Cody Taylor

LegionKK writes “”Ultimately, deciding whether you should take an online quiz comes down to a question of trust: Are you comfortable putting your information — personal or financial — into the owner’s hands? Remember, even if you don’t directly input data, it can be passed along. Such is the case with Facebook, where just opening an application automatically grants its developer access to your entire profile. And don’t assume that the developer isn’t going to use the information within. […] The ads can follow you long after you click away, too. Just look at RealAge, a detailed quiz that assigns you a “biological age” based on your family history and health habits. The site, a recent investigation revealed, takes your most sensitive answers — those about sexual difficulties, say, or signs of depression — and sells them to drug companies looking to market medications.””

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Facebook has confirmed my earlier suspicion that it has disabled two of the five Holocaust denial groups whose presence has caused much controversy over the past week, following attorney Brian Cuban’s consistent pressure for the groups’ removal.

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

Part of the power of social networking is the ability to form communities with like-minded individuals. But what happens when those communities are offensive to others? That issue is at the heart of attempts by a Dallas, Texas, attorney to have social-networking site Facebook remove pages for Holocaust deniers.

Today we’re rolling out the long-awaited release of Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows Facebook’s 200+ million members to login and start Digging and commenting right away.-Kevin

Both Firefox and Facebook are probably working very hard to figure out new models of generating advertising revenues – something both are dependent on but neither can take for granted.

An innocent-looking IQ test on Facebook is really a test of your privacy savvy. And ability to read tiny, tiny print.

Mike writes “Law prof Eugene Volokh blogs about a US House of Representatives bill proposed by Rep. Linda T. Sanchez and 14 others that could make it a federal felony to use your blog, social media like MySpace and Facebook, or any other Web media ‘to cause substantial emotional distress through “severe, repeated, and hostile” speech.’ Rep. Sanchez and colleagues want to make it easier to prosecute any objectionable speech through a breathtakingly broad bill that would criminalize a wide range of speech protected by the First Amendment. The bill is called The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, and if passed into law (and if it survives constitutional challenge) it looks almost certain to be misused.”

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To make Facebook advertiser-friendly, its ‘porn cops’ delete risqué content and enforce decorum.

The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online and blocks millions of web sites including Facebook and Youtube until recently. Now a small software allows Iranians to surf the the uncensored Web. Despite the dangers the Iranians are eagerly grabbing this offering.