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...aren’t as happy is simple: “Get over it.” Justin Smith of InsideFacebook.com, a blog that covers the company, said he views New Facebook as a definite improvement for application developers, whose products are now able to publish updates directly on users?? profiles. “The profile page is becoming one big feed that shows your activity on the site,” he said. “People can now learn about you based on what you’ve been doing instead of what you write yourself...
Playing Jetman on Facebook.com may cause you to lose more than just the game. Your private information is also at stake. Facebook application developers—who can be anybody—are unnecessarily given full access to both users?? and their friends’ private information, according to a University of Virginia study. Adrienne Felt, a senior at the University of Virginia who conducted the study, looked at the top 150 Facebook applications and what information they require in order to run. She concluded that only 9.3 percent of these applications required private information?...
...students would be allowed to appeal. The data accessible to administrators consists primarily of e-mails, but also includes items saved on the server, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Client Technology Adviser Noah S. Selsby ’95. “Snapshots” of users?? information are saved for two weeks and then recycled; e-mail kept in the inbox is saved even if it was sent more than two weeks ago. The content of mail forwarded to an outside account and auto-deleted is not included in these snapshots, though the date...
...enough in protecting students’ privacy. Even though we recognize that students give up some of their privacy by accepting University e-mail addresses, students should be able to communicate without being subject to any University surveillance. We hope that an eventual move to outsource webmail, by removing users?? data from the direct control of Harvard system administrators, will solve many of these problems, but for the present, stronger institutional safeguards to protect student privacy should be instituted...
...member of the class of 2006, posted on The Facebook Blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it,” he wrote Facebook Beacon, which was introduced in early November, allows affiliated Web sites to send information about users?? activities to their Facebook friends. When a user makes a purchase on a variety of sites including Overstock.com, Blockbuster.com, and several other online retailers, Facebook displays details about the transaction in their friends’ “News Feed.” Zuckerberg wrote on the blog...