Recent Blog Posts
-
Startups Versus Giants
May 15 20122:41 pm EDT -
Randi Zuckerberg Just Isn't That Into You
May 03 20125:21 pm EDT -
The Poster as Office DJ
Apr 30 20122:29 pm EDT -
This Bicycle Instrument Dance Partner Cuts a Concrete Rug
Apr 18 20124:25 pm EDT -
Life Goes on for Tupac Hologram
Apr 16 20124:14 pm EDT -
The Real Rap on Financial Planning
Apr 11 20125:01 pm EDT -
A 9-Year-Old's Elaborate Cardboard Arcade
Apr 11 20128:02 am EDT -
YouTube Enters the Third Dimension
Apr 05 201212:06 pm EDT -
See the Google Monocle
Apr 04 20122:26 pm EDT -
The Street (and Air) Legal Flying Car
Apr 03 20125:25 pm EDT
How Much Facebook Knows About You
When Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all the data the company had collected about him, he wasn't sure what to expect. He got 1,222 pages of PDF files listing every thing he'd liked, every message he'd sent—even the ones he'd since deleted—and every poke he'd poked.
It's a scary amount of data, and Schrems has since started a campaign to bring more privacy to the social network. You can see the full story in the video below.
Get more business intelligence from Portfolio.com:
- A Hashtag How-To: Why does everyone on Twitter use the pound sign all the time? Our marketing expert Shama Kabani explains.
- Costume Designer Gets Mass Opportunity: Will fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dress like the star Lisbeth Salander when the movie debuts? Thanks to an enterprising costume designer’s deal with H&M, it's an option.
- Happy IPO Holidays: Zynga and Jive Software illustrate different aspects of the social-media revolution. This week, they're among the headliners for what could be the biggest initial public offering roundup since 2007.
Nicola Kean is an assistant editor for Portfolio.com.
Comments
If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.
