“Big Brother” is Big Business – How Remaining Anonymous is Almost Impossible

05/17/2013 By Leave a Comment

Privacy being erased-1Article is courtesy of 60 Minutes and CBS News.

The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. Lesley Stahl reports on the new ways this technology is being used that even has one of its inventors calling it too intrusive. Her 60 Minutes report will be broadcast Sunday, May 19 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. [Read more...]

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Why I Quit Facebook – Christopher Thompson in The Union Leader

04/30/2013 By

Facebook-2Article authored by Christopher Thompson and appeared in The New Hampshire Union Leader.  Article is courtesy of unionleader.com

Three months ago, I made a decision that drastically changed things in my personal and professional life. I quit Facebook. Since I shut my Facebook account down, I’ve had a lot of friends and colleagues ask me why I defriended them. I had to explain that I didn’t delete them as a friend; I deleted my entire Facebook account. [Read more...]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Group Is Trashing Obama And Obamacare And Promoting Wildlife Oil Drilling [video]

04/29/2013 By Leave a Comment

Mark Zuckerburg-2Article authored by Henry Blodget and appeared on Business Insider.  Article is courtesy of businessinsider.com

If you want to get a feel for how American politics really works, as opposed to the way they tell you it works, look no further than what’s going on behind the scenes at the new political action group started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of other Silicon Valley tech leaders. [Read more...]

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CISPA: U.S. Employees Set to be Forced to Give Bosses their Facebook Passwords

04/23/2013 By Leave a Comment

CISPAArticle authored by Steve Nolan and appeared on The Daily Mail.  Article is courtesy of dailymail.co.uk

An attempt to ban U.S bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress.

A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented employers demanding that prospective employees disclose social media passwords as a condition of employment was voted down in the house of representatives. [Read more...]

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Facebook Executive Sheryl Sandberg is a Fake and Offers Terrible Feminist Advice for Working Women – NYPOST.com

03/15/2013 By Leave a Comment

Sheryl SandbergArticle authored by Andrea Peyser and appeared in the New York Post.  Article is courtesy of nypost.com

Sheryl Sandberg is hazardous to women.

The chief operating officer of Facebook, the universe’s top working mom, has reinvented herself as a latter-day guru to the fair sex — the rare lady who strives to give a leg up to the sisterhood.

But those who follow Sheryl’s lead are bound to be disappointed — bitter, broke, unemployed, and perpetually single. [Read more...]

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Share This? Facebook Reveals Secrets You Haven’t Shared – FT.com

03/12/2013 By

Facebook-2Article authored by  Bede McCarthy and Robert Cookson and appeared in The Financial Times.  Article is courtesy of ft.com

The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study.

Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users’ sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge university academics. [Read more...]

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Facebook Admits Teens are Tiring of Social Network; Turning to Newer ‘Cooler’ Apps – Mail Online

03/04/2013 By

Mark Zuckerburg-1Article authored by James Nye and appeared in the Daily Mail.  Article is courtesy of dailymail.co.uk

Facebook has made the startling admission that teenagers are becoming bored with the social networking giant.

Facing competition from younger, more agile and ‘cooler’ apps such as Snapchat and Instagram, Facebook fears its long-term business could be harmed. [Read more...]

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