Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has lost its latest bid to overturn a privacy ruling actioned in the French courts by actor Olivier Martinez, reports the Guardian. MGN publishes the Daily...

Read More: The UK’s Sunday Mirror publisher loses in landmark EU privacy case

In Tunisia, after the former president Ben Ali fled the country, the use of privacy tool Hotspot Shield took a dive, going from over 70 million page views in January, steadily...

Read More: Hotspot Shield: A quiet hero for Internet privacy and security around the world

Korean prosecutors investigating Google's use of Street View technology in the country believe they have identified the developer behind what it believes is a privacy-infringing feature, serving a notice and...

Read More: Korean prosecutors target Google Street View developer in privacy probe

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor responded to the oft repeated maxim ("meme" is what he called it) that Facebook privacy settings are needlessly complex by asserting that "the majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings" in a conversation with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit today.

"If you talk to college students they know what their parents can see, they know what their ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend can see." (I heard a "Yeah right" emanate from the audience when he said this) [...]

Read More: Most People Have Changed Their Privacy Settings On Facebook, Says Facebook CTO

Privacy seems to always be a concern of ours with Facebook…or is it? According to a recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 2,000 adults, users become less concerned with privacy the more they use Facebook, which makes sense, doesn't it?

Read More: Gallup Poll: The More You Use Facebook, The Less You Care About Privacy

What do social networking users worry about most? According to a new survey the answer is privacy.


Read More: Report: For Social Media Users Privacy Is a Huge Concern

Whenever reps from the big digital behemoths take to the stage to discuss their respective companies, people tend to listen. Whether that's Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, or Facebook, folk want to...

Read More: Facebook VP talks technology, data privacy & the London riots

Facebook’s latest update takes sharing to places Facebook has never been before, with their new subscribe feature, Timeline, Open Graph apps, built-in privacy settings in every post and more.  But along with the update comes some new concerns regarding privacy.  A new infographic from consumer Internet security brand ZoneAlarm explores six new privacy concerns that have arisen as a result of the latest Facebook update.


Read More: 6 Privacy Concerns Around The Latest Facebook Update [Infographic]

Prompted by the surge of new users to social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, an update was proposed to...

Read More: Social networks inspire an update to a law protecting children’s online privacy

In my last post I talked about the hot topic of who owns users’ geolocation data that apps collect.  This post I’m discussing what seems to be a perpetual hot topic: privacy.  The headlines over the last few weeks have shown to be particularly full of privacy headlines. To start, the Federal Trade Commission announced new proposed changes to the Childrens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which include stronger parental consent and data security requirements for [...]

Read More: User Privacy Policies in the News

These days most of us spend a lot of time on social sites like Facebook and Google+, but how often do we stop to think about privacy?  Unfortunately, not as often as we probably should.  In a new infographic shared exclusively with Social Times, PEER 1 Hosting explores the privacy settings on both Facebook and Google+ and reveals that even if we have our privacy settings in place we may not be as protected as we think we are.


Read More: Google+ Vs. Facebook Privacy [Exclusive Infographic]

With the announcement of the new Facebook Timeline came a lot of grunts, groans and privacy concerns. The new Timeline is all about sharing your life story, which means having it all out there on display. But what if you don't want to share your life story? What if you've been using Facebook for a ...

Read More: Top 5 Posts on Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

I have frequently been informed of my naiveté on this matter but I am going to say this anyway: I think the whole privacy scare regarding companies like Facebook and...

Read More: Why I am not paranoid about privacy on Facebook and Google

There are certain things users must sacrifice to play in the world of social media. One of them, to some extent, is privacy, and most who do "give it away" do so knowing that there are certain things they can do to keep private internet browsing, well, private. A common recommended practice for a while [...]

Read More: The End of Privacy: Facebook Tracks Your Moves Even If You Log Out

Even though it is not official yet, with a formal announcement later this week, Foursquare will be introducing a new privacy option to help prevent users from unknowingly share home addresses with complete strangers.


Read More: Foursquare Adds Privacy Option with Home Address

Facebook today said that it would sign a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect user data, reported Egypt.com. This is the first time that Facebook has agreed to a code of conduct on privacy in a security-sensitive nation like Germany.Richard Allan, Facebook's director of European public policy met with Germany's Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and the site agreed to sign a voluntary self-regulation agreement that brought its policies more in like with German data protection laws [...]

Read More: Facebook agrees to sign a voluntary privacy code in Germany

Facebook made many changes last week to its privacy policy and tagging options. The changes included features such as inline profile controls and approving or rejecting any photos you've been tagged in. Facebook has been working on these new options for most of 2011 and now they want your feedback. The Facebook Site Governance page ...

Read More: Submit Your Comments on Facebook’s Privacy Policy by September 2nd

Do you use Classmates.com or have you in the past? If so, you might like to hear about this interesting bit of news. The company is being hit with a class action lawsuit for privacy violations. The settlement is for anyone residing in the United States who were registered with or subscribed to www.classmates.com at ...

Read More: Classmates.com Hit with Class Action Lawsuit for Privacy Violations

Facebook just announced on its blog that it is rolling out a litany of privacy-related updates that streamline its various interfaces, simplify privacy control, and add more power in the hands of users.Facebook has always had a feature similar in function to Google+’s Circles but it has so far been underemphasized and complicated to use. It is now being moved to the forefront, with the lock button under the sharing widget getting a more verbose and prominent look. The button will now spell out e [...]

Read More: Facebook’s updated privacy controls take it beyond Google+’s Circles

Facebook made a big announcement today, which includes more than a dozen privacy and tagging changes. They want to "make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want". This follows their recent news regarding new mobile security features. Since the company has been told by users that ...

Read More: Facebook Makes More Than a Dozen Privacy & Tagging Changes