Networking Offline
July 28, 2011 by admin
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BY LIZZIE SIMON
On Tuesday, Marie Claire and Common Sense Media, a nonprofit advisory organization on Internet safety, hosted a panel titled: “Social Media: The Perils and the Possibilities of Living in a Digital World.”
“We have some very lively people coming,” said Marie Claire editor-in-chief and panel moderator Joanna Coles on the 44th floor of the Hearst building. (Barbara Walters came. “I’ll learn something,” she said. She isn’t on Facebook. “And I don’t tweet,” she added)
Chelsea Clinton, a member of Common Sense’s board, gave a brief address before …
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Facebook Privacy
July 28, 2011 by admin
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New corncerns over facial recognition technology
Tyler, TX —
Since its’ creation, Facebook has run into more than just a few privay problems. Millions of users have complained, and even taken the company to court for privacy violations.
Now a new concern is plaguing people using the social networking site. Facebook was using some form of facial-recognition technology to help users ‘tag’ photos of friends.
The problem is man people viewed it as a privacy violation, and others were just bothered by the reported flawed technology.
“Tag Suggestions” technology is designed to speed up the process of labelling friends in photos. Now new concerns about how the world’s largest social network handles privacy.
The technology scans newly uploaded photos, compares faces in those snapshots with previous pictures, then tries to match faces and suggest name tags.
The difficulty is that users must go in and disable the service if they do not want to show up as “Suggested Tags” in their friends’ photos.
Watch the video above to see a general gap between mother and daughter determine what is, and isn’t a breach of privacy.