Following Facebook’s announcement today about its new location-based product, Places, here’s what the ACLU of Northern California has to say on the privacy front: Facebook made some changes to its ...

Facebook Places allows users to check-in to locations using a mobile phone, much like Foursquare, Gowalla, or Yelp. But up until recently the feature was only available in a handful of countries ...

Facebook recently added a new feature that allows users to take advantage of location-based postings. So great—corporate brands are benefiting from the emphasis on location. But how can you use ...

When Facebook launched its Places feature last year, which allowed users of the social network to announce their location to friends, Chris Cox, a top executive there, waxed rhapsodic about what it ...

Facebook has just released an updated version of its iPhone app which adds the ability to check in to events. Whereas previously, the app only allows you to check in via Facebook Places, the new ...

Marketers, specifically multi-location retailers and franchise organizations, were recently confronted with a new Facebook-marketing reality. What was once a relatively "top down" process of managing ...

Every time Facebook introduces a new feature it initiates a game of cat-and-mouse with its users when privacy holes are opened up and the user is left to close them. It comes as no surprise, then, ...

Facebook has jumped into the location sharing pool with its new recently-announced “Places” feature. The feature is available from within the Facebook iPhone app or at touch.facebook.com from any ...

Can They Maintain? Adrianne Jeffries at ReadWriteWeb echoes Siegler: "That likely means upwards of 18,000 people signed up for the location-based social network, probably buoyed by a glowing article ...

While the ACLU of Northern California and Facebook both agree that location information is very sensitive, we disagree that Places gives users adequate control of how and when to share this ...