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Jeff Fox is the technology editor at Consumer Reports magazine. He has been covering technology, cyberspace, and privacy for 17 years. He was one of the first reporters to break the story of privacy violations by Web ad agency DoubleClick ("Is your computer spying on you?" Consumer Reports, 1997). Since 2004 he has edited the annual Consumer Reports “State of the Net” investigative report.

Prior to joining Consumer Reports, Mr. Fox was president of Fox & Geller, a nationally recognized publisher of personal computer software. He has an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism, an MS in Information Science from Harvard University, and a BE in Engineering Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Blog Entries by Jeff Fox

It's Time for Facebook to Grow Up

Posted May 10, 2011 | 12:21:00 (EST)

"Facebook has evolved from a simple dorm-room project," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote, after a firestorm erupted last year over the social network's data-sharing policies. Yet, one year later, Facebook still seems to be run like a dorm-room project, particularly if you consider how ineffectively it discharges its...

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Why Facebook Users Need Protection

Posted May 4, 2010 | 15:25:52 (EST)

Senator Charles Schumer's request last week that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provide guidelines for online social networks' use of private information is well founded. Although the millions of consumers who use services like Facebook consider them free, they do exact a cost -- the loss of control over one's...

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