Gregarious and Direct: China’s Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full …
ISIS Threat at Home: FBI Warns US Military About Social Media Vulnerabilities
The FBI on Sunday issued the strongest warning to date about possible attacks by the ISIS terrorist group against the U.S. military inside the …
Facebook developing a professional website ‘Facebook at Work’ – FT
Facebook Inc is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” that would allow users to keep their personal profile separate from …
How much is your Pinterest account worth? Meet the top ‘pinfluencers’ earning up to $250,000 a year from the picture posting site
The world’s most popular Pinterest users are earning up to $250,000 a year, thanks to an increasing number of lucrative endorsements and brand collaborations …
Seoul police arrest student for hacking 104 websites
A college student has been arrested by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency for allegedly hacking 104 websites in 24 countries. The 20-year-old student, identified …
Facebook data mining for political views
Facebook is mining its data of users’ posts to find out how users feel about certain candidates or issues and sharing that data with …
Six Alternatives to Google and Facebook in the Battle for Online Privacy
Business and public sentiment towards Facebook and Google’s use of private, sensitive data is growing increasingly negative as they develop more products to harness …
Privacy experts call for Whisper to be investigated over tracking of some users
Privacy experts on Friday called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine social media app Whisper’s tracking of “anonymous users”. The US consumer …
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking …
5 Questions With Mark Cuban About Online Privacy
It might seem like a contradiction that an executive and celebrity with a huge public persona would be blazing trails for online privacy, but …
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