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Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook ‘Beacon’ Accord
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook’s program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. The case concerned allegations Facebook’s now defunct “Beacon” program breached federal wiretap and video-rental privacy laws . Terms of the settlement, in which Facebook denied any wrongdoing, require the site to finance what the deal calls a “Digital Trust Fund” that would issue more than $6 million in grants to organizations to study online privacy.
Continue reading »White House Cyber Czar: “There is No Cyberwar”
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the U.S. is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyber war,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
Continue reading »Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists
The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. The U.S.
Continue reading »White House embraces e-book readers
Perhaps you’ve been wanting to curl up with a digital copy of the annual Economic Report of the President, but the thought of reading a 400-page PDF on your laptop has kept you away. “If only the White House would release the report in a native format for my e-book reader!” you cry. Those cries have now been heard, as the White House on Friday put up the new Economic Report of the President in three formats: PDF, Amazon Kindle, and an ePub file designed for readers like Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Reader.
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