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Facebook’s Tracking Cookies and How the FTC Could Shake Off Privacy Fatigue

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October 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Looks like the Facebook legal team is going to have to earn its holiday bonus this year. Five class action lawsuits have been filed against Facebook alleging the company violated wiretap laws by setting tracking cookies that contained user IDs and followed browser behavior on sites integrated with the [...] more...

Facebook and Washington Cozy Up

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April 21st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Yup, that was U.S. President Barack Obama yukking it up last night with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as a bunch of Facebook staffers and Silicon Valley hobknobbers at the social network’s Palo Alto headquarters last night. Zuck played moderator for a town-hall-style meeting, taking questions from [...] more...

Facebook’s Origins Rear Their Ugly Head Again With Refiled Lawsuit

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April 12th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Call up Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher — we’ve got the treatment for “The Social Network 2: Status Update.” Or should it be “SN2: Share This”? “No Comment”? “DisLike Button”? “Against the Wall”? Well, I’m not sure about the title, but I definitely have the tagline: “The Winklevoss twins [...] more...

Facebook Plotting Social Revolution in China?

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December 2nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Access to an online social network apparently wasn’t a pennant of Mao’s little red book. Just like YouTube and Twitter, the mainland dwellers of the People’s Republic of China are blocked from accessing the wonders of Facebook. They had it for a moment when Facebook launched its Chinese-language version [...] more...

Apple’s Jobs Can Be an Ass Too

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October 15th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Even that tech CEO of CEOs, Apple’s untouchable Steve Jobs, can be a royal ass to everyday folks. It’s not uncommon for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to be unfavorably compared with Jobs (I’m definitely guilty of that) because Zuck surely wants to seen as a similar charismatic genius. Except [...] more...

Facebook Back in the Young Folks’ Good Graces

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October 15th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As more and more giant posters with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s doppelganger (Jesse Eisenberg) stared down at me from every location imaginable in New York — seriously, I turned the corner from my apartment one September morning and nearly screamed as three sets of those creepy eyes were [...] more...

Facebook: Zuck Hunting Season Opens Nationwide

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October 1st 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I’m quite fortunate that the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole are reeking havoc on the East Coast today — overcast skies merely threatened rain last night as I enjoyed an outside Belle & Sebastian concert for my 30th birthday. Alas, now I’m hungover and it’s miserable outside — [...] more...

Winklevoss: Facebook ‘One of the Least Transparent Companies’

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September 16th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Never afraid of employing sensationalism, The New York Post titles its interview with Tyler Winklevoss — of the Facebook-suing Winklevosses — “Facebook’s Worst Enemies.” Wait a second, I thought that was Paul Ceglia, who claims to own 84% of the social network? It’s hard getting Facebook CEO Mark [...] more...

Vanity Fair Crowns Zuck Silicon Caesar

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September 7th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Hail Caesar and his Silicon Valley kingdom. Vanity Fair has taken some time out from skewering former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to place Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the top of its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. VF notes that Facebook leads [...] more...

Zuckerberg Enters Image Rehab

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July 22nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In “America: The Book,” written by Jon Stewart and “The Daily Show” staff, there’s a rundown of television interviewers, from Ted Koppel to Larry King to Chris Matthews. Under Diane Sawyer, the caption reads, “There is no valid reason to appear with Diane Sawyer.” Hence there’s little valid reason [...] more...



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