Google settled the FTC complaint that the company used deceptive tactics that violated consumer privacy when it launched it’s social media service, Buzz. Specifically, when Buzz launched, Google used personal Gmail data from its users to populate the Buzz service without their permission. Google’s privacy statement stated they they would not use Gmail data for [...]

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Time Magazine recently published a list of the “Top 50 Worst Inventions” and the list included both mega-hits: Zynga’s online game Farmville and the location-based social application Foursquare. The buzz for both these web applications has been extraordinary. Foursquare for instance has almost 1 million checkins per day. Farmville now has 30 million virtual farms [...]

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