Marshall Kirkpatrick reports: MySpace has taken a bold step and allowed a large quantity of bulk user data to be put up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and zipcodes. Friend lists are not included. Remember, Facebook and Twitter…
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Bacteria Trail Betrays Identity Of Computer Users
Thomas Claburn reports that now our bacteria can compromise our privacy: Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found that the bacteria trail left behind on objects like computer keyboards and mice can analyzed and used to help identify users of those devices. “Your body is coated with bacteria inside and out,” says…
EFF to Court: Block Unmasking of Anonymous Online Critic
EFF has gotten involved in a case that has been covered previously on this site. Their press release: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online…
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing report: Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the…