Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused social-networking service for the 160 million users of its iTunes service. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, promised the company would include straightforward and simple privacy controls….
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Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge
This will tickle some readers’ irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an…
Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now – and potentially much more later – to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district’s webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to…
India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype
Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be…