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The Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes are a collection of internet hoaxes claiming that posting a status on Facebook constitutes a legal notice protecting one's posts from copyright infringement [1] or providing privacy protection to one's profile information and posted content. The hoax takes the form of a Facebook status that urges others ...
The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user. Facebook buys data from third parties, gathered from both online and offline sources, to supplement its own data on users.
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
Facebook's notification to "update your name". The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. [1]
Facebook Dating includes privacy features and friends are unable to view their friends' dating profile. [163] In July, Facebook was charged £500,000 by UK watchdogs for failing to respond to data erasure requests. [164]
The wall is the original profile space where Facebook users' content was displayed, until December 2011. It allowed the posting of messages, often short or temporal notes, for the user to see while displaying the time and date the message was written.
The change was described by Ryan Tate as Facebook's Great Betrayal, [366] forcing user profile photos and friends lists to be visible in users' public listing, even for users who had explicitly chosen to hide this information previously, [365] and making photos and personal information public unless users were proactive about limiting access. [367]
A Facebook spokesperson said the pages were disabled as part of a routine sweep because they were created with fake personal profiles, a violation of the company's term of service. In this case a number of the Facebook personal profile pages represented causes, rather than real people.