New App Grades Facebook Apps on Privacy
A new Facebook app from PrivacyChoice scores popular Facebook apps on how well they respect and enforce user privacy. full story
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Facebook Answers Questions About "Home" and Privacy
Filed under: Investing After recently launching Facebook Home, Facebook released a statement answering questions that Facebook and Android users had about the new product: It won't change users' privacy settings on Facebook. Its privacy controls work the same as they do on Facebook. Users don't have to use Home to access Facebook on Android. It's an option that customers...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store
Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone ‘Facebook’ apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduce its official app for the platform. Windows Phone 7 and 8 launched without a fully featured official Facebook app, but the OS has tight integration with Facebook as contacts and messages are baked in. Yet with the growth of...
pcworld.com (13 days ago)
Craig Kanalley: Here's What You Need To Know About Privacy & Facebook Home
A few days ago, Facebook unveiled Facebook Home, "a family of apps" to turn Android phones into Facebook-optimized devices. "This is one of the best Facebook experiences that you can get," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with Wired. But some of the first reactions to the news raised privacy concerns. Om Malik was most outspoken on the issue, writing a blog...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
How The Facebook Phone Destroys Your Privacy
Facebook's history as a repeat offender on privacy, and playing loose and easy with our data means that need to be even more vigilant about privacy issues, thanks to this Home app/faux-OS.
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
California AG Harris urges app developers to respect users' privacy
The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California attorney general Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday.Rather than resorting to subpoenas and enforcement actions, the California attorney general's office is in the midst of a crusade of sorts built around encouraging...
pcworld.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
Guardian Android app: being open about permissions
Like many apps, the Guardian Android app requests a number of permissions when you install it. Here's the full list and why we request each oneOn Android, 'permissions' are used when an app requests the right to do something with your phone like make it vibrate, make a call or access your data. Almost all apps need some special permissions, and the system is there to make...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 17 days ago)
Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
Facebook's history as a repeat offender on privacy, and playing loose and easy with our data means that need to be even more vigilant about privacy issues, thanks to this Home app/faux-OS.
gigaom.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer
Let’s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed “Apps Act“ to make privacy policies more transparent, a continued surge in mobile traffic means...
time.com (1 day ago)
US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill
New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect. The Application Privacy, Protection and Security (APPS) Act, introduced by Representative Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, and other lawmakers, would also require app...
pcworld.com (12 days ago)
Why You Might Not Want To Start Your Business As A Facebook App
There's a many advantages to starting a business that relies upon the Facebook platform: near 1 billion users of it just as a start. It's also a social network (well, D'Oh!) so take up can be impressively rapid. However, there's also a problem with basing oneself on Facebook: which is that it is indeed a platform. And they're trying to monetise that platform just as fast as...
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