Social Networking Privacy

• Privacy groups ask Federal Trade Commission to halt Facebook-WhatsApp deal

  Privacy groups have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put on hold Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp and investigate how the social media giant plans to use subscriber data.

• Privacy groups ask regulators to halt Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal

  Privacy advocates have asked US regulators to halt Facebook Inc's $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp until there is a clearer understanding of how the company intends to use the personal data of WhatsApp's 450 million users.

• Free speech on Twitter faces test

  What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws. The soccer player has been granted a so-called super-injunction, a stringent and...

• California proposed law cause of headache for social networks

  Here's a law in waiting in California that could change privacy on social networks for good but it also threatens the entire business model of corporate social networking sites. The state of California wants to make it mandatory for the sites to let users chose privacy settings before they register for a website, in fact  make the users' accou...