UPDATE: According to Inside Facebook  the Timeline opt-in period will last for a “few” weeks BUT: From the time users activate the new profile, they will have seven days to review their content before anyone else will see it. From the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Web Site: Without user consent, Facebook announced today that [...]

Explaining online privacy and demonstrating how privacy controls work for all social networks/databases can be and should be an important role for the info pro. People might believe that privacy is “no big deal” until their data is compromised or accidentally shared with people they don’t want to view it. From eMarketer: Internet users flock [...]

From ZDNet’s “Between the Lines” Column: ‘Report abuse’ features in Facebook give users access to personal, private and hidden photos that would normally be hidden from view. The flaw, spotted by members of a body building forum, no less, allows Facebook users to access photos revealed by the report abuse tool. Only a handful of [...]