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Facebook ordered to increase privacy by Irish regulators

Facebook has received a full audit of its systems by Irish regulators and agreed to make more than a dozen privacy improvements within the next six months. The recommendations made by Irish Data Commissioner Billy Hawkes came after an investigation concerning the social network’s use of personal user data launched in October. Facebook houses all its user data and operations outside of the US and Canada in Ireland. Two months ago, regulators launched the investigation after a series of controversies surrounding Facebook user data surfaced, with claims of ‘shadow profiles’ being created for non-members. The regulators found this was not the case, and that Facebook only collects data about non-users for security purposes.

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Kodak Gallery app makes for snap-happy users

Snap-happy users can now create their own temporary social networks to share photos. The newly launched Kodak Gallery app allows users to create ad-hoc networks to share their photos with others. “It’s the temporary social network that we’re trying to solve for,” said Mark Cook, vice president of products at Kodak Gallery. For example, when parents want to share photos of their child’s school play they can create a network on the spot to share with the other parents also snapping photos. Users can send invitations to let others join specific networks, giving them an opportunity to upload their photos as well. And, they won’t have access to other albums or networks without permission – offering a user a new method for sharing photos with acquaintances without adding them to their social network permanently. Kodak Gallery hopes this will help address the growing issue of people oversharing information on social network sites. Photos can be manually added to the network via the Internet, and Kodak Gallery users can set up as many networks as they like free of charge. Currently the app is only available to iPhone users, but an Android version is coming soon.

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Kodak Gallery app makes for snap-happy users