Editors' Blog | Journalism.co.uk » Online privacy http://blogs.journalism.co.uk Online journalism news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:40:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Advertising Age: Calls for Facebook privacy regulation could hit publishers http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2010/05/04/advertising-age-calls-for-facebook-privacy-regulation-could-hit-publishers/ http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2010/05/04/advertising-age-calls-for-facebook-privacy-regulation-could-hit-publishers/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 07:41:04 +0000 Laura Oliver http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=21098

A US senator has written to the country’s Federal Trade Commission asking for the development of guidelines for how individual’s information on Facebook can be used.

The letter from Senator Charles Schumer follows Facebook’s launch of its Open Social Graph Platform – a series of new tools and functionality for the social network, including deeper links with third-party sites. The network’s new “like” feature, for example, has already been put into use by numerous news sites, including the Washington Post.

The flap couldn’t come at a worse time for online advertising, facing the very real prospect that it will be regulated in the form of privacy legislation that would require publishers, networks or marketers to receive specific consent to use consumer data for a variety of purposes on the web.

(…) Of course, Facebook needs to default to openness because that’s where the service derives its viral nature. The more that is shared, the faster the Facebook web grows.

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Online privacy: Consider using an alias (e.g. a nickname) for personal online activity – it will minimise the risk of your holiday snaps being picked up when someone searches for professional information about you. Tipster: Joanna Roberts.

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Online privacy: We should all take more steps to protect our privacy online, but the implications for journalists can be even more serious. Read How to: protect your privacy online and why to learn more. Tipster: John Thompson

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