Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again

Title: Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again

Author: Nick Bilton

Date: December 12

URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/facebook-changes-privacy-settings-again/?ref=technology

Summary: Facebook is adding a new feature that will give users the ability to block the information they put on their site. It is also giving users the ability to block others; however, it's taking away users ability to hide themselves while they are online.

Relevance: Privacy is always been an issue with Facebook and with the internet as a whole. As technology gets better privacy will become an even bigger issue.

Quote: "The company is eliminating the ability for people to hide themselves on Facebook's search, a control, that until now, has existed in the in the privacy settings on the company's Web site."

comparison #5

Article 1: Austrian Group Plans Court Challenge to Facebook's Privacy Policies
Author: Kevin J. O'Brien
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/technology/austrian-group-plans-court-challenge-to-facebooks-privacy-policies.html?ref=technology&_r=0

Article 2: Student group to go to court over Facebook Privacy Policy
Author: Reuters
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/12/04/student-group-to-go-to-court-over-facebook-privacy-policy/

Article 3: Student group take Facebook privacy gripes to court
Author:
Date: December 4th
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/student-group-plans-sue-facebook-ireland-071853454--sector.html

Articles 1,2 and 3 are both reported on the same day.
Article 2, reported by Foxbusiness is the shortest story on here.
Article 1 goes into how Facebook is collecting and retaining data as well as using facial recognition to to tie in whose data it is.
Article 3 explains how Facebook takes several months to give people the data facebook has collected on them
Article 3 goes on to state that the group believes this will be a landmark case for the data protection law

Article Review# 4

Title: "Zynga Executive Defects to Facebook"

Author: The Associated Press

Date: November, 13

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/11/13/technology/ap-us-tec-zynga-cfo.html?ref=technology

Article Summary: Zynga, a company known for it's mobile games from off Facebook, are having trouble keeping it's executives. Recent concerns about if the company can make profits off of selling mobile games, are worrying executives so much so that some are jumping ship early. Due to recent stock prices decreasing more executives have left, some as early as a year and a half.

Relevance to Class: With many leaving Zynga, that leaves the doors open for those willing to try their hands at mobile games. With new people, there will be better ideas on how they could balance content with greater profits by having a more structured plan of how these games impact their users and thus their profits.

Quote: "The appointments seeks to fill some of the holes left by executives who've left Zynga in recent months. John Schappert, Zynga's chief operating officer, left in August after less than a year and a half on the job. Schappert's exit was followed by that of Mike Verdu, the company's chief creative officer."

Article Review #3

Title: "Photo-sharing app expands to the web"

Author: Barbara Ortutay

Date: November 5th

Link to Original Article: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2019611279_apustecinstagramweb.html

Summary: The photo-sharing app, Instagram, is expanding beyond mobile phones. On Monday, Facebook made the announcement this announcement in a blog post. Instagram will now have a website to go along with their profile photo, bio and a few snapshots that have been recently shared on Instagram. 

Relevancy: With Facebook expanding it's photo sharing app on the web, those who design the sites will have to figure out a way for the app and site to seamlessly blend without any structural hiccups between the two. 

Quote: " Facebook has insisted since it bought Instagram this year that it will keep it running as a separate service. That still appears to be the case. The Instagram web pages don't link to Facebook and don't ask users to log in using their facebook accounts."