The Public Interest Group recently released a score card grading states on their privacy laws. PIRG is now calling on lawmakers to pass bills that better protect consumers on two fronts.
turns out the stuff they announced was run-of-the-mill stuff. and i m sorry, we were just lost you for a bit there, dan. this new these new features they re announcing, the privacy part of this, how does that change your experience on facebook? well, there s two things that privacy related or your personal content related that they announced today. one is if you want to, i m not sure why you would, if you wanted to take all your data on facebook and download in one handy form, you can just get it all in a zip file, all your posts, all your photos, all your messages, everything like that. you can just download it. i guess you might want to do that. and the other one is on the dashboard where all the apps that you have live, there will be clearer controls for giving apps permissions or taking them away to see your information, to share it. i m in austin right now at the game developer s conference where the talk is about facebook games. that s important for people who are tired o