Download or read book Facebook written by Steven Levy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Technology Books of 2020—Financial Times “Levy’s all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Levy’s] evenhanded conclusions are still damning.”—Reason “[He] doesn’t shy from asking the tough questions.”—The Washington Post “Reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire.”—NPR.org The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
Download or read book Privacy Enhancing Technologies written by George Danezis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006, held in Cambridge, UK, in June 2006 co-located with WEIS 2006, the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, and WOTE 2006, the IAVoSS Workshop On Trustworthy Elections. The 24 revised full papers present novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of privacy technologies.
Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
Download or read book Censorship Surveillance and Privacy Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The censorship and surveillance of individuals, societies, and countries have been a long-debated ethical and moral issue. In consequence, it is vital to explore this controversial topic from all angles. Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source on the social, moral, religious, and political aspects of censorship and surveillance. It also explores the techniques of technologically supported censorship and surveillance. Highlighting a range of topics such as political censorship, propaganda, and information privacy, this multi-volume book is geared towards government officials, leaders, professionals, policymakers, media specialists, academicians, and researchers interested in the various facets of censorship and surveillance.
Download or read book Facebook written by Yves Desharnais and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 1st, 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the sites privacy controls. The result was strong criticism from advocacy groups, but general ambivalence from end users. The question for Facebook is how to manage these different stakeholders and remain at the forefront of society's privacy norms.
Download or read book Facebook Safety and Privacy written by Tracy Brown and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facebook is used by 900 million people across the globe as a tool that allows users to share ideas, photos, videos, and other media. But that has resulted in some privacy issues that continue to be a concern. This guide to privacy for Facebook helps readers navigate the settings on their accounts, what to share, what not to share, and more. It includes many special tips on picking an effective password, how to deal with parental concerns, and what to do when faced with specific situations.
Download or read book Antisocial Media written by Siva Vaidhyanathan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In this fully updated paperback edition of Antisocial Media, including a new chapter on the increasing recognition of--and reaction against--Facebook's power in the last couple of years, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And it's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong.
Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Download or read book Media Competence regarding Facebook Privacy Settings written by Stefanie Groß and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,0, University of Copenhagen (Deptartment of Media, Cognition and Communication), course: Audience and User Studies, language: English, abstract: In September 2012 Facebook welcomed the one billionth user and can therefore be entitled as the current biggest social interaction platform worldwide. With growing success since its launch in February 2004 questions about privacy security for user data became a growing issue as well. With expanding user numbers these questions seem to become louder than ever. During the years the Facebook has been on international focus for several privacy flaws for instance in 2005 for not encrypting users’ passwords, in 2006 for publishing every single friend activity without any restriction possibilities in a news feed on the personal start page or in 2007 the implementation of a platform for applications by third-party suppliers. In academic treatments about privacy made so far mainly Facebook itself was putted on the spot and accused of violating their user’s privacy. The social network giant was blamed to treat their user’s privacy too carelessly and to make the matter worse Facebook became more and more commercial – with personal data as currency. The start of showing presence at the stock market in 2011 was just the logical consequence of this new company policy. The two latest critic points Facebook needed to defend for were the standard settings for the privacy interface within the context of the new timeline optic and the latest change in Facebook privacy terms. Both changes happened in 2012. After doing some first superficial research it seemed like there is no academic study so far that does not focus on Facebook as a company in charge regarding this matter. But one could wonder if the users themselves are in charge as well. Are we exhausting our options to protect our private data on Facebook? While Facebook’s privacy flaws are well examined, relatively little literature is available on how much users know and care about these issues. My assumption is that most of the users aren’t doing much about the assumed lack of privacy beyond venting about it.
Download or read book Invention of Facebook and Internet Privacy written by Tamra B. Orr and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of the invention of Facebook in 2004 through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Harvard student, Harvard professor, and potential investor. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Content focuses on point-of-view and encourages readers to understand how background and experience can lead to differing views.
Download or read book Me and Doc written by Raymond M. Santi and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back in time -- this is a story of a child doing everything he can to pass from one grade to another in grammar school and with the ultimate goal of being able to graduate. It brings to light the many changes that occurred from that era till the present time. History is the recorder of things in the past and every hour, day, month, and year is part of that history. 1934-1943 sets the period of this true story.
Download or read book Facebook Fanatic written by BottleTree Books LLC (Firm) and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how to launch your career to 15 million potential customers. Learn how to get crazy popular. Concerned about privacy? Read how to secure it in every area. Here are a few of the topics covered: 75 Ways to Buzz Your Band; Popularity Tips and Tricks to Make You Facebook Royalty; Coolest Profile Names and URLs; Get Celebrities and Famous Bands as Your Friend; Poking and Prodding, Oh My; Rock the Facebook Vote; Be a Blog Hog; Climbing the Wall; Go Underground on Facebook with Little Used Privacy Settings; Make Money Off Your Videos; 55 Ways for Authors to Buzz Their Book; 70 Ways to Get Films Recognized; and 40 Ways to Zoom a Political Campaign. Read today and rule Facebook tomorrow!
Download or read book Privacy in the Modern Age written by Marc Rotenberg and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy—they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, “Should this continue? Is there a better approach?” They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: “What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head.” It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume will be an essential reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day. The premise is clear: there's a problem—let's find a solution.
Download or read book The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps.
Download or read book Cyber Law Privacy and Security Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 1839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet is established in most households worldwide and used for entertainment purposes, shopping, social networking, business activities, banking, telemedicine, and more. As more individuals and businesses use this essential tool to connect with each other and consumers, more private data is exposed to criminals ready to exploit it for their gain. Thus, it is essential to continue discussions involving policies that regulate and monitor these activities, and anticipate new laws that should be implemented in order to protect users. Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications examines current internet and data protection laws and their impact on user experience and cybercrime, and explores the need for further policies that protect user identities, data, and privacy. It also offers the latest methodologies and applications in the areas of digital security and threats. Highlighting a range of topics such as online privacy and security, hacking, and online threat protection, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for IT specialists, administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and upper-level students.
Download or read book Facebook and User Controlled Privacy Evaluating Privacy Settings as Notice and Consent written by David G. Krone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, organizations such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have begun to enforce "notice-and-consent"--a privacy model that relies on users' ability to interpret an organization's written description of its information practices and to choose whether to participate. In the past, organizations using this model have fallen under harsh criticism for providing long, legalistic notices and confusing, unclear choices. Facebook has sought to address these issues through privacy settings such as the "inline" profile control. Ideally, these settings could vindicate notice-and-consent by using graphics, metrics and other mechanisms to better inform and facilitate privacy decisions. They are, however, new and untested. To evaluate these privacy settings for "notice-and-consent," therefore, I conducted a behavioral survey of Facebook users to determine the usability of these privacy settings and conflicts between users' setting selections and their privacy preferences. I hypothesized that the more usable a privacy setting is, the less it will be associated with privacy conflicts. I then tested these hypotheses using a multi-dimensional scaling and regression. I found that usability does reduce the rate of privacy conflicts, but the relationship is weak. However, highly visible settings, such as Facebook's "inline" profile and post controls, were associated with low rates of privacy conflict.
Download or read book End User Privacy in Human Computer Interaction written by Giovanni Iachello and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the rich and diverse landscape of privacy in HCI and CSCW, describing some of the legal foundations and historical aspects of privacy, sketching out an overview of the body of knowledge with respect to designing, implementing, and evaluating privacy-affecting systems, and charting many directions for future work.
