Everything’s Public & Visible on Facebook II

We had posted about Privacy concerns on Facebook earlier this year.  It seems that this debate has started again, though it may have come from unfounded sources.
There was an invitation floating around Facebook some time back, asking if we wanted to install and run ‘Facebook Premium’.  This has been blogged by early adopters and geek [...]

Everything’s Public and Visable on Facebook 1

This is really just a head’s up and review of a post Forlorncow passed on from the Survellience State blog here.
It seems that Facebook applications use more of your information than you may want to share when you add them:
“…Facebook launched its widely popular application developer program back in May 2007. As of press time, [...]

Ginger Haters on Facebook

Police are looking into attacks on ginger kids in Canada, after an “anti-ginger” group was set up on Facebook. It seems as if the group was inspired by the South Park episode about ginger kids. The group promoted an event called “National Kick a Ginger Day”, which led to several kids being beaten up [...]

Facebook wins suit against spammer

Facebook has just won a $837 million judgement against a spammer who posted sexually explicit spam on the site.  Before getting caught, the Canadian man managed to send out over 4 million messages in just two months to users of the social networking (er… social utility site).  While they don’t actually expect to see any [...]