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Facebook announced changes to its privacy and advertising policies on its company blog last Thursday, extending Facebook's ability to track users outside of Facebook -- undoing previous assurances it "does not track users across the web."

a promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. I maintain fairly restrictive privacy settings, and most of the page didn't predict much, but the income prediction was a $20,000 range almost perfectly centered on my actual salary. If that weren't enough, it also combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa ("obsessions"), which interact more with you ("stalkers"), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely ("liabilities").

Facebook stalking in real life.

Carmen and her mother are close. As far as Carmen’s concerned, she has nothing to hide from her mother so she’s happy to have her mom as her ‘friend’ on Facebook. Of course, Carmen’s mom doesn’t always understand the social protocols on Facebook and Carmen sometimes gets frustrated. She hates that her mom comments on nearly every post, because it “scares everyone away…Everyone kind of disappears after the mom post…It’s just uncool having your mom all over your wall. That’s just lame.” Still, she knows that her mom means well and she sometimes uses this pattern to her advantage. While Carmen welcomes her mother’s presence, she also knows her mother overreacts. In order to avoid a freak out, Carmen will avoid posting things that have a high likelihood of mother misinterpretation. This can make communication tricky at times and Carmen must work to write in ways that are interpreted differently by different people.

This infographic allows you to explore the categories of information that various social networks make available to other applications. If you log in to a Web site with your Twitter account, this is what Twitter sends about you to the site. If you play Farmville on Facebook, this is what is sent to Farmville. Those applications, in turn, often give data about your activities back to the social network. These exchanges of information take place through what’s known as an application programming interface, or an A.P.I. Read more here. (To use the infographic, click to zoom in and see specific fields; click on the black bar to zoom back out.)

Cette année, le repas de Thanksgiving risque d'être tendu chez les Zuckerberg. Directrice marketing de Facebook jusqu'en 2011 et désormais entrepreneuse indépendante, Randi Zuckerberg, la sœur de Mark, publie un livre pour enfants (à paraître le 5 novembre) qui explique les dangers de l'abus d'utilisation d'Internet et critique l'addiction aux réseaux sociaux, relate le New York Magazine.

w long can you hold out? You'll see a short list of privacy questions and a ticking timer. Good luck.

Et si Andy Warhol avait tort, et qu'au lieu d'un quart d'heure de célébrité nous n'avions qu'un quart d'heure d'anonymat ? Dans cette courte intervention, Juan Enriquez parle des effets étonnamment permanents de la divulgation numérique de notre vie privée. Il nous donne les clés des Grecs anciens pour nous aider à gérer nos nouveaux "tatouages électroniques". Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about profound changes that genomics will bring in business, technology, and society. Full bio »

“They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.”

Tips to keep a relative privacy on Facebook.

Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.

Why Diaspora could be a fail. It started wrong by asking for money, they should have build first a product, demonstrate that a public social network is possible.

With all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, many people are considering quitting the site altogether. If you're not ready to take it that far, here's how to avoid the privacy breaches without completely deleting your account and losing touch with your friends.