Facebook Exposed Million's Of Us ..!! | ET | Facebook Loses Million User's..!!

Facebook Bug Exposed Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Of 6 Million Users

On Friday, Facebook admitted that a bug made the private contact information -- either email addresses or phone numbers -- of 6 million users accidentally accessible to Facebookers who downloaded their account histories onto their own computers. Compared to Facebook's over 1 billion total members, 6 million isn't much. But any security flaw has the potential to frighten people away from a website.

A bug allowed "some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them," Facebook wrotein a note on its security page. Using the network's "Download Your Information" tool, some Facebook members were inadvertently sent the phone numbers or email address of Facebook friends that were otherwise private. Facebook assured users that the bug was fixed within a day, and that there is no evidence that the information was used maliciously.

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  Facebook Losses Million User's

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Youth rapes girl, uploads video on Facebook | ET | Social media can help prevent crimes

Youth rapes girl, uploads video on Facebook

Youth raped girl uploads video on facebook

ALWAR: A youth allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Alwar and uploaded a video clipping of the act on Facebook.
An FIR was registered by the girl's father against Samir alias Lala on Tuesday after some relatives watched the video and told the victim's family members. 
According to the police Lala came in contact with the girl on Facebook nearly one-and-a-half years ago. 
"As per the FIR, Lala visited the girl when she was alone in her house and then raped her. The girl didn't report the matter as Lala had made a video clipping using his mobile phone," a police officer said. 

The officer said that the accused started blackmailing the girl using the video and threatened to make it public if she told anyone. 
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 Social media can help prevent crimes
NEW DELHI: Monitoring and use of social media can help prevent crimes and police will be "foolish" if they do not take advantage of it, a senior Delhi Police official said here. 

S N Srivastava, Special Commissioner of Delhi Police (Special Cell), said there is a "little scope" of increasing manpower in police but through proper training and use of technological advances this gap could be bridged. 

NSA Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets | ET | NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Keith Alexander, NSA Director, Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets, According To Expert

The National Security Agency isn't quite sure that it's doing enough when it comes totuning into people's digital lives. A profile of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in Wired magazine offers this frightening possibility: One day the organization may intercept online communications directly.

"In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger," wrote James Bamford for the magazine. It may seem like an exaggeration, but Bamford, author of about a half dozen books on the agency, should know better than anyone else.

Read the rest of Wired's profile of Alexander.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/keith-alexander_n_3436726.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

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NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Facebook reveals snooping details

WASHINGTON: Facebook revealed on Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal. 

The requests covered issues from child disappearances to petty crimes and terror threats and targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, the social networking site said, without revealing how often it complied with the requests. 

Facebook "aggressively" protects its users' data, the company's general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a statement. 

"We frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested. And we respond only as required by law," he added. 

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'Facebook doesn't excite teens anymore' And Here Is Why..!!

'Facebook doesn't excite teens anymore'

WASHINGTON: The interest of teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. 

The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm forFacebook is diminishing. The authors of the Pew report wrote how Facebook is now a "social burden" for teenaged users. 

"While Facebook is still deeply integrated in teens' everyday lives, it is sometimes seen as a utility and an obligation rather than an excitingnew platform that teens can claim as their own," huffingtonpost.com quoted one of the authors. 
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Facebook Revises Policy On Post-
Mastectomy Photos

In theory, Facebook has always allowed photos of mastectomy scars -- as long as they didn't involve full breasts, which would violate the site's anti-nudity policy. This week, the social network reiterated its stance but reworded the policy. The new language acknowledges the toll breast cancer takes on women and men and the role post-surgery photos can play in community and recovery.

The social network posted the following guideline under the "Warnings" tab in the "Manage Your Account" feature in Facebook's Help Center:

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Youngest Billionaires ..!! First Facebook Team In Top 10

               The Youngest Billionaires 

Dustin Moskovitz

No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 28
Net Worth: $3.8 billion

No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 28
Net Worth: $13.3 billion

No. 3: Albert von Thurn und Taxis
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

No. 4: Scott Duncan
Age: 30
Net Worth: $5.1 billion

No. 5: Eduardo Saverin
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2.2 billion

No. 6: Huiyan Yang
Age: 31
Net Worth: $5.7 billion

No. 7: Fahd Hariri
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.35 billion

No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

No. 9: Sean Parker
Age: 33
Net Worth: $2 billion

No. 10: Ayman Hariri
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.35 billion

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/03/04/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires-23-under-40/

Google Buys Waze \ET\ Google's Not-So-Evil Plan To Lower Your Cable Bill

Google Buys Waze: Social Mapping App Will 'Enhance' Google Maps

Google Ahead 

Waze finally has a buyer. that it had bought Waze, a social GPS mapping app that specializes in real-time crowd-sourced traffic.The price was not disclosed but a report on Monday in The New York Times put the number at more than $1 billion."We’re excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google’s search capabilities," Brian McClendon, Google's vice president of Geo, wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisition.Waze's product development team will stay in Israel, where the company, now based in Palo Alto, Calif., was founded.Wazers, as they're called, alert each other to accidents, road closures and other things that would potentially slow down traffic. According to The New York Times, Waze says it has 47 million global users.Waze is a free app that makes money from location-based advertising. Techcrunch reported in January that the company's 2012 revenue was less than $1 million.Both Apple and Facebook were reportedly interested in buying Waze. Google's purchase now keeps those rivals away from the app.

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Google's Not-So-Evil Plan To Lower Your Cable Bill

One of the more intriguing mysteries in the media/technology world is why Google GOOG -0.45% is building out broadband fiber data networks in a handful of American cities. Google says it’s just another attempt to create a profitable new business, but nobody seems to be buying that, judging from a panel discussion I watched at the National Cable Television Association’s Cable Show inWashington, D.C., on Monday.

The most intriguing theory about what Google’s really up to came from Jason Bazinet, an analyst who covers cable, satellite and entertainment at Citigroup C -2.72% Global Markets. In Bazinet’s view, Google Fiber is a regulatory play aimed at driving down the cost of a cable subscription.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/06/11/googles-not-so-evil-plan-to-lower-your-cable-bill/