21st Century Learning and Teaching

Facebook is going to allow you to blur your face in photos... once it's identified you.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/

If you're using Facebook, you're giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.

Mwah ha ha. People can't hide from you on Facebook any more (unless they block you).

A discovery about Facebook's official Android app once again puts into question if the social network's developers truly *get* security and privacy.

As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge:

A Facebook security bug exposed users’ personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts...

A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <===

Drop-dead simple advice on keeping intruders' hands off your account, spotting phishing attempts and more.

To do that, it's added a new security collection called How to Keep Your Account Secure to the Privacy Basics page.

The topics cover setting a strong password, spotting attempts to steal passwords and other info, details on how Facebook handles government requests for information, and advice on what to do if your account gets hijacked.

Le coup de colère du fondateur du premier réseau social mondial en ligne illustre les tensions croissantes entre le secteur technologique et le gouvernement après une série de révélations sur de vastes programmes de surveillance.

Le président-directeur général du réseau social Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a averti jeudi 13 mars que le gouvernement états-unien minait la confiance en Internet et n'en faisait pas assez pour rassurer le public sur la liberté et la sécurité en ligne.

A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.

The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity.

===> This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers -- who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior. <===

About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency, either a curious career move or one that makes complete sense...