Efforts by Congress to block employers from requiring employees or potential employees to surrender their passwords for Facebook and other social networks hit a stumbling block Wednesday, when a Facebook user protection amendment submitted by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) did not pass the House of Representatives.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission used a live Facebook chat as part of the government’s roll-out of a new privacy framework.
Two Democratic Senators, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Charles Schumer of New York, have asked the U.S. Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate whether U.S. law already prohibits employers to force job applicants to surrender their Facebook passwords.
Facebook is mounting a strong resistance against the trend of employers and others forcing users of the social networks to surrender their passwords, and the company has found an ally in U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat.
Privacy continues to be a touchy issue for Facebook, as some minor changes the company made to the language in the terms of service — including changing the title from privacy policy to data use policy –are drawing scrutiny from regulators and analysts.
Facebook found itself on the receiving end of yet another privacy lawsuit, but this time there are 17 other defendants, and it’s a class action involving mobile applications.
Facebook has some new hired help to handle lobbying on issues related to privacy.
Women and young adults are outpacing other demographics in unfriending on Facebook.
Like Ethan Hunt in “Mission Impossible,” you, too, can have your Facebook wall messages self-destruct in mere moments thanks to a new social privacy application from BigString Corp.
The Family Online Safety Institute, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to online safety that counts Facebook among its members, announced an initiative aimed at allowing parents, teachers, teens, and kids to team up and focus on online safety.
