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Social Networks and Privacy: Learning From Facebook’s Mistakes

Observers of Internet trends often pronounce that privacy is a fiction and that it is futile to try to reclaim it. Whether that perspective is correct or not does not matter when faced with a Complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Facebook Complaint and Consent Order recently issued by the FTC provides valuable lessons for how to stay out of the FTC’s crosshairs. Internet attorneys, businesses, consultants and advisors should study what the FTC views as deceptive in order to make necessary adjustments to business plans and operations. In the U.S., there is no federal law that requires a website to have a privacy policy. However, California requires any website that collects personally identifiable information from California residents to have a privacy policy

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Social Networks and Privacy: Learning From Facebook’s Mistakes

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Zynga’s IPO as popular as its games

Zynga Inc. is raising more than virtual livestock these days, having pulled in $1 billion (

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"Sexy" scams attract men on Facebook

According to a recent survey, men are more likely than women to be scammed on Facebook, especially if the predator is a sexy female. The study – commissioned by anti-virus software company Bitdefender – surveyed a group of 1,649 men and women with adequate online security knowledge in the US and UK. The study found 64.2 per cent of women rejected unknown Facebook friend requests compared to 55.4 per cent of men. Men were even more likely to hit the ‘confirm’ button if there was an attractive female profile picture. On the flip side, women showed no noticeable difference when presented with a fetching photo of their target sex. Furthermore, about 24.5 per cent of men allow their profiles to be searchable by strangers, compared to just 16 per cent of women. Culturally speaking, the man/woman disparity is not completely surprising. Bitdefender’s social media security manager George Petre explained that women’s reservation in accepting offers of strangers predated not just Facebook and social networking, but the Internet as well

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"Sexy" scams attract men on Facebook