Facebook’s lukewarm IPO may not have created as many millionaires as hoped. But it’s cemented Mark Zuckerberg’s position as the richest man in American in the business of herding attention spans and siphoning personal details from human brains into corporate servers. Now that the dust has settled and Facebook has traded on NASDAQ for a day, it’s possible to gauge more precisely than ever before how much the company is worth, and with that number, how much of its value derives from its relationship with each of the 900 million people who visit the site on a regular basis, gaze at and click on its ads, and feed its databases with some of their most private bits of information: By my count, an average of ... Continue reading →
Please comment & "Like" us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ThankYou.Faceb00k.SongSeveral of our overseas friends have asked for the lyrics. Here they are:Thank you -- FB SongMusic by Deborah Torres Patel & Gianluca VerrengiaLyrics by Deborah Torres PatelRap lyrics by Deborah Torres Patel & Jeffery Anabaw-w-w. F-a-c-e-b-o-o-k. c-o-mFacebook -- (I wanna thank you)I wanna thank youFor bring-in' to meMy friends and familyFacebook -- (I wanna thank you)I wanna thank youFor bringin' to methe world community - yeah...Everyday - you lift me upWhen you notify meMakin' the news - when I shareWhat's goin' on with mePlay a game, app or chatAnd "Comment" when I please Stay in the loop or in a groupand "Like" what I see -- hey yeah Facebook -- (I wanna thank you)I wanna thank ... Continue reading →
These can now track you just as precisely as GPS, University of Pennsylvania prof Matt Blaze tells Congress. In the wake of a historic Supreme Court ruling that police can’t use GPS devices planted on a car to track suspects without a warrant, Congress is reconsidering the question of what kinds of location tracking constitute an invasion of privacy. And one privacy and computer security professor wants to remind them that the gadget we all carry in our pockets can track us more precisely than any device merely attached to our car–even without the use of GPS. On Thursday the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing to discuss a proposed bill to limit location tracking of electronic devices without a warrant, what it’s calling the ... Continue reading →
Majid Jamali Fashi, the executed Iranian kick-boxer who was incorrectly reported to be have been identified to the Iranian government by a WikiLeaks release. Since WikiLeaks first released its flood of classified State Department memos in December of 2010, the secret-spilling site’s critics have been searching for evidence that Julian Assange’s disregard for official secrecy would directly hurt some innocent bystander. On Wednesday, those critics seemed to have found their best evidence yet of that harm. Nevermind that the facts didn’t agree with them. In a story Wednesday morning, The Daily Mail headlined a story “WikiLeaks cable ‘led Iran to hang kick-boxer it claims was Israeli spy who assassinated nuclear scientist,’” a story that was soon picked up by other sites in Israel and around ... Continue reading →
Pathetic, moron, dumbass, any other words in your dictionary? And GMail is a bit off topic don't you think? When you say they're unable to read your actual IP, you mean your using a proxy, we used those in kindergarten to get onto Bubble Trouble in class. Whilst sipping tea of course! Also about being worthless I'm not too sure, Google seem to make use of everything they get. Any data is 'real data' for them, including "how to stop fancying your mom" searches from random IP's. vincent7487 in reply to temporalrant (Show the comment) 7 minutes ago Continue reading →
If the world’s largest surveillance agency has a working relationship with the world’s largest Internet firm, that’s no one’s business but theirs, according to an appeals court in the DC Circuit. In the ruling issued Friday, (PDF here ) the court decided that the National Security Agency doesn’t need to either confirm or deny its relationship with Google in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, ruling that a FOIA exemption covers any documents whose exposure might hinder the NSA’s national security mission. Beyond merely rejecting the FOIA request, the court has agreed with the NSA that it has the right to simply not respond to the request, as even a rejection of the request might ... Continue reading →
Brace yourselves, HBO. The pirates are coming. With its popularity swelling and no easy way to watch for viewers without cable, HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” is inspiring massive levels of piracy, according to numbers from the BitTorrent-tracking and analysis firm Big Champagne. By the firm’s rough estimate, the second season of the show has been downloaded more than 25 million times from public torrent trackers since it began in early April, and its piracy hit a new peak following April 30th’s episode, with more than 2.5 million downloads in a day. “It certainly appears to be the most pirated show of the year,” says John Robinson, a senior media analyst with Big Champagne. He says it’s too early to measure definitively, but the ... Continue reading →
Malcolm Harris, the Occupy Wall Street protestor whose private data Twitter is fighting to protect from prosecutors. Twitter is stepping up its legal battle for users’ privacy: First it fought to reveal secret warrantless law enforcement requests for its users’ data. Now it’s fighting to block one such request altogether. In a motion (PDF here) filed yesterday in a New York state court, Twitter asked a judge to block a subpoena that would force the company to turn over the data of Malcolm Harris, a participant in the Occupy Wall Street protests who was arrested in a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in October for “disorderly conduct.” The prosecutors in the case have sent Twitter what’s known as a 2703 order, which allows prosecutors to ... Continue reading →
