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Privacy
Can Interviewers Insist on ‘Shoulder Surfing’ Your Facebook Page?
Privacy advocates say that, for now, it is legal for a prospective employer, during a job interview, to insist that you log into your Facebook page and then click through your “friends only” posts, photos and messages. Read more about Can Interviewers Insist on ‘Shoulder Surfing’ Your Facebook Page?
Signing Online Increasingly Means Signing Away your Privacy
“Stop spreading lies about Iran on Facebook,” hissed the message written in Farsi and sent to Hamid, an Iranian-American graduate in California. We know where to find you, the anonymous writer warned: “Watch out, we will come after you.” Hamid was shocked: he thought the change he’d made to his Facebook photo – replacing it with a symbol of solidarity with the Iranian opposition – could be viewed only by people he’d “friended”. Read more about Signing Online Increasingly Means Signing Away your Privacy