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News Story
4/29/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
Your privacy is being debated by lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington D.C., and there's a good chance you're going to lose out. In Congress, a poorly written bill could erode your privacy, while in the California Legislature, a good bill that would protect your privacy is coming under fierce attack.
Internet companies -- including Google...
News Story
4/24/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The social network increased its lobbying budget to $2.45 million in the first quarter.
Facebook is spending fast and furious to advance a social-network-friendly agenda with U.S. lawmakers.
In its first quarter of this year, Facebook, according to its lobby disclosure form, shelled out $2.45 million on lobbying costs. The figure amounts to a 75...
Video
4/23/2013
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director John Simpson on whether employers have the right to monitor social media accounts.
News Release
4/23/2013
Posted by John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA – Facebook continued its major effort to win friends in Washington, spending $2.45 million on lobbying efforts during the first quarter, a 277 percent increase from $650,000 a year earlier just filed disclosures show.
For all of 2012 Facebook’s spent $3.99 million on lobbying, according to records filed with...
News Story
3/29/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
Creating A Standard Is Tougher Than It Looks, Apparently
The World Wide Web Consortium, an international group of academics, consumer advocates, and representatives from business, has among its mandates one of acute interest to the online ad industry: how web sites should respond when a user says he'd rather not be tracked, a so-called "...
News Story
3/29/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The media is once again cueing up its Facebook phone speculation, but this time it may be for good reason. An invitation to an April 4 company event mentions Android, and that is conjuring up visions not only of a Facebook-branded smartphone, but a custom-designed version of Google's operating system that plays up social network functionality...
News Story
3/8/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
I've not always been happy about the changes Facebook has made over the years, but I like its update of the News Feed, which the company announced and started rolling out this week.
The new News Feed is less cluttered and more graphically appealing. And it gives special prominence to photographs, which now represent about half of all posts in...
News Story
2/15/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The site explains how search results for minors are displayed with its new search tool
Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors.
"As with all of our products, we designed Graph Search...
News Story
1/24/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
The social network is spending millions to advance a pro-Facebook agenda in the nation's capital. Cue the cynicism
acebook wined and dined U.S. lawmakers and racked up a tab close to $4 million during 2012, an increase of 196 percent over its courting costs in the previous year.
According to disclosure forms, Facebook spent $1.4 million in the...
News Story
1/23/2013
Posted by Mark Reback
Google's spending on lobbying was up 70 percent in 2012, Facebook's up nearly 200 percent
Google, AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the top corporate spenders on lobbying the U.S. government in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to information released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.
In some other quarters,...
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