Facebook users: trading privacy for friends?
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Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private?
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Breaking up with Facebook is (less) hard to do It was a long time coming but the web's favourite has-been-in-the-making, Facebook, has finally agreed to let users who are bored with it wrest their personal information from its advertising salesmens' clutches.â¦
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Facebook's application platform could be the next battleground in the privacy wars. Will Facebook fold and finally respect user privacy?
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A free web browser that promises users total  privacy whilst surfing on the web has been released.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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MySpace has an impressive lead today, but things can change quickly in the fluid world of mass-market social networking sites. Just ask Friendster.
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press; Staff writer Joe Killian contributed to this report.  NEW YORK __ The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages.
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Facebook last week started quietly rolling out "Social Ads" -- advertisements featuring the names and profile photos of your friends. Critics say that users aren't adequately notified that their photos may appear in these ads.
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As DIY media reach ever deeper into our lives, more and more of us experience the phenomenon of being extremely well known not to millions but to a small group. If you have a Facebook account or post images on Flickr complete strangers likely know about you -- and maybe even talk about you. Even microcelebrities have to watch out for the cellphone paparazzi at parties.
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For business or pleasure? Reg Technology Panel Over the past two or three years, zanily named social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter seem to have come from nowhere to wheedle their way into just about every aspect of online life, both in business and pleasure. Such facilities share a handful of simple, but powerful core features: each will enable information sharing of some form, will have some kind of community orientation and will be constructed in a way that several of the blighters can be merged (or should I say, âmashed upâ) into clever, multifaceted concoctions of collaborative capability.â¦
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By Steve Lawson  HOW paranoid are you about leaving a trail of evidence every time you surf the net?  If the answer is 'very' then news of a new privacy tool will have you reaching for the download button. But hang on a minute.
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The real privacy issues are being raised by Google, Yahoo, AOL and others, which are tracking users in order to show them advertising targeted to their interests.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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Fast-growing U.S. social network Web   site Facebook said on Friday it has adopted new privacy   controls following an unprecedented online backlash over a new   feature that let users track their friends online.
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Social network makes it a snap Facebook users who like to control who gets to see your account details, take note: political views, religious back ground and other sensitive details may be wide open to prying eyes even though you've configured your profile so its viewable only to designated friends.â¦
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The company's new software might let private information go public. Also: A new website pays you to help your friends buy products  & hellip;. LAN operators start to gear up  & hellip;. and more.