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The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private. (more)

Ken Savage’s marriage already was strained, but the first sign that something was egregiously, electronically wrong came a year and a half ago, when his wife started taking her laptop into a different room to check Facebook. (more)

Call it civic duty or patriotic pride, Hollywood is no stranger to showing support for the red, white and blue. Actors and filmmakers alike have produced films about protecting and defending our country against everything from terrorists to aliens to giant astroids. Whether based on real-life leaders or leaders created by a screenwriter’s imagination, some of screen’s heaviest hitters have taken their turn portraying the President of the United States. But who served the office best? Our faves are: (more)

Victoria Espinel, the nation’s first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, last week delivered to Congress a strong National IP Enforcement Strategy that will help create jobs, revitalize our economy, and spur innovation. It promises to do this by protecting the intellectual property rights of America’s innovators and creators, and the tens of million of jobs that depend on IP. (more)

The United States has remained a world leader in the global market when it comes to innovation and intellectual property. From the latest in life-saving medicines, to the iPad, to brake pads, the United States’ economy revolves significantly around businesses related to intellectual property. It is intellectual property that drives this economy to the tune of $5 trillion, accounting for half of all U.S. exports, and employing nearly 18 million workers. (more)

Internet company AOL has sold Bebo, the social networking site it bought two years ago for $850m (then £417m). (more)

When Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a “Like” button that publishers could place on their Web pages, he predicted it would make the Web smarter and “more social.” (more)

Before the explosion of social media, Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer in Maine, dug up dirt on his client’s spouses the old-fashioned way: with private investigators and subpoenas. Now the first place his team checks for evidence is Facebook. (more)

Facebook has revealed it will implementing new privacy options from today. (more)

It sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut with more than 400 million members and a $15 billion valuation. (more)

One of the challenges for the newest generation is how to gain fluency in online networking without being able to draw on large, diverse social networks of their own. Today, Togetherville announced the open beta launch of a new online community for kids and their caretakers. The site brings parents into the same virtual space as their children to help them mentor kids to be good digital citizens. (more)

Pakistan’s government ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook on Wednesday amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (more)

On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, lifted the curtain on the company’s plan to spread itself across the Web. I previewed much of the company’s plan in a New York Times article on Monday. It includes a number of new features for users and developers that will make it easy for Web sites to provide “social experiences.” And it will allow users to bring some of their interactions with Facebook friends to the sites they visit. (more)

Suing your parents isn’t just for celebrities anymore–a 16-year-old Arkansas boy is suing his mother for hacking into his Facebook account and allegedly posting slanderous remarks. (more)

A German official has called upon Facebook Inc. to improve its privacy settings. (more)

Facebook, thanks to its 400 million status-updating, link-sharing, asparagus-farming, party picture-posting denizens, has risen to the top of the Internet heap once again, surpassing — at least according to one ranking — search giant Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) in total U.S. visitors for the third time this year. (more)

The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document. (more)

Social networking company Facebook said on Monday that it is setting up an office in Hyderabad in southern India. The new office will have online sales and operations teams, said Don Faul, a director of global online operations at Facebook, in a posting on the official Facebook blog. (more)

Dear Matt, we’ve never met. However, you’ve thrown down the gauntlet by branding yourself as a Facebook hater. As someone who spends a great deal of time explaining the worth of social media and as a general lover of all things digital, Facebook haters are a personal challenge of mine. I could start by starting a “Get Matt Labash on Facebook” fan page to prove to you my skill at viral messaging, but that would fall into the category of insipid ways to use Facebook and might unintentionally give you the impression that the Facebook community needs you. You seem intelligent, so I will try a different tactic. I will explain to you why Facebook matters. (more)

Most everyone in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street agrees: The eventual IPO of social-networking site Facebook could make its founder the world’s richest twenty-something. (more)