Facebook has launched a new registration tool that lets website developers provide a quick and easy way for users to sign up using their data from Facebook.
The tool, a counterpart to Facebook Login, involves customizing and inserting a small …
Advertising startup Media6Degrees has raised $17 million in a second round of venture funding for what it calls “social targeting.”
The New York-headquartered company says it uses anonymous social data to go beyond normal online ad targeting, which is traditionally …
Intelius, a company that runs background checks on people via everything from iPhone apps to screening phone calls, today launched TrueRep, a new subscription service designed to help consumers track and control their online identity and reputation.
The Bellevue, Wash.-based …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Apple fails to fix iPhone Daylight Saving Time alarm bug for US — If you live in the US, …
Concerns about privacy on social networks have increased drastically since a year ago among older users, but not younger ones, a new study shows.
Forrester Research’s North American Technographics survey, conducted in the second quarter of 2009 and 2010, asked …
The battle of sass between Google and Facebook got a lot hotter today, when Google lobbed another grenade at Facebook’s policies on user data by specifically asking users if they want to potentially compromise their friends’ information by uploading it …
Google will start a fund worth $8.5 million to help pay for lawyer expenses and provide funding for nonprofits focused on privacy education after settling a class-action lawsuit slamming Google Buzz’s privacy issues, it announced today.
The Google Buzz privacy …
BlueCava, a credit bureau for devices conducting business online, has closed a $5 million first round of funding led by billionaire Mark Cuban and entrepreneur Tim Headington. The company told VentureBeat it expects to conduct a second round as soon …
After giving LOLapps the death penalty, Facebook is granting a reprieve. The social network allowed LOLapps to begin operating its apps on Facebook late Monday night after taking them down for a couple of days.
Facebook made all of LOLapps’ …
The Wall Street Journal reported that its investigation of Facebook apps found that many of the most popular titles have been transmitting identifying user information to dozens of advertising and internet tracking companies.
The issue affects tens of millions of …
As debates continue to spring up about how smartphones and mobile applications use our data, there’s a growing opportunity for companies that say they can help protect our privacy — like Truste.
San Francisco-based Truste, once a non-profit and now …
Bad buzz over a faulty service can exact a price from an Internet giant. But what’s the real cost?
Google has settled with plaintiffs over the privacy concerns stirred up by its attempt at a Twitter-like social network, Buzz, to …
Just weeks after Facebook announced its new location check-in feature dubbed Facebook Places, several companies have emerged claiming themselves as the first to leverage the features new set of user data. While each company is using the new service slightly differently, it’s not …
A federal lawsuit filed last week alleges that Clearspring Technologies gathered private information on users via its ubiquitous AddThis widget, which is used on a wide variety of top web sites, Cnet reported.
The suit was filed in federal court …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two other Facebook executives have gone to Washington D.C. this week to explain the company’s stance on privacy as momentum builds for online consumer privacy legislation.
Privacy is a particularly pressing issue for Facebook, whose …
Location-based services that are taking advantage of a smartphone’s GPS and wi-fi triangulation capabilities are continuously struggling to get even more accurate location data to pinpoint phones and, by extension, their users. While accuracy is a boon for many, there …
The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer.
Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli …
Facebook has made it easier than it used to be for users to understand what kinds of personal data applications need in order to work. From now on, users will get a single dialog box explaining all of the data …
Facebook is hoping that the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Attorney General will bear ultimate responsibility for cracking down on rogue apps, according to comments yesterday from the company’s D.C.-based head of public policy Tim Sparapani.
He also said the …
ReputationDefender, a Redwood City-based startup aiming to help people manage their privacy and reputation in a world where more is being published and shared than ever before, raised $15 million in a third round of funding led by JAFCO Ventures. …
