Social-Networking
Social networking sites – what have I learnt?
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 [...]
Facestalking defined
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 [...]
Social networking privacy – forgetting your password and closing your account
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 [...]
Social networking privacy – inviting your friends to sign up
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 [...]
Social networking privacy – where are your details stored?
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 [...]
