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WhatsApp is allang niet meer alleen iets voor in de privé-sferen. Collega’s gebruiken het onderling voor het werk. Medewerkers die bedrijfsinformatie of klantgegevens delen in WhatsApp-groepjes zijn geen uitzondering. De meeste organisaties vinde…
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A German court has filed a $26,000 fine against Mark Zuckerberg because Facebook violates the country’s law stating citizens may use media services anonymously. Facebook plans to “fight [the fine] vigorously”. That’s wise, as altering its real-name policy could jeopardize the social network’s future. Prohibiting pseudonyms lets Facebook remove spammers and serve as an identity provider for the web
If you don’t trust Facebook, you might keep an account, but you won’t share as much. So Facebook is aiming to educate users about privacy in hopes they’ll keep doubling the amount they share each year — Zuckerberg’s Law. Facebook privacy can’t be “good enough”. It needs us confident in our control, because as it runs low on people to sign up, attracting more data is the main way it will grow.
If new Facebook users understand their privacy on the site, they’ll trust Facebook more and share more too. So Facebook has just made privacy education a central part of the sign-up flow. New users are taught about their default controls, how to limit the audience of their posts, and how ads and apps work. Facebook also added in-line privacy controls so users can customize their settings right from the start.
Over the past 6 months, Facebook has released a seemingly unending flow of upgrades for its Ad platform. These have ranged from promoted posts, mobile/desktop segmentation, inline ad manager notifications and most recently, a simpler user-interface so that small businesses can better self-serve ad types. During this now post-IPO period, there has been next to […]
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No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a Powerpoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2”, and when hovered “Josh Constine | Eric Eldon”. The feature is rolling out to English-language groups starting now.
These “read receipts” is a feature Facebook recently added to Messages and Chat, and that has historically been found in some private email and SMS services. Bringing them to more public social feeds is a bold step.
They’ll certainly simplify coordination in Groups and remove the need for “did you see that?” messages. But will read receipts come to the news feed? Some people might find that very creepy.
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A German court ruling against Facebook this morning is likely moot because the social network had already made changes to address the court’s mandates.
See, back in 2010 a German consumer organization complained Facebook’s Friend Finder inviter feature didn’t adequately inform users their imported contacts would be used to send invites, according to Friending Facebook Blog. But Facebook has since made numerous changes to Friend Finder, including adding a disclaimer, providing an improved contacts manager, and adding unsubscribe options to email invites. It probably won’t have to make any significant changes in response to this ruling.
Lees meerAs a mother, I will do anything to protect my two-year-old daughter; which is why I was royally freaked out last year when two things happened: Number one: A friend came over to my house and used her mobile phone to “check in” on Foursquare, thereby revealing my address to all of her followers. Not […]
Lees meerAs has occurred several times since its launch in 2004, Facebook is going through another transformation and step forward in making sharing information, photos and videos more intuitive and easier for users to post and their network of contacts to follow. The new “Timeline” display, which makes sorting through a user’s history on the site […]
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