From Facebook's help page on the privacy/security settings update: Some settings are changing with the recent updates to Facebook privacy, but Facebook’s commitment to providing you control over your information is not. Here’s a summary of what’s changing: Providing me control over my info...Well, let's just see, shall we? The Privacy page has been simplified, and in that process, some settings have been consolidated. For security reasons, you will now be required to enter your password if you’d like to update your privacy settings. Huh. Simplified & consolidated - nice way to say "we rearranged the screen and got rid of some of those ...
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The Fox is Guarding the Hen-house
Friday, December 4th, 2009From a research paper published by some Berkeley researchers: The Obama Administration is considering whether to change policy concerning the use of HTTP cookies on government websites. Currently, government officials require a “compelling need” to use persistent HTTP cookies, and must disclose their use in a privacy policy. In light of this we arbitrarily chose six government websites to determine whether Flash was being used to assign unique values to visitors. Of the 6 government sites we tested, 3 had Flash cookies. Three were set by whitehouse.gov, one of which was labeled, “userId.” Five of these sites used persistent HTTP cookies. Whitehouse.gov disclosed ...
Biologist or bloodhound?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Yesterday, there was a big gizzard shad die-off in Cherry Creek in Denver, and the Colorado Divison of Wildlife, with their usual intelligence and wisdom, declared it to be a natural event based on the color and smell of the water: "The color looks fine. We don't smell anything in the water," DOW District Wildlife Manager Vicki Vargas-Madrid said. And another DOW rep had this to say: A major fish kill that occurred in Cherry Creek in downtown Denver today was a "natural occurring event," according to Jennifer Churchill of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The fish that died were young gizzard shad, which ...