I really hope that you’ve enjoyed my previous posts looking at the small print of social networking sites’ T&Cs and privacy policies:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues - signing up
Social networking privacy - where are your details stored?
Social networking sites - inviting your friends to sign up
Social networking privacy - forgetting your […]

The new term facestalking is now being used to define individuals who use Facebook to continually and consistently keep an eye on a specific person(s).

Suzanne Sng wrote quite a funny article on facestalking and its popular use in monitoring the ex- girlfriend or boyfriend.

I appreciate that a number of these services provide a user management […]

This post follows on from some previous social networking articles that form a small project looking at data security and the small print of social networking websites.
I’ve forgotten my password
During my investigation of these sites, I found that if you forget your password, two of the eight sites will send it in an email to […]

This post on social networking sites’ data privacy follows on from three previous articles:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues - signing up
Social networking privacy - where are your details stored?

Let’s say for argument’s sake that you think that all this privacy stuff is fair and you sign up for some of these […]

This post follows on from two previous social networking posts:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues - signing up

Interestingly, out of the eight sites that I looked at, six process and store data in the US, where data protection laws are notoriously lax compared to the UK. For a start, the Privacy […]