Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Facebook is starting to implement changes that will require applications to specify what personal information they will access and use. Eventually all third party applications users install will have to disclose the private information they access. "Last month, we announced a number of changes to make privacy simpler and to give you [...]
Islamabad (ip-192.com): Pakistan blocked access to Google's YouTube service due to "objectionable content." A day earlier, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked access to the social networking site Facebook, following a court order. More than 450 web links were unavailable; including certain pages on Wikipedia and Flickr, as the government widened a crackdown on material [...]
Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple plans to integrate Facebook into the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to a report from the Gunning for Safety blog. The blog says that the developer preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 contains code that will allow users to set up their Facebook account just like a Google Gmail account. This [...]
Arkadelphia (ip-192.com): A 16-year old boy filed a harassment claim against his mother after she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted some slandering comments. The Arkansas teenager says that his mother changed the password on the account to prevent him from using it. A post about a high speed outing seems to be [...]
Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Email addresses marked private were exposed on Facebook Tuesday night due to an apparent technical glitch. Twitter users angrily discussed the new mishap that lasted for at least 30 minutes. The social networking site is already in the spotlight for frequent changes to its privacy policy (ip-192.com reported here). If implemented, the [...]
Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Facebook is tweaking its policies again, and the proposed updates indicate that the long rumored location-based service may come sooner rather than later. "The last time we updated the privacy policy, we included language describing a location feature we might build in the future. At that point, we thought the primary use [...]
