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Lawsuit Alleging Facebook Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy Moves Forward
Facebook Inc. users who say the social network's facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook's ...
Facebook Must Face Shareholder Class Actions Over IPO
A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company's May 2012 initial public offering. ...
Facebook May Let Users Keep Separate Work Profile, FT Reports
Facebook Inc. is secretly working on a new website called "Facebook at Work" that would allow users to keep their personal profile separate from their work profile, the Financial Times reported. The ...
Job Applicants Posting About Alcohol Use On Facebook May Be Good Hires, Study Says
Employers are increasingly using Facebook to screen job applicants and weed out candidates they think have undesirable traits. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that those ...
Facebook Admits Year-Long Data Breach Exposed 6 Million Users
Facebook Inc. has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late ...
Social Media & The SEC: New Opportunity and New Risk for Public Companies
It is now over a month since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued guidance in the form of a report of investigation ("April Report") explaining why it decided not to bring an ...
How Many CEOs Tweet Anyway?
During a session of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society D&O Symposium earlier this year, described in a feature article on carriermanagment.com, panelists debated the risks of ...