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The Facebook Privacy Settings You’ve Lost Forever

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

While covering Facebook’s systematic elimination of privacy , we’ve been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples.

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Google Princess Opens Up to Vogue on Her Fairy Tale Wedding

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It looks like we weren’t the only ones covering Marissa Mayers’ wedding yesterday: Google’s cyborg polar fairy tried to give Vogue the exclusive on her hugely extravagant San Francisco nuptials, which were even more grandiose than we’d been told.

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Facebookarazzi: Stalking Celebrities Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The implications of Facebook’s recent privacy rollback will likely take months to reveal themselves.

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Facebook Begins ‘Privacy’ Con

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook’s big push to give you “more control of your information” is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. Facebook’s 350 million+ users are being greeted by the dialog below, an “Important..

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Page Six’s Vendetta Against Levi Johnston Continues

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Levi Johnston and his ‘handler’ Tank Jones personally snubbed Page Six boss Richard Johnson at the Fleshbot awards. The next day an unflattering item ran in the column. Today, it gets worse for the young Alaskan.

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Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy. The suit was probably inevitable.

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