Tag: tagging
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Twitter to drop the @ symbol for more streamlined tweeting?
Twitter is Android testing a new @-less social experience, removing the tagging system which it made famous.
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Facebook Buys Face.com – Does Facial Recognition Database Pose New Threat to Our Online Safety?
Following a recent $1-billion deal to buy Instagram, the world dominating social network Facebook has now snapped up the small Israeli-based software company which created and runs the Face.com website – featuring a software which can recognise the faces of our friends and family from stored information on the website’s database. High-profile business site Reuters…
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Facebook under scrutiny by FTC over user tracking allegations
Online human catalogue Facebook has found itself once again under scrutiny over user privacy concerns. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (abrev. EPIC) and a number of United States privacy groups have filed a complaint requesting that the popular Facebook site be probed by the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the social network ‘tracks’ it’s users…
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Facebook 3.5 update now available on iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch
The Facebook 3.5 update for iOS has just been launched bringing along some much-needed tweaks to the popular social experience on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Delivering the same friendly connectivity and chat as Apple gadget owners have come to expect, noticeable alterations come in the form of friend and location tagging in posts…
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Facebook 3.5 update now available on iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch
The Facebook 3.5 update for iOS has just been launched bringing along some much-needed tweaks to the popular social experience on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Delivering the same friendly connectivity and chat as Apple gadget owners have come to expect, noticeable alterations come in the form of friend and location tagging in posts…
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Facebook face recognition tagging banned in Germany
Controversial tech hits a legal barrier in Deutschland
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Facebook turns on ‘Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions’
The new face recognition tagging feature has been available in the US since December last year, although Facebook has now decided that today is the day that the social networking site will roll-out the new feature world-wide. The new feature is now available to all Facebook users, although for some reason Facebook has decided not…