This Social Media CyberWatch looks at various legislative updates to privacy law, as well as other social media tracking activities.
Tag Archives: Social Media
Social Media CyberWatch – April 2013
May 2, 2013 – 3:51 pm
Social Media CyberWatch – March 2013
April 2, 2013 – 6:07 pm
This edition of Social Media CyberWatch looks at new developments in privacy research, legal debates, and online service provider policies and decisions.
Social Media CyberWatch – February 2013
February 27, 2013 – 6:59 am
This Social Media CyberWatch looks at the rebirth of CISPA, death of bill C-30, EU privacy lobbying, Facebook and Google Play privacy concerns, and various web tracking policy developments such as Do Not Track and third-party cookies implementations.
Passware expands to grab Facebook and Google passwords
February 20, 2013 – 12:56 pm
Source: CNet
Passware Inc. is a forensics security company that develops investigation software kits to reveal passwords on seized computers.
EVENT: HarassMap, Social Mapping Sexual Harassment and Violence in Egypt
February 1, 2013 – 12:08 pm
The Citizen Lab and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are hosting an event on 5 February 2013 on how social media can help better understand and help women who are harassed or sexually assaulted.
Social Media CyberWatch – January 2013
January 31, 2013 – 10:51 am
This month’s Social Media Watch looks at the privacy concerns around Facebook’s Graph Search, an open letter to Skype detailing concerns about its practices, several noteworthy legislative privacy stories and several other policy, security and privacy stories from the social media community.
2012 CyberWatch Year in Review: Social Media
December 15, 2012 – 1:49 pm
This year-end report summarizes several trends and noteworthy happenings of the past 12 months, including an increase in government user data requests, a community governance decision-making debacle, and controversies around various privacy-oriented technical implementations.
Social Media CyberWatch – November 2012
November 30, 2012 – 5:02 pm
The inaugural edition of the Social Media CyberWatch discusses issues related to privacy awareness.
Does the Israel-Hamas Internet war violate Twitter’s terms of service?
November 15, 2012 – 9:17 am
Source: The Atlantic
If so, a new way of war may soon meet its end.
GCHQ to trawl Facebook and Twitter for intelligence
October 31, 2012 – 3:36 pm
Source: Ryan Gallagher, The Guardian
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest: all of them could be the source of valuable intelligence that the UK’s intelligence agencies want to know about – and now government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of useful data.
