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The number one reason for users to quit Facebook was privacy concerns (48%), being followed by a general dissatisfaction with Facebook (14%), negative aspects regarding Facebook friends (13%), and the feeling of getting addicted to Facebook (6%). Facebook quitters were found to be more concerned about privacy, more addicted to the Internet, and ...
In 2004, thirty-one privacy and civil liberties organizations wrote a letter calling upon Google to suspend its Gmail service until the privacy issues were adequately addressed. The letter also called upon Google to clarify its written information policies regarding data retention and data sharing among its business units. The organizations ...
FTC Fair Information Practice Principles are the result of the commission's inquiry into the way in which online entities collect and use personal information and safeguards to assure that practice is fair and provides adequate information privacy protection. [2] The FTC has been studying online privacy issues since 1995, and in its 1998 report ...
Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices Facebook to pay record $5 billion U.S. fine over privacy violations but critics ...
Facebook estimates an FTC fine of $3 billion to $5 billion over its data privacy practices. It would be the largest-ever FTC fine on a U.S. tech company.
Facebook has been scrutinized for a variety of privacy concerns due to changes in its privacy settings on the site generally over time as well as privacy concerns within Facebook applications. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, first launched Facebook in 2004, it was focused on universities and only those with .edu address could open an account ...
Keywords. internet privacy. Lane vs. Facebook was a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California regarding internet privacy and social media. [1] In December 2007, Facebook launched Beacon, which resulted in users' private information being posted on Facebook without the users' consent.
The Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes are a collection of internet hoaxes claiming that posting a status on Facebook constitutes a legal notice protecting one's posts from copyright infringement [1] or providing privacy protection to one's profile information and posted content. The hoax takes the form of a Facebook status that urges others ...