Perhaps Facebook is
listening, probably they don't think many users will do this. I
would guess far less than 1 percent.
Tim Mayr reports:
At
its annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday,
social network Facebook unveiled a new ‘anonymous login’ feature
which will give users greater power and more control over their
personal data online.
Announcing
the anonymous login feature at the conference, Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg said that the feature will forbid apps or websites from
collecting personal information of the users as facebook members
signup using their facebook account.
Read
more on Austrian
Tribune.
An interesting
perspective.
Zack Needles reports:
Holding
that telephones are expressly exempt from the devices prohibited by
the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act
regardless of how they’re used, the state Supreme Court has ruled
that a state trooper did not violate the act when he instructed an
informant to set up a drug deal with the defendant on speakerphone
and then eavesdropped on the conversation.
In
Commonwealth v. Spence, the court unanimously reversed a
state Superior Court decision that had affirmed a Delaware County
trial judge’s ruling suppressing evidence obtained when the trooper
listened in on the phone call.
Read more on The
Legal Intelligencer.
Perhaps they could
automate the process?
Michael Geist writes:
Every
27 seconds. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day,
week after week, month after month. Canadian telecommunications
providers, who collect massive amounts of data about their
subscribers, are asked to disclose basic subscriber information to
Canadian law enforcement agencies every 27 seconds. In 2011, that
added up to 1,193,630 requests. Given the volume, most likely do not
involve a warrant or court oversight (2010 RCMP data showed 94% of
requests involving customer name and address information was provided
voluntarily without a warrant).
In
most warrantless cases, the telecommunications companies were
entitled to say no. The law says that telecom companies and Internet
providers may disclose personal information without a warrant as part
of a lawful investigation or they can withhold the information until
law enforcement has obtained a warrant. According to newly released
information, three telecom providers alone disclosed information from
785,000 customer accounts in 2011, suggesting that the actual totals
were much higher. Moreover, virtually all providers sought
compensation for complying with the requests.
Read more on Michael
Geist.
For the student's “Very
Basic” toolkit.
– is a site which
gives you every possible piece of information about your system.
This can be something as simple as your IP address, to more complex
stats such as hardware, network and broadband speeds. However, some
features are browser-specific.
For my students who
write. (Yes, all of them)
New
on LLRX – Fargo Brings An Outliner to Your Browser
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on April 30, 2014
Via LLRX.com
- Fargo
Brings An Outliner to Your Browser - Elmer
Masters explains the pragmatic as well as technological value of
Dave Winer’s new full featured outliner, Fargo. Fargo runs in your
web browser and stores your data in your Dropbox folder. According
to Masters, this combination of browser and cloud puts the outliner
everywhere, making it a good choice for anyone looking for ubiquitous
note taking and writing capabilities. That includes just about all
of us!
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