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Safety - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:56:29 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook: 9,000-10,000 Requests For User Data From U.S. Local, State, Federal Governments In Six Months Ending Dec. 31

For the six months ending Dec. 31, 2012, Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from U.S. government entities at all levels, local and national, related to between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, outgoing Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot revealed in a release on Facebook’s Newsroom.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/requests-for-user-data_b120040#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/requests-for-user-data_b120040 http://allfacebook.com/?p=120040 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:48:16 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg Continues To Deny Involvement In Prism; Facebook, Google Ask Attorney General To Allow Them To Disclose Number Of Secret Data Requests

Facebook continued to take steps to deny any involvement in the National Security Agency’s Prism initiative, in which the government agency allegedly obtained direct access to its servers, with Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterating his denial of last Friday during his talk at the social network’s annual meeting Tuesday, and the company asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to allow it to fully disclose the total number of secret requests it receives to surrender user data.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-prism-facebook-google-fisa_b119710#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-prism-facebook-google-fisa_b119710 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119710 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:14:21 +0000 McAfee Retracts Reports About Facebook Virus Koobface Earlier this month, antivirus company McAfee claimed that reports of the Koobface virus — which hijacks Facebook accounts and, in many cases, deletes them — were on the rise. McAfee did an about-face, saying that the high counts of Koobface were erroneous.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-retracts-reports-about-facebook-virus-koobface_b119606#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-retracts-reports-about-facebook-virus-koobface_b119606 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119606 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:32:28 +0000 Facebook Restores Access To Tumblr Page Obama Is Checking Your Email, Blames Automated Response

With the uproar over the National Security Agency’s Prism initiative, in which the NSA allegedly obtained direct access to the servers of Internet companies including Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, PalTalk, Skype, and AOL, those companies are likely facing heightened scrutiny, despite firm denials by Facebook and by its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, of any knowledge of or participation in Prism. A few eyebrows were likely raised over the weekend, when access to Tumblr page Obama Is Checking Your Email was being blocked by the social network, but the situation has been rectified.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/obama-is-checking-your-email_b119549#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/obama-is-checking-your-email_b119549 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119549 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:12:53 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg: ‘We Hadn’t Even Heard Of Prism’ Before Thursday

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded Friday to claims that the site had granted the U.S. government access to its servers. He called the reports “outrageous,” and noted that if Facebook were to ever receive such a request, the company would fight it.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/zuckerberg-prism-response_b119500#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/zuckerberg-prism-response_b119500 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119500 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:11:17 +0000 Facebook Offers Best Practices For Mobile Developers To Thwart Security Threats

Facebook participated in the Federal Trade Commission’s Public Forum on Threats to Mobile Devices earlier this week, and it shared some of the best practices agreed upon at the forum in a note on the Facebook Security page.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/best-practices-mobile-developers-security-threats_b119312#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/best-practices-mobile-developers-security-threats_b119312 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119312 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:15:22 +0000 Facebook Asks Mobile Users To Verify Phone Numbers For Security Facebook recently began asking desktop users to add their phone numbers to verify their accounts and make them more secure. Now it seems that the social network is doing the same on mobile. Some Facebook mobile users have seen prompts in their mobile applications to input their phone numbers, “to help secure your account and more.”

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-mobile-users-phone-number_b119264#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-mobile-users-phone-number_b119264 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119264 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:15:45 +0000 Facebook Offers Tips For This Year’s Graduates

Graduation season is upon us, and with that in mind, Facebook offered a few tips on how graduates can use some of its features, including activity log, Graph Search, and messaging via desktop or its Facebook Messenger mobile applications.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/tips-for-graduates_b119222#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/tips-for-graduates_b119222 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119222 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:18:57 +0000 STUDY: Kids Try To Access Social Networks Nearly Twice As Much As Porn Sites

Nearly twice as many attempts by kids to circumvent the parental controls of users of Kaspersky Lab’s products were aimed at Facebook and other social networks in May than at pornography sites, the Internet security firm reported.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/kaspersky-lab-study-kids-parental-control_b119208#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/kaspersky-lab-study-kids-parental-control_b119208 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119208 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:10:16 +0000 MyPermissions Trust Certification Aimed At Building Trust Between App Developers, Users

Application security provider MyPermissions announced the launch of a privacy certification program for app developers, the MyPermissions Trust Certification, which it said is aimed at standardizing the policies and usage of personal information between developers and end-users.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mypermissions-trust-certification_b119201#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mypermissions-trust-certification_b119201 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119201 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:33:44 +0000 STUDY: Parents Have No Clue What Their Kids Are Doing On Facebook, Other Social Networks

Parents may think they know what their teenagers are doing online, but according to a study released Tuesday by McAfee, they are sorely mistaken.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-2013-digital-deception_b119075#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-2013-digital-deception_b119075 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119075 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:41:24 +0000 McAfee: Koobface Facebook Virus Is On The Rise

Facebook is trying to educate users more about scams that seep through its News Feed, but according to antivirus firm McAfee, there has been an increase in the first quarter in reports of Koobface, a virus that hijacks Facebook accounts.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-koobface-facebook-virus-is-on-the-rise_b118949#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-koobface-facebook-virus-is-on-the-rise_b118949 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118949 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:59:43 +0000 STUDY: Facebook’s Mutual Friends Feature Presents Security Concerns, Privacy Risks

How safe is Facebook’s mutual friends feature? Not very, according to a recent study at the University of Pittsburgh.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mutual-friends-study_b118610#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mutual-friends-study_b118610 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118610 Thu, 30 May 2013 10:54:19 +0000 Facebook Responds To Ad Boycott, Vows To Work Harder To Prevent Hate Speech

Facebook has come under fire recently, as several advertisers pulled their campaigns in light of pages promoting hate speech against women on the site. The company responded to this criticism Tuesday, saying that Facebook will start working harder to prevent those kinds of posts and pages from coming to light. Facebook will work with legal experts, as well as women’s rights groups, to better train the teams that deal with feedback on these issues, and it will open up the lines of communication with groups that have faced discrimination.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-ad-boycott-hate-speech_b118452#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-ad-boycott-hate-speech_b118452 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118452 Tue, 28 May 2013 19:22:21 +0000 Idcloak Technologies’ IP Port Proxies Enable Full Facebook Access In Countries Where It Is Blocked

With Facebook periodically finding itself blocked in various countries and regions, Idcloak Technologies aims to provide Facebook users with a way around those measures, releasing a list of Internet-protocol port proxies that it claims will eliminate the compatibility issues often encountered when users attempt to access blocked sites via traditional proxy sites.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/idcloak-technologies_b118385#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/idcloak-technologies_b118385 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118385 Tue, 28 May 2013 12:28:33 +0000