Rapleaf

Again Facebook is in the news for a privacy breach, but this time the culprits were top-ranked apps, including Farmville, Texas HoldEm Poker and Frontierville, which leaked Facebook users' personal IDs to advertisers. Personal IDs can be linked to a wealth of other information -- including name,...

According to a data mining company, the old adage of being judged by the friends you keep translates easily into the digital friends you keep. Rapleaf, a social media monitoring company, claims that by analyzing public information such as the friends you have on Twitter it can assess how...