PRIVACY

Some Android phones are believed to allow internet applications to access a user's information, such as their location or text messages. Who is at risk?

On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee joined the fight for user privacy on Facebook. Earlier last month, the Federal Trade Commission was urged by House members Ed Markey and Joe Barton to move forward with investigating the social media company for violating user privacy with browser cookies.

Facebook has become overwhelmingly confusing since the new design rolled out and you may be unknowingly sharing some unwanted information publically without being informed of the steps to protect your privacy online. In order to protect your account from people you'd rather keep private with, like your grandma (because you know she has a Facebook account, too) or third parties who access your information, you should take the following 5 steps to protect yourself on Facebook through privacy se...

Online social networking giant Facebook has recently introduced a lot of changes in the way that its Web site operates and interacts with users. All of us have noticed it. The changes have supposedly been made to allow the site to be more interesting and user-friendly. The question, however, is whether Facebook may have gone a step too far.