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Technology Review: Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet
published 272 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 273 days, 6 hours, 1 minute ago
Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:18:07 PM GMT Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:46:51 AM GMT
Technology Review: Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet
To arrive at their conclusions, the researchers evaluated 45 social-networking sites from all over the world, looking at more than 200 criteria related to privacy policies and privacy controls. Although social-networking sites have often been criticized as a group for their privacy practices, the researchers say that they found a lot of variation in quality. Using criteria such as the amount of data collected during sign up, the default privacy settings, and whether information is routinely shared with thir... (more)
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Move to Electronic System Means Long Waits at U.S. Copyright Office - washingtonpost.com
published 294 days, 23 hours ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 295 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes ago
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:48:11 PM GMT Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:01:27 AM GMT
Move to Electronic System Means Long Waits at U.S. Copyright Office - washingtonpost.com
The envelopes fill white plastic tubs, stacked on hundreds of shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress. They're spreading to a ground-floor space that once housed the gift shop and are clogging offices on the fourth floor. And each day, the mail trucks bring about a thousand more. A serious logjam in the U.S. Copyright Office has created a growing mountain of paper applications, more than the staff can process. Like the marching buckets of water in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," the envelopes just ... (more)
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Companies Object to Google Policy on Trademarks
published 297 days, 7 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by DonDeaDonDea 299 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes ago
Monday, May 18, 2009 6:15:11 AM GMT Saturday, May 16, 2009 7:30:44 AM GMT
Companies Object to Google Policy on Trademarks
NYTimes:Home - Site Index - Archive - Help When Audrey Spangenberg idly typed “FirePond,” the name of her small software company, into Google this year, she was not happy with what she saw. Her company’s site came up as the top search listing. But just above it, Google showed the ads of competitors that had paid Google to display their marketing messages whenever someone searched for FirePond, a registered trademark. “I was furious,” said Ms. Spangenberg, chief executive of FPX, which does business as Fir... (more)
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Changing the Tax Code Will Harm Charities
published 330 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes ago posted by BrianGleberBrianGleber 334 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes ago
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:29:10 AM GMT Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:43:36 AM GMT
Changing the Tax Code Will Harm Charities
The Obama Administration is proposing changes to the tax code that will cap the deduction for charitable gifts at 28%. The theory is that lower income people pay 28% marginal taxes, and their charitable giving saves them 28%. High income people pay 36% marginal taxes, so their gifts save 36%. Since the savings is greater, this is unfair to poor people, so the logic goes. But the question is less about fairness to poor people and more about the fairness to charities. (more)
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