Rochester, N.Y. “Nobody else that I know got one,” he said. “You do have to wonder if Facebook is leaning towards liberal positions, instead of being on open format,” he said.

Chicago libertarian activist Eric Odom has built an active 60,000-member group, but is not being offered an upgrade key.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence got the upgrade for its 1,000-member group. “We changed over very smoothly,” said David Churchill, the network-manager at the D.C.-based gun-control group. “We just basically clicked the upgrade button, checked it over, and we have a tremendous increase in participation,” he said.

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Facebook Says - I am vulnerable, Please Hack Me ! ~ THN : The Hackers News



I have so many friends on facebook and everyone of them always asks me why Facebook sucks ? So finally I am showing that facebook is completely against your Security & Privacy and there are more  other secure ways to connect with world, like Twitter, Orkut. Here we have One more Facebook vulnerable link , as shown below. It looks funny, but YES ! Facebook is the most vulnerable site on internet that is used by thousands of millions users daily.


Link : https://www.facebook.com/connect/connect_to_node_error.php?body=I%20am%20vulnerable,%20Please%20Hack%20Me%20!

Daily a new Vulnerability, 100’s of Scams Lets have a look on Some of them here :
1.) Police warns - Beware Facebook scams !
2.) New Facebook worm propagating : VERIFY MY ACCOUNT , Video Explanation of code !
3.) New Facebook Scam : WTF I can’t believe you’re in this video !
4.) Facebook new Vulnerability, Lots of Accounts misused for spamming !
5.) Script that gives hackers access to user accounts floods Facebook !
6.) JavaScript hole in Facebook !
7.) Vulnerability in Facebook Email feature Exposed !
8.) Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages !
9.) You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook !
10) Facebook Vulnerability - Beware of A New XSS on Facebook !
11) Facebook is not Exclusion, XML Vulnerability !

Where is the Risk :
One risk is that a significant number of people actually do stop using Facebook completely, possibly out of fear of how their data might be used, but also because they are fatigued by the constant changes. This hasn’t happened yet, despite many critics predicting that it would over the years. But there could still be a tipping point, where the build-up of issues finally convinces people to leave a msg.

The other risk is that agencies from national governments, particularly the United States’ Federal Trade Commission, impose stiff new regulations on what product changes that Facebook can make going forward, thereby limiting its ability to improve its products.

At last :
Facebook Prepares to Launch Bug Bounty Program - Get Details from here.

What Gog. and Facb. are Hiding (by cdr23d1)

Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it. In this TED Talk he calls out Facb, Gog. and other corporations who are transforming the Internet to suit their corporate interests.

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/05/what-google-and-facebook-are-hiding/?sms_ss=tu…
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

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