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Facebook Privacy Guide

by Barbara J. Feldman September 8, 2010

With its new Facebook Places service, Facebook recently pitted itself against Foursquare in the location-based social media market. Almost immediately concerns over privacy were raised by the ACLU, who says that opting out of public tagging of your location is too difficult. To learn how to lock down the various geo-tagging features of Facebook, take [...]

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How To Untag Yourself on Facebook

by Barbara J. Feldman July 28, 2010

Sooner or later it’s bound to happen. One of your Facebook friends thinks that photo of you is just so hilarious. They’ve uploaded it and tagged you. And now it’s there for all your friends to see. You, however, don’t think the photo is all that great. In fact, you hate the photo and wish [...]

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Federal Privacy Guidelines for Social Networking Sites?

by Barbara J. Feldman May 12, 2010

The use of Facebook’s new social plugins and its Open Graph initiative grew from an initial base of seventy-five partner sites, to use on over 50,000 websites in just one week. The ability for users to declare that they “Like” a site and tell all their Facebook friends about it, has not only been a [...]

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How to Tweet With Your Location

by Barbara J. Feldman March 21, 2010

Twitter recently announced a new feature that optionally adds your location to your tweet. The Tweet With Location feature is off by default (thank goodness!) and you’ll need to opt into the service before you can use it. After you’ve opted in, you still have the choice to turn off location reporting for each tweet [...]

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