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Facebook has had its fair share of privacy issues in the past, but one thing the company explicitly doesn’t allow is for users to see who views their profile, according to their official policy.
Since the group managed to get more than 7.000 comments on Facebook's pages, Facebook had to do a worldwide vote on the proposed changes. Such a vote would have only been binding if 30% of all users would have taken part. Facebook did not promote the vote, resulting in only 0.038% participation with about 87% voting against Facebook's new policy.
For example, Facebook's naming policies prohibit names that Facebook judges to have too many words, too many capital letters, or first names that consist of initials. Facebook's monitoring software detects and suspends such accounts. These policies prevent some users from having a Facebook account and profile with their real name.
A user's wall is visible to anyone with the ability to see their full profile, and friends' wall posts appear in the user's News Feed. In July 2007, Facebook allowed users to post attachments to the wall, whereas previously the wall was limited to text only. [12] In May 2008, the Wall-to-Wall for each profile was limited to only 40 posts.
Meta on Wednesday announced some Facebook users will be able to view eBay listings on its Marketplace features just months after the European Commission slammed the social media company with a ...
A shadow profile is a collection of information pertaining to an application's users, or even some of its non-users, collected without their consent. [1] The term is most commonly used to describe the manner in which technological companies such as Facebook [ 2 ] collect information related to people who did not willingly provide it to them.
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.
The person also raised the issue that the settlement was unfair because Facebook still controlled the foundation since an employee from Facebook was in charge of it. In response to the challenge of the settlement, Facebook explained that direct payment would not be a wise decision compared to setting up a foundation.