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It’s become a Pangloss tradition at the start of the new academic yesr to find a new video i can use to scare the students. THis year’s conveniently just arrived courtesy of @niccuzor — thanks Nic! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I&w=560&h=315]

The Register reports

“Facebook has ordered its 350 million users to sort out their privacy settings right now, before it throws the switch on its revamped security system.

My esteemed colleague Ian Brown of the OII has been off presenting our joint research on privacy and saocial networking sites at the IGF in Egypt (lucky dog!)

The updated powerpoint can be found here.

Ok back to business as usual..

Pangloss is always pleased to see things she’s been lecturing about for a year turn into reality, and here comes one again. Facebook have decided to formalise the procedures they already, to some extent had, for “memorialising” the profiles of users who have…

“A Look at the Facebook Privacy Class Action (Beacon) Settlement

(via Ian Brown)

In a remarkable turn of events, Facebook has agreed to add significant new privacy safeguards and make other changes in response to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s recent investigation into the popular social networking site’s…

Thomas Crampton, an Asia-based journalist and blogger, has posted a video he made after I gave a paper in Hong Kong in June 2009 at Peter Yu’s Digital Converges Conference, on succession to digital assets , including social network profiles and emails etc, here. 

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According to this article in the FT, the Art 29 Working party on Data Protection has produced an unpublished opinion which, if I read it correctly, seems to suggest that they way FB shares data with, and encourages its users to share data with, unknown and unpoliced third party “apps”…

Interesting times (as ever) in the social networking sites/personal branding crossover world. One of the most interesting papers from Digital Convergence HK was by Lisa P. Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law on “brandjacking”, on social networks — the increasing…

Facebook reaches 200 million members

Interesting graphics from the New York Times on the rise and rise of Facebook: which has…