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Facebook round up

For those who like to read the warnings on cigarette packets, a roundup of Facebook stories:

Macworld US:
Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos

Reuters:
Facebook and other media costs UK billions

BBC:
Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published

BBC:
Germany officials launch legal action against Facebook

Macworld UK:
Suspicious Facebook app attracts nearly 300,000 fans

BBC:
New Facebook Social Features Secretly Add Apps to Profile

Techcrunch:
Purported interview with Facebook employee Details use of ‘Master Password’

BBC:
Man Killed Wife in Facebook Row

BBC:
Facebook Killer Guilty of Murder

BBC:
Shock at Sydney Teenager’s ‘Facebook Murder’

Macworld UK:
Sophos: Facebook hoax sex video hits users

Macworld UK:
Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug

Wired:
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s time for an Open Alternative

The Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Myspace Confront Privacy Loophole

Ars Technica:
Privacy Groups Complain to FTC over Facebook Privacy Tweaks

Reuters:
Face-to-Face time makes us happier than Facebook

BBC:
Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting

New York Times:
Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options

All Facebook:
Infographic: The History of Facebook’s Default Privacy Settings

Macworld US:
Europe chastises Facebook over default privacy settings

BBC:
Facebook changes are ‘not enough,’ say groups

Ars Technica:
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers

Ars Technica:
Understanding the latest Facebook privacy trainwreck

Benedelman.org:
Facebook Leaks Usersnames, User IDs, and personal details to Advertisers

Macworld UK:
Facebook admits censoring content in Pakistan

PC World:
4 Reasons to Worry about Privacy on Facebook

Quit Facebook Day:
We’re quitting Facebook

Network World:
Facebook users warned of sexy ‘Candid Camera Prank’ attack

Macworld US:
Lifejacking’ exploit fools Facebook users and Friends

BBC:
Facebook “clickjacking” spreads across site

Reuters:
German minister sees Facebook fined over privacy

BBC:
Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London

Of course, it’ll never happen to you.

Updated periodically.

Another nail in Facebook's coffin?

I know this is pure schadenfreud on my part, but I couldn’t not post about a guy selling Facebook profiles on eBay. I do hope you’re not a friend.....

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Facebook Security

If you're stupid enough to still have a Facebook account, you may at least want to follow some of these security tips from the BBC's Click show.

In other social networking news, it looks like they've had to
downgrade their ad revenue forecasts, boohoo. You know you're there to be monetarised right?