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There are billions of photographs on Facebook’s servers. As your Facebook friends upload their albums, Facebook will try to determine if any of the pictures look like you. And if they find what they believe to be a match, they may well urge one of your Facebook friends to tag it with your name.

The tagging is still done by your friends, not by Facebook, but rather creepily Facebook is now pushing your friends to go ahead and tag you.

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Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled
Color’s business model is pretty unappealing to me but this explains at least part of Bill Nguyen’s statement that Color is a datamining company.

Color’s business model is pretty unappealing to me but this explains at least part of Bill Nguyen’s statement that Color is a datamining company.

Is there a logical explanation for this? Why can I see who is being BCC’d?

Is there a logical explanation for this? Why can I see who is being BCC’d?

Facebook is like a cab driver.

dwineman:

Every time Facebook takes a giant dump on its users’ privacy, people are surprised. How can Facebook care so little about privacy? It’s not like they’re new at this, and besides, we’re the users. We’re the whole reason they’re in business in the first place. Our privacy should be their chief concern. Right?

Everyone loves a nice speedy cab ride. You even tip the driver more if he gets you there promptly. Yeah, he cuts those corners a little sharp and leans on the horn a lot. But he’s a licensed professional, and besides, you’re the passenger. You’re the whole reason he’s in business in the first place. Your safety should be his chief concern. Right?

But the reason the cab driver goes fast isn’t that he’s in a hurry to get to your destination. He’s in a hurry to get to his next fare.

“The result is that lots of geeks are considering leaving Facebook, and perhaps even more interestingly, veritable droves of Google software engineers are among them. This includes Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google (see below) who has not technically left, but has deactivated his Facebook account.”
Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves
peterfeld: A quick Facebook privacy cleanse (not that this will solve everything): 1. Go to this page, uncheck “allow” at the bottom (Instant Personalization) which also requires you click “confirm” on the pop-up that tries to talk you out of it. 2. Go to Yelp’s Facebook application page, click “block application.” 3. Go to Pandora’s Facebook application page, click “block application.” 4. Go to Microsoft Docs.com’s Facebook application page, click “block application.”

peterfeld:

A quick Facebook privacy cleanse (not that this will solve everything):

1. Go to this page, uncheck “allow” at the bottom (Instant Personalization) which also requires you click “confirm” on the pop-up that tries to talk you out of it.

2. Go to Yelp’s Facebook application page, click “block application.”

3. Go to Pandora’s Facebook application page, click “block application.”

4. Go to Microsoft Docs.com’s Facebook application page, click “block application.”

Official Google Blog: Serious threat to the web in Italy

In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that’s where our involvement would normally end.

But in this instance, a public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees —David Drummond, Arvind Desikan, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes (who left the company in 2008). The charges brought against them were criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video’s existence until after it was removed.

Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.