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  1. Insights From 7th Graders About Google, Smartphones, Panda, Privacy & Paid Search

    I was amazed at how much the class retained, how interested they were in digital marketing, and how my points about privacy resonated with them. I will remember that tons of sites have been destroyed by Panda, and that it’s cool that there are over...

  2. Facebook Claims Site Scraper Responsible for Leak of 1 Million User Emails

    As we mentioned yesterday, users may have changed their privacy settings between the time the information was harvested and when the list was compiled, on October 13th, 2012. Some appear to have been created after the last major privacy breach...

  3. Facebook & Twitter Apps Exploited to Profit From Private Data

    The seller claims to have collected the information over a period of six months, meaning users might have changed their privacy settings between the time of collection and our verification. The information in this list has been collected through...

  4. Facebook-Datalogix Partnership to Track Offline Purchases by 100 Million+ Households

    Under terms of that settlement, which was finalized last month, Facebook agreed to obtain users' "express consent" before sharing any information that exists outside the auspices of its privacy settings and to provide users with "clear and...

  5. Facebook Mobile Ads a Hit for Investors, But What About Marketers?

    Facebook is pushing the limits in just about every way possible to generate the revenue they need to justify their IPO, but privacy watchdogs are pushing back. Click-through rates on Facebook mobile ads are significantly higher than those of their...

  6. Facebook Settles Privacy Lawsuit, Buys Facial Recognition Company Face.com

    In 2011, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint against Facebook with the FTC over their facial recognition capabilities. Some European companies have already raised concerns about Facebook’s autotagging practice, citing...

  7. Facebook Wants to Welcome Kids Under Age 13 to Social Network

    COPPA is the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which prohibits sites from knowingly disclosing children’s personally identifiable information. Facebook is reportedly testing out controls that would allow users under the age...