Kim Arlington reports: In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute. The federal magistrate who made the order, Stewart Brown, said…
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Google to Give Governments Street View Data
Google is bowing to the demands of three European governments and says it will begin surrendering the data it improperly collected over unsecured wireless networks. Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told The Financial Times in an interview in London that within the next two days, the company would share the data with regulators in…
In: Census sans information: People refuse to divulge personal details
After the initial `hiccups’, there’s more trouble headed towards census operations in Uttar Pradesh. First, the districts had to grapple with shortage of hands to conduct the house-listing survey, and now, officials are having to deal with resistance from citizens. In Lucknow, along with other districts of the state, census workers are having a tough…
Google is “close” to handing over German wi-fi data
Search giant Google has said it is “close” to resolving issues that have prevented it from passing a hard disk of data to German authorities. The disk contains wi-fi data Google Street View cars gathered by mistake. Pressure to make the data available has been increased by the German regional Information Commissioner that started the…