Law & Security

I haven't done any research yet to verify this content. I have seen a few other 'Facebook legal documents' before, some real, some fake.

http://www.dave.ca/2012/04/10/if-the-police-subpoena-facebook-for-your-records-what-do-they-get/

Interesting article on the information stored by Facebook. Mentions the Europe v Facebook case.

Your Facebook Data File: Everything You Never Wanted Anyone to Know

ZDnet, Emil Protalinski.

Facebook does some interesting pattern analyzing to fight spam. To do this, it seems to track ALL click patterns...

ZDnet, Emil Protalinski. Facebook Immune System checks 25 billion actions every day

This week's news includes a lot of articles regarding the dangers of technology: Facebook, iPhone and Android software are very active in stealing information from users.

Check out some of the articles, as well as a few research links I had stored for my own research purposes:

- NetworkWorld: US military wants to protect social media privacy
(US military concearns about social media are not new: Pentagon Orders Review of Social Networking

- InSecurity Complex: Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate Bay

- BBC: Facebook data harvester speaks out

- The Official Lookout Blog: Introducing the App Genome Project (about the many iPhone and Android application stealing and using personal data)

Some research about social media issues:
- Debatin e.a. (2009): "Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences"

- Fogel, Nehmad (2009), "Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns"

- E. Ur, Ganapathy (2009): "Evaluating Attack Amplification in Online Social Networks"

Almost as shocking as fake-eggs (which might actually be more of a hoax, check out the Counterfeit Industry pages) and this one is definitely real: a "fake Dinseyland". A Chinese state-sponsored themepark with copycat Japanese & American characters - none of which are licensed.

Check out the following video on YouTube (originally broadcasted on Japanese TV, translation has been added):