Archive for the ‘privacy’ Category
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property.Read ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A couple of hours earlier, I had purchased tickets to see Dark Knight at the Fandango Web site - Fandango.com. Fandango - not associated with Facebook. Yet, Fandango shared the details of my credit card transaction with Facebook. They did this despite the fact that I gave Fandango my personal ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I have mixed feelings about this. The Times plays up the positive crime-fighting side of this - but it will only be a matter of time before it falls into the wrong hands and is exploited by criminals or the government. No one should think that Apple won't build something ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Wow that the government now has the ability to detect radiation in a cat inside a car going by at 70 miles per hour. And wow at this world we live in, where we feel compelled to sniff, at random, inside the traffic coming out of Bellingham. What else ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
The creator of the file says he compiled the photos earlier this month using the MySpace security hole that Wired News reported on last week. That hole, still unacknowledged by the News Corporation-owned site, allowed voyeurs to peek inside the photo galleries of some MySpace users who had set their ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms "have a reasonable expectation of privacy."Read the full story
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Facebook isn't just for people anymore. Facebook launched profile pages for businesses today:
Just like a Facebook user, businesses can start with a blank canvas and add all the information and content they want, including photos, videos, music and Facebook Platform applications. Outside developers have created a range of applications to ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Click on an ad in Facebook and your friends might see it in your profile feed. Read the full story
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network's profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company's CEO said Wednesday.
That Facebook doesn't let them do this today is "a flaw in the system" and something ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Facebook calls these pages "public search listings" -- basically it means that someone who isn't a member of Facebook can now see a small bit of Facebook members' pages. And not only can people do this: So too can Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. Soon, what you do on ...
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