Privacy, No Longer An Issue Says Facebook's Zuckerberg

Four out of 10 UK students or 42 percent fear the information posted on social networking platforms like Facebook could harm their future job prospects. This revelation was made public through a survey commissioned by...

New York based Proust.com unveiled a new social networking site today with the view of providing a platform for users to keep in touch with family and close friends. Unlike other social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter...

It appears that Apple is planning to launch its own social network especially developed for iOS users, according to a recent patent application. The app could help iOS users find other Apple fans who are nearby. This "ad hoc...

Facebook, Twitter and other US-based sites will be forced to follow European laws on data privacy protection, says European Commission Vice-President, Viviane Reding. Reding told an audience at the Privacy Platform in Brussels...

A new study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that social networking sites may have been compromising the location of their mobile users.According to the study all of the 20 sites researched, including 13 mobile...

Facebook has announced it is considering simplifying its security settings, following widespread controversy over the social network's handling of user data.Facebook's vice-president of public privacy, Eliot Schrage, revealed to...

Facebook has offered to meet the US senator who has called for a curb on the social network’s power to share users’ personal information. The offer came after New York senator Charles Schumer sent an open letter to...

A US senator has demanded action to protect the privacy of users on social networks. In a letter signed by four US senators, New York Democrat Charles Schumer called on the Federal Trade Commission to set out clear rules...

It seems that the erstwhile outcry over changing the site's terms and conditions has made Facebook extremely conscious about its users' privacy, as the social networking giant is planning to bring some notable changes in its...

Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users' privacy, Europe's privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are 'data controllers', with all the legal...

The major social networking companies have signed a European Commission-brokered agreement to do more to protect under 18s using their services.Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, Microsoft and others have all committed to change...

Shelly Palmer blogs about privacy and Twitter, as regards marketing companies mining the data: But those systems pale in comparison to the kinds of data we’re giving about ourselves on personalized media like social...

Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people's use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country's data protection...

A poll carried out by the Press Complaints Commission showed that nearly 80 percent of social networking users have expressed great concern about the possibility that the press could use details stored online in news articles. ...

The Official guidance issued today by the Information Commissioner whose office oversees how data is created, maintained and used across UK, is the latest sign of the growing uneasiness associated with social networking sites...