Facebook's Latest Apology, Annotated

June 25, 2013 Subscribe · Forward How Facebook Tried Burying The News Of A Massive Privacy Leak When Facebook admitted Friday that a year-old glitch had erroneously exposed 6 million users' contact information, the social network known for helping things go viral seemed to do its best to keep the news from spreading. Continue reading... Richer College Students Use Facebook Differently: Study An Apple Update May Have Undermined Snapchat's Most Important Feature Facebook's Plan To Suck Up Even More Of Your Time This Could Change How You Watch Movies Forever Facebook Users: 'This Is Not Acceptable' 200,000 People Don't Want This Anonymous Hacker To Go To Prison 200,000 People Don't Want This Anonymous Hacker To Go To Prison 7 Tips for Funding Science Education Creepy Computer Guy's Craigslist Personal Ad Facebook's Latest Apology, Annotated This Beer Glass Forces You To Talk To Your Friends (Instead Of Checking Your Phone) JOHN PAVLEY Want to Know What's Next for Social Internet Applications? Start Mudding! Almost all of what we do on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Google+ was predicted, some might even say preordained, by an ancient race of wizards and warriors in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm talking about Multi User Dungeons (MUDs) and the activity of Mudding. Continue reading... URIZENUS SKLAR Barrett Brown vs. the Private Intelligence Business In view of the recent exposure of the PRISM program by Edward Snowden, one might think journalist Barrett Brown would be in the news discussing the new revelations, but he isn't. He is in federal custody, facing charges that add up to 105 years in prison. The question is: Why? Continue reading... LINDA HOWARD URBACH My Tech Support in Shining Armor "I have all day. Take your time. I'm not going anywhere until we get this fixed." I had heard this before. But with Daniel I got the feeling he really meant it. Continue reading... CHRIS SAGERS The Fate of Apple and Antitrust: Overcoming Confusion About the eBooks Case As the Justice Department's so-called "eBooks" antitrust trial winds down in a Manhattan federal courtroom, it is remarkable how many people have failed to see how easy the case really is. Continue reading... GARY HART The Intelligence-Industrial Complex It is dangerous to have a technology-empowered government capable of amassing private data; it is even more dangerous to privatize this Big Brother world. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003