nathan hammond

Give me a second to scoop Facebook on their own announcement for their newest updateprivacy mistake: the application and game dashboards. These two dashboards are part of the new redesign that Facebook is rolling out right now. If nothing has changed yet and you don't see these links in your normal interface you soon will. In ...

Well, I've got three volunteers for my privacy experiment: a friend of mine I see at least every other week and have known since high school, a person who I met through a friend that I've spent some time with, and a person I've never met who is from the UK. I'll be getting back in ...

From Facebook: UPDATE on Thursday, Dec. 10: In response to your feedback, we've improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while ...

<sarcasm> I have to say, one of my favorite new features of Facebook is their mandated publicly available information. This is a great way to help me build out my data-mining operation by augmenting my data with Facebook's social graph. As an added bonus, if I find a particularly interesting target I can simply look up ...

Yet another change on Facebook with regards to privacy and all I have are more grievances with the ever-so-gradual erosion of privacy within their network. The new policies surrounding what is and what isn't "publicly available information" make a mockery of the promised improvements to the privacy settings. What was previously public information by the election ...