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  • Yahoo Pulls Facebook Into Yahoo Mail

    Yahoo Pulls Facebook Into Yahoo Mail

    Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service

    Continuing efforts to bring more services into its online properties, Yahoo is now letting customers update their Facebook status from within Yahoo Mail.

    Yahoo will start to roll out the capability on Monday evening in “select markets,” it said in a blog post, though it didn’t specify which ones.

    To use the feature, customers must first link their Yahoo and Facebook accounts. They can do that by clicking “add to Facebook” in the status section of Yahoo Mail’s What’s New page and signing in with their Facebook credentials.

    Once the accounts are linked, users can type a message in a status box that appears in Yahoo Mail and choose to post it on Facebook, on Yahoo or both. If they choose to post it on Yahoo, the status message shows up on their contacts’ What’s New page in Yahoo Mail.

    The integration also displays people’s Facebook profile photos within Yahoo e-mails. Clicking on the profile picture takes the recipient of the mail to that person’s Facebook page.

    Yahoo said in the blog post that the Facebook integration is just the start of what the company plans to add to Yahoo Mail. Last month it let people importFacebook friends’ e-mail addresses to Yahoo Contacts.

    The changes are being introduced using the Facebook Connect program.

    , Mar 30, 2010

  • Home Sec: Why No Panic Button On Facebook?

    Home Sec: Why No Panic Button On Facebook?

    Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online

    Home Secretary Alan Johnson is to meet Facebook bosses to ask why it does not have a ‘panic button’ for children concerned about paedophiles, Sky News has learned.

    The judge said the case was a “salutary lesson for teenage girls and parents rising from the now obvious dangers that can be associated with social networking”.

    Det Supt Andy Reddick, who led the investigation, cautioned against meeting strangers through sites such as Facebook.

    “It’s clear from our investigation that sexual predators are using these sites to target their next victim,” he said.

    “Our message is do not meet people who you have only met on social networking sites.”

    :: Facebook has overtaken Google to become the most visited website in the US for the first time, according to industry analysts Experian Hitwise.

    It follows the case of teenager Ashleigh Hall, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a serial sex offender she met on the social networking site.

    Paul Chapman killed the 17 year old from from Darlington after posing as a teenager himself and arranging a date with her.

    Knowing Ashleigh would suspect him when she saw him arrive as a balding, older man, he sent her a text to say his father was coming to meet her.

    He texted: “My dad’s on his way babe”, and when Chapman arrived, Ashleigh texted back: “He’s here babe.”

    Chapman, 33, of no fixed address, was sentenced to a minimum of 35 years by Judge Peter Fox QC at Teesside Crown Court.

     Sky News Online

  • Inquiry into MI6 chief on Facebook

    Inquiry into MI6 chief on Facebook

    b1The Liberal Democrats are calling for an inquiry into whether the new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, should be allowed to take up his post after his wife apparently published personal details and photographs on the Facebook website.

    Lady Shelley Sawers disclosed potentially compromising information, including the location of the London flat used by the couple and the whereabouts of their three children and of Sir John’s parents on the social networking site, The Mail on Sunday has reported.

    The details, which were removed after the newspaper contacted the Foreign Office, also revealed the couple’s friendships with actors Moir Leslie and Alister Cameron.

    Lady Sawers’ half-brother, Hugo Haig-Thomas, a former diplomat, was said to be among those featured in family photographs on Facebook.

    Mr Haig-Thomas was an associate and researcher for controversial historian David Irving, who was jailed for three years in Austria in 2006 after pleading guilty to Holocaust denial, the paper reported.

    Lady Sawers put no privacy protection on her account, allowing any of Facebook’s 200 million users in the open-access “London” network to see the entries, the paper said.

    Senior politicians said the security lapse raised concerns about Sir John’s ability to take up his post as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, giving him responsibility for Britain’s overseas spying operations.

    Edward Davy, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, called on Gordon Brown to launch an inquiry into the matter.

    ITN

  • Civil liberties villain of the week: Facebook

    Civil liberties villain of the week: Facebook

    The social networking site’s attempt to take advantage of its users’ content highlights the danger of granting a commercial entity access to your private life

    guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 February 2009 11.47 GMT

    Drumroll, please: the first liberty central award for corporate privacy abuse goes to … Facebook, in recognition of its attempt to lay “an irrevocable, perpetual” claim to users’ original content.

    Under Facebook’s previous terms of service, the company’s right to your original content expired if you deleted your account. On February 4, it announced it had updated the terms of service. Sharp-eyed users quickly realised the new conditions retrospectivly granted the company the right to retain their old content – even if they closed their account, Facebook retained the right to market and licence their pictures and blogposts in perpetuity.

    Facebook defended the new terms, with its founder Mark Zuckerberg posting a blog titled On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information, which could be crudely summarised as “trust us”. But yesterday, the company was forced to perform a U-turn, ditching the new stipulations in the face of heavy criticism from privacy campaigners, the threat of legal action and revolt by users. One Facebook group, People Against the New Terms of Service, grew to a membership of more than 109,000 in a matter of days. The company has now reinstated the old terms of service and has promised users more imput via a new Facebook group called the Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

    Perhaps the real problem with Facebook is that it creates an illusion of privacy, while in reality your private thoughts will eternally reside in cyberspace. With a new study suggesting social networking sites can damage our health by reducing the time we spend building relationships face-to-face, perhaps its time we all log off and get a life?

    Nominate your civil liberties villain of the week in the comments below.

    Source:  www.guardian.co.uk, 19 February 2009

  • Is Real James Bond On Facebook?

    Is Real James Bond On Facebook?

    By Sky News SkyNews – Sunday, September 28 01:29 pm

    Spies are using social networking website Facebook to try to recruit real-life James Bonds.

    The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has begun advertising on it as part of a campaign to find potential MI6 agents.

    The adverts have been launched in an attempt to reach a large and wide variety of people, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.

    MI6 began recruiting openly in April 2006, using mainly radio and newspaper advertising campaigns.

    It also recruits through its website, where candidates can fill out application forms online.

    “The Secret Intelligence Service’s open recruitment campaign continues to target wide pools of talent representative of British society today,” the spokeswoman added.

    “A number of channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organisation.

    “Facebook is a recent example” she went on.

    The website, which was launched in 2004, currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.

    Other popular social networking sites include Bebo and MySpace.

    Source: uk.news.yahoo.com, 28 September 2008