Christian Zibreg writes: Wednesday’s launch of The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-exclusive newspaper, brought changes to the iTunes terms of service that accommodate in-app subscriptions, a new feature utilized by News Corp.’s digital publication. The Daily is a free iPad download, but accessing its content requires a one-time payment of forty bucks for a year’s worth of access. Alternatively,…
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Ranking People Search Websites: How rank are they?
I’ve been on a bit of tear recently about aggregators and data brokers after discovering that profiles I had deleted from Spokeo.com had seemingly reappeared. I am still in communications with Spokeo.com, which is why I haven’t published any update on my complaint yet, but hope to be able to blog more about it in…
With privacy issues waning, RFID begins ramp up
Joe Pleshek reports: The Item Level RFID Initiative held its latest meeting in early January during the National Retail Federation’s annual convention in New York. The Item Level RFID Initiative consists of major retailers, suppliers, and technology providers who have banned together to accelerate the use of item level RFID tagging in the apparel supply chain….
‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission
Ryan Singel reports: How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched LovelyFaces.com this week, with profiles — names, locations and photos — scraped from…