A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Mancx has revealed that nearly all Americans distrust information they get from the internet.
According to the results of the study, 98 percent of American adults who look for information on the World Wide Web find grounds to doubt the information they get.
“These findings demonstrate that people want online information to be more credible than it is today, and that current web services just don’t cut it,” said Mancx CMO and Co-founder …

Consumer Reports (CR) published the results of a survey on May 3 that showed 13 million Facebook users in the U.S. either do not use or do not know about Facebook’s privacy settings.  There are currently about 150 million Americans who have Facebook accounts.
Consumer Report’s annual state of the net report detailed the results of the survey of 2002 households in the U.S. with online access, of which 1,340 had active Facebook accounts.  A press release issued by Consumer Reports described …

A new Facebook privacy encroachment, which may shock even the most carefree social media Netizen, was revealed by Reg “Raganwald” Braithwaite on Friday – apps which have been authorized by a Facebook user may take with it and use a myriad of personal information about that user’s “friends” including birthday, education and work history, location, hometown, status updates, and videos.
 
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Facebook’s social sharing party, the …

“There has never been a time we have been pressured to turn over data – we fight every time we believe the legal process is insufficient” a Facebook spokesman said by way of dismissing the charge made by Wikileak’s chief editor, Julian Assange, that Facebook and other major tech companies actively help the U.S. government get information about its citizens.  Assange, in an interview with Russia Today this week, called Facebook “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been …

Google announced today that it has developed a new algorithm aimed at addressing the annoying problem of content farms, websites that focus mainly on playing the search engine optimization game (SEO) and using various dishonest techniques to make their website rise higher in the search rankings or, using link farms within the website that force the user to open several websites to see the one page they want to see.

Google announced in January that it was working on ways to address the problem …

Israel based start-up My6sense launched a program today to help users deal with information overload on Twitter by streaming the Tweets that are likely to be most interesting to the user, rather than displaying them sorted by date.  Twitter is a valuable tool, but because it is an ‘always on’, constantly flowing stream of information, it means it is easy to miss relevant information that is of interest, simply by (GASP) stepping away from your computer for a little while.

My6sense, an …

WikiLeaks is getting ready for a legal challenge after being subpoenaed by the United States demanding that it provide private messages, billing addresses, and other details from its Twitter account.  WikiLeaks just found out about the subpoena and thinks other social networking websites and email service providers will be told to disclose their private conversations.
“If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of …

Facebook has introduced a revamped News Feed, with its ‘Most Recent” option transformed into drop down menu showing a variety of options.  The new feature is not yet available for everyone yet, so Facebook may be testing the waters.

Previously the News Feed had just two options – Top News and Most Recent, but the new News feeds allows users overwhelmed with a little bit too much information to apply a filter showing only stories about Games, Status Updates, Photos, Links, Pages, or …

Over time, data privacy and security is becoming harder and harder. In this connection Wall Street Journal recently conducted a study, which found that many of the applications for smartphones steal data without the knowledge of gadget owner.
For the purpose of study, 101 applications were selected from among the most popular for mobile platforms iOS and Android, which included games, software, online newspapers, etc. It was revealed that 56 applications stole the unique ID of the Phone (Unique …