Canada’s privacy commissioner reported Thursday that to comply with Canadian privacy laws, Facebook has agreed to make changes to better protect users’ personal information on the social networking site within oneone year.
12 million Canadians use Facebook, and Canadian officials had been negotiating with representatives of the site since an Office of the Privacy Commissioner report [...]
Everyone knows there’s no shortage of malicious activity on the internet.If you believe the hype, cyberspace is actually dominated by it. The question everyone needs answered, is how to avoid it. Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it well in advance.
This new technique builds [...]
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Facebook is officially running out of time to find a way of living up to Canada’s privacy law. After the country’s privacy watchdog gave the social-networking website one month to close its “serious privacy gaps,” the tech world has been awaiting their response. If Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner, isn’t completely satisfied with Facebook’s final [...]
Digsby, the popular instant messenger client has been accused of bundling. Apparently, the program installs 6 “optional” and unneccessary applications during a typical install.
There are many popular freeware applications that bundle crapware into their setup files, prompting you during the installation process to install something you didn’t sign up for—like the Yahoo/Ask.com/SomeRandomCompany browser toolbar. Experienced users may consider [...]
On Tuesday, Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois signed new laws designed to limit sex offenders’ use of technology as a way to find more victims. Taking effect Jan. 1, the most high profile of the laws is one that makes it a felony for registered sex offenders to use social networking sites like Facebook and [...]
Sony PC customers who’ve forked over nearly $2,000 on a new Vaio laptop should let go of hopes of running Microsoft’s XP virtualization technology in Windows 7. The consumer electronics giant has released a statement that it will enable Intel’s Virtual Technology (VT), which supports Windows XP Mode in the forthcoming Windows 7, only on [...]
Reportedly, during Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s time on Apple’s board of directors, the two companies honored an unwritten agreement not to hire away each other’s workers. This agreement was considered non-official, but it was well-known and followed within the recruitment division of Google and Apple.
Again, all this deal stated was that Google would not go [...]
Yesterday, Intel confirmed that its new consumer-class X25-M and X18-M solid state-disk drives (SSDs) have serious data corruption issues and told the press that it has halted all shipments to resellers. The brand new line of X25-M (2.5-inch) and X18-M (1.8-inch) SSDs were inspired by a joint venture with Micron and utilized that company’s 34-nanometer lithography technology. Micron uses a process which allows for a denser, [...]
A FOSS computer consultant living in the UK recently wrote about Amazon UK honoring his request for a refund of the Microsoft license fee portion of the cost of a new Asus netbook PC, which came with Microsoft Windows XP pre-installed. Alan Lord details the steps he took in obtaining a refund of 40.00 GBP [...]
