AJC reports: … According to a report by the Financial Times, some of the top credit rating companies are now using people’s social media accounts to assess their ability to repay debt. So if you want to be able to qualify for a loan and borrow money, this is just another reason to avoid saying certain things on Facebook….
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Spanish Supreme Court Ruling on the “Right to Be Forgotten:” Hidden but Indelible Data
Sofia Fontanals and Samara Schaar write: On 15th October 2015 the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its first ruling[1] on the so-called digital “right to be forgotten” in which it states that harmful information affecting individuals without public relevance should not be accessible to Internet search engines when the news has lost relevance over time. The…
Data mining Instagram feeds can point to teenage drinking patterns
From the University of Rochester: Instagram could offer a novel way of monitoring the drinking habits of teenagers. Using photos and text from Instagram, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester has shown that this data can not only expose patterns of underage drinking more cheaply and faster than conventional surveys, but also…
James Woods Not Allowed To Find Out Name Of Guy Who Called Him A Cocaine Addict On Twitter
From the sometimes-the-courts-get-it-right dept Mike Masnick writes: Over the summer, we wrote about a positively ridiculous lawsuit filed by the actor James Woods, who apparently took offense to an obviously hyperbolic tweet, calling him a “cocaine addict.” Woods felt that such a joke tweet deserved a $10 million lawsuit. The anonymous Twitter user hooked up with…