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| Facebook Reportedly Starts Rolling Out New Privacy Settings -- in New Zealand | | Users in New Zealand are starting to see new settings for their Facebook accounts that make it easier to set privacy controls, according to a report. The Next Web reports that those users are seeing a "new privacy shortcut menu" that has been added to the main bar on the site. A "privacy settings and tools" page also outlines an overview of privacy options and lets users prevent their Timelines from being indexed by search engines.
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| Facebook's New Privacy Settings And Two Other Stories You Need to Know | | Welcome to this morning's edition of 'First To Know,' a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook Pushes New Privacy Settings Facebook has started pushing its new privacy settings, which are showing to users that are logging into their profiles.
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| 5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:04 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember all the way back on Tuesday, when everyone and their artistically-filtered dog was freaking out about Instagram's new privacy policy? How long ago that seems, now that co-founder Kevin Systrom (above) has walked back the notion that your photos are potentially going to be used in ads. We're cool now, right? Actually, the jury is still out on this one.
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| New Web App Recommends Books Based on Your Tweets | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:44 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Reading a book is a significant investment of time. That's why it's common to ask friends for recommendations when looking for interesting literature. If you haven't said it yourself, you've probably heard someone say the common refrain: "Read any good books lately?" That method has worked fairly well thus far, but an innovative new web app sources recommendations from the person who knows you best — you.
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| Law That Prevents Sharing Netflix Histories May Be Changing | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:34 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The law that's preventing you from sharing your Netflix history may soon change. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would modify a law that restricts sharing a person's video rental history without written consent. The new law would still require permission, but it would allow people to grant it online. That would open the door for video streaming services such as Netflix and iTunes to let U.S.
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| Share Your Chilliest Photos With Us | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:18 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Although this may not be the coldest winter we've ever seen (and for some of you across the world, it may not be winter at all), December days still brought with them brisker days and longer nights in 2012. Even as the holidays come to a close, it may be that the chilliest days of winter are still ahead of us. While cold weather can often be miserable, many aspects of subzero days can be beautiful, too.
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| Twitter Suspends, Then Reactivates, Top Anonymous Account | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:02 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Twitter on Wednesday suspended @YourAnonNews, an Anonymous-affiliated account with 750,000 followers. The handlers behind the suspended account quickly migrated to @YANBackUp, which was set up for just this occasion: This account will remain dorment unless: 1. @youranonnews gets rate limited. 2. @youranonnews gets suspended. - From the #YAN team. — YANBackUp (@YANBackUp) December 5, 2012 Free speech is dead.
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| The 10 Worst People on the Internet in 2012 | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:41 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Five years ago, TIME magazine announced that you were its person of the year. Labeling the Internet a “cosmic compendium of knowledge,” the magazine cited your playlists on Myspace, false Wikipedia edits, and rewatching of the "OMG, Shoes" video on YouTube as the reason why you should be awarded the title.
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| 16 Things You Forgot Happened in 2012 | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| This has been quite the eventful year. What with the U.S. presidential election, Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath, the continued influence of social media in the Arab Spring and countless other major headlines, it's easy for smaller yet nonetheless significant news events to escape our memories.
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| Twitter Begins Rolling Out Downloadable Tweets to All Users | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:53 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Twitter confirmed Wednesday that it has begun rolling out the ability to download all of your tweets. "Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning," the company said in a blog post.
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