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Facebook Expands Custom Audiences With Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, BlueKai

David Cohen — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:59:36 +0000

A report last week that Facebook was testing a new type of targeted advertising, along with several third-party partners, which would allow brands to market to users based on items they have previously expressed interest in while surfing the Web was confirmed Wednesday with the social network’s announcement on its Facebook Studio blog of the expansion of its custom audiences offering with data-centric partners Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai.

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MyPermissions Wants Facebook Users To Start 2013 Safely With Cleaner, Android App

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:03:46 +0000

When you connect with a Facebook application, how often do you pay attention to the fine print of what information the app wants from your profile? MyPermissions has launched a tool that allows users to see what the app wants from your profile, and also lets users delete apps straight from the MyPermissions Cleaner. It wants Facebook users to get a clean and safe start to 2013, also introducing a mobile app.

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Facebook Conducting Customer-Satisfaction Survey

David Cohen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:33:44 +0000

A Facebook customer-satisfaction survey appears to be making the rounds, but this one sticks to the user experience, and doesn’t detour into politics, like a similar effort that was released in error last month.

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Facebook Scraps Tag Suggest Facial-Recognition Feature In EU, Gets Thumbs Up From Ireland DPC

David Cohen — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:39:56 +0000

Irish eyes (and those of the rest of the European Union) are finally smiling on Facebook, as Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner announced that “the great majority” of the privacy recommendations it made to the social network to keep it in compliance with those of the EU have been “fully implemented to the satisfaction of this office.” The major concession by Facebook: Its tag suggest feature, which enabled facial recognition for Facebook photos, has been turned off for all new users in the EU, with existing users to lose access to the feature by Oct. 15.

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Secure.me’s App Advisor Grades The Safety Of Facebook Applications

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:05:56 +0000

Not all Facebook applications are created equal. Secure.me, which is akin to virus protection for pages, recently launched the App Advisor — a report card for more than 500,000 apps on the Facebook platform. On Wednesday, the site will introduce a browser plug-n that rates the trustworthiness of an app (or a site that integrates Facebook), based on what kind of personal data it requires.

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Germany Issues Privacy Ultimatum To Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:03:51 +0000

Not long after Germany reopened its investigation into Facebook’s facial-recognition technology, a German consumer group sent the social network a cease-and-desist letter. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations is ordering Facebook to quit giving third-party applications users’ data without their consent. If the social network doesn’t do this by Sept. 4, the Germans plan to sue.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Sneaky Facebook Apps That Collect Personal Information

David Cohen — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:30:24 +0000

Concerns about personal information collected by Facebook applications still linger despite efforts by the social network and developers to educate users on what data they collect and how they use it, and a new infographic from BackgroundCheck.org lists some surprising names among its worst offenders.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Younger U.K. Facebook Users Have More Trust When It Comes To Data

David Cohen — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:30:18 +0000

Facebook was seen as the source of personal data that reveal the most about a person, with 26 percent of respondents to a survey of more than 2,000 U.K. consumers citing the social network.

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MIT Wonders What Facebook Can Do With Personal Data

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:31:04 +0000

We all know that Facebook has massive amounts of users’ personal data. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review recently delved into the issue of what Facebook can do with all of that information, in a post by writer Tom Simonite that deftly explores the fascinating yet largely unknown world of Facebook’s in-house and bookish social science arm. Will Facebook use it for good or evil?

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Study: 44 Percent ‘Never’ Click On Facebook Ads, Sponsored Stories

David Cohen — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:51:04 +0000

Maybe General Motors got an advance copy of new research from digital marketing agency Greenlight, which found that 44 percent of respondents to its survey would “never” click on Facebook ads or sponsored stories.

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Facebook Critic Is Unable To Archive His Personal Data — Coincidence?

David Cohen — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:41:00 +0000

A Facebook user who happens to be a “very vocal” critic of the social network has been unsuccessfully attempting to retrieve his personal data via the Facebook archive download tool for weeks. Coincidence?

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European Commission Targets Facebook’s Targeted Ads

David Cohen — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:46:22 +0000

Facebook is facing more regulatory fire in Europe over how the company collects and uses members’ personal information.

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Marketers, Help Facebook Users Manage Online Identity

David Cohen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:47:56 +0000

Marketers, the new buzz phrase for you is personal identity management. That’s how you’re going to get information from customers over Facebook.

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