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Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Here's the text of a message I sent out to all my Facebook contacts today: If I go to the "contacts" page on Facebook's cut-down mobile version, it displays every single contact's email address, whether or not you had set this information as public.
[January 12, 2008, 12:58]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Comment Quickly, export your facebook contacts with email addresses while you can (export facebook contacts).
[January 14, 2008, 7:58]
My FB Contacts
Downloads My FB Contacts is a free and easy way to export and backup the contact details of your friends on Facebook. By default, Facebook inhibits the export of our friends e-mail addresses. Facebook ensures that you don't use other communication methods by...
[January 10, 2008, 9:31]
Facebook Is Just Protecting Its Users
Talkback Plaxo acuses Facebook of doing the same thing, but lets look at the differences; when Facebook scrapes your google contacts, it takes the email addresses for the purpose of inviting your contacts to joint facebook, should the person decline, thats...
[January 4, 2008, 22:21]
Police Force's Facebook App Raises Privacy Concerns
News According to Facebook's "platform application terms of use", when a user adds an application, that application gets access to a long list of different types of "Facebook site information", which could include political views, relationship...
[April 21, 2008, 15:13]
Fosimo
Downloads Synchronize Facebook friends with matching outlook contacts - for windows mobile devices owners - you should be able to see your contacts photos on your phone display Upload photos without surfing through Facebook.Be notified: Be updated instantly...
[July 4, 2008, 11:01]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog That "contacts" button (option 4 on the bottom menu on the Facebook mobile home page) had vanished! Earlier today I posted about my discovery that users of Facebook's mobile version could see all of their friends' email addresses that had been used...
[January 12, 2008, 18:21]
Facebook Locks Out Plaxo
News Facebook closed down Robert Scoble's account when it found he had used an alpha version of a "screen scraper" utility from Plaxo, to gather his 5,000 contacts' personal data, including email addresses and birthdays, for export to his Outlook and...
[January 4, 2008, 13:03]
Facebook Admits To Increased Attacks By Spammers
News Asked about a privacy and security flaw that had been identified in Facebook's mobile variant last year — in which the user's contacts had their email addresses listed, regardless of whether those contacts had opted into revealing such details...
[April 22, 2008, 17:10]
Should We Have A Licence For Our Identities?
Blog Comment Harpless.steal Facebook users'? Incidentally, I will happily predict, here and now, that FACEBOOK will be relegated to the 'information landfill' of tomorrow by the emergence of a far more superior model in the not too distant future.
[January 8, 2008, 1:55]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Comment If you look at my subsequent post and its comments, you will see that Facebook reacted to this post very quickly, first removing the "contacts" feature then bringing it back, but without showing the email addresses.
[January 14, 2008, 8:09]
Facebook For BlackBerry
Downloads All of your Facebook contacts. Hooked on Facebook? Now you can take Facebook with you on your BlackBerry smartphone wherever you go and stayed logged in as long as you want. With Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, you have wireless access to...
[February 27, 2008, 1:37]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog Comment So, bravo Facebook. And true to form, the "contacts" function has now been reinstated, but without showing email addresses (it's now a bit like the "all friends" function). Privacy is restored.
[January 12, 2008, 23:31]
Dashwire
Downloads It also enables users to manage phone settings from the computer.Version 2.0 offers mobile access to photos & videos stored in the Dashwire cloud, media editing, blogging & and sharing, and direct status updates to Facebook & Twitter.
[June 25, 2008, 9:01]
Google Previews Friend Connect
News Programme manager Mussie Shore gave the central demonstration, sprucing up a guacamole lovers' site with the ability to let users join as members, comment, post photos, rate recipes and spread word of those activities to contacts on existing...
[May 13, 2008, 16:53]
The Genome For The True Social Web?
Blog MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook may have opened our eyes to the possibilities of social networking, but I have always been convinced that the REAL value for web users will come through smaller, more focused social networks appealing to specific...
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
Yahoo Opens Up Address-book Interface
News A lot of action — some complementary but much of it competitive — is also taking place at rivals such as Facebook, Google and any number of small Web 2.0 start-ups. A site with a gift registry could piggyback on the address book so that a person...
[June 5, 2008, 8:32]
VR+: Voice Recorder
Downloads Make and sort your collection, share it with friends through popular social networks like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and Blogger.com.Version 2.4.5 adds enhanced menu settings. With VR+ BlackBerry Pearl/Curve/88xx/Bold owners can record any length...
[July 1, 2008, 19:31]
Gmail Cookie Vulnerability Exposes User's Privacy
News The current reality is that there are Gen-Y workers who are sharing information with each other on multiple alternative communication channels — Gmail and Facebook included. Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of...
[September 27, 2007, 8:12]
Google And Facebook Join Data-sharing Alliance
News Last week, popular blogger Robert Scoble — himself a DataPortability member — was banned from Facebook for using an automated script, from rival site Plaxo, to export his contacts' emails and other personal data from Facebook to Plaxo.
[January 9, 2008, 15:21]
