Rose Hackman reports: Critics say the NYPD’s trawling of social media for gang activity – affecting children as young as 10 – is disproportionate and may amount to racial profiling. Read more on Raw Story. Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.
Category: Online
Hong Kong’s ‘name and shame’ litter campaign
Aza Wee Sile reports: Think twice before you litter in Hong Kong, which has resorted to naming and shaming in an effort to clean up the city on Global Earth day. “The Face of Litter”, a city-wide campaign launched by global marketing communications firm Ogilvy & Mather, uses DNA testing on litter to construct a…
Hadeed Carpet Cleaning’s Quest to Identify Anonymous Yelp Reviewers Is Stymied – at Least for Now
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen writes: I have blogged several times (for example here and here) about the efforts of Hadeed Carpet Cleaning to compel Yelp to comply with a Virginia subpoena to identify seven consumers who posted critical reviews on Yelp. Our principal concern about the subpoenas was Hadeed did not claim that the gist of…
Facebook DOES collect the text you decided against posting
It may be somewhat old news, but still noteworthy. Several weeks ago, Ben Rossi reported: Facebook collects all content that is typed into its website, even if it is not posted, a tech consultant has discovered. In December 2013, it was reported that Facebook plants code in browsers that returns metadata every time somebody types out a…