Social networking website Facebook, which has seen an increasing number of complaints about its privacy policy and the way it handles user data even as it becomes more popular, this week announced it has made further changes to its terms of use document.
 
The document, which Facebook refers to as “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” (SRR), is open for comment to the public until April 27th 2012 at 5 p.m. PDT. Facebook last month announced it was going to make changes to its SRR, …

Google Introduces New Privacy Policy. Japan Has Objections / image via Google

Google’s new terms of use, which concentrate on the privacy policy for all Google services in a single document, received skepticism from many users, and now also from Japanese authorities.
Google’s privacy policy simplification from 70 documents to one caught the attention of the Japanese government, which considers that the change would violate the laws of Japan.
Japanese authorities have sent a letter to …

Application developer Michael Lee Johnson, who had the nerve to post an ad on his Facebook page inviting members to add him to their Google Circles, has been rewarded for his efforts by having his page erased and all of his other campaigns banned as well.
 

Facebook bans Michael Lee Johnson over Google+ ad

Johnson’s sponsored ad, which featured him wearing an artsy looking painters hat in a tilted, 45 degree headshot, said: “If you’re lucky enough to have a Google + account, add …