What is the cost of Free or Free is not free « IPrivacy4IT – Cla. T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger data loss is bad for the cloud. If you're a Sidekick user who has been waiting out the past week's data outage in hopes of a happy ending, you're not going to like the joint press release that Microsoft and T-Mobile put out on the matter this past Saturday. The release contains a line that no service provider ever wants to see in print with their name attached to it: "Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device—such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos—that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.
" Ouch. Any of your data that's on Microsoft's servers is just gone, and the only possible backup of it is whatever's cached in your device's local memory—so do not allow your device to lose power, T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger warn in the press release's headline, or you'll never see your data again. Google LBC: We’re Sorry, human error | Understanding Google Maps. Update 01/07/10: Elaine Filadelfo from Google’s Global Communications & Public Affairs office, has just forwarded me the following communication: Hi Mike, I know you’ve been covering the newsletter mix-up. Wanted to make sure you’ve got the latest statement/explanation: As you know, we send a monthly newsletter to our Local Business Center users, featuring product news and a glimpse at statistics about the traffic Google properties drive to their listing (coming from the LBC dashboard, akin to Google Trends data for business owners).
Shortly after sending the newsletter to a small portion of our users (less than 1%) last night, we discovered that some emails included incorrect business listing information. We promptly stopped sending any further emails and investigated the cause, which we found to be a human error while pulling together the newsletter content. Also — we put an update in our Help Center in response to some questions as well:Help Forum Response Elaine.
Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night. Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage. Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks. The Internet giant said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi data from its StreetView vans, which workers drive to capture street images and to locate Wi-Fi networks. The company said it would dispose of the data it had accidentally collected. Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research for Google, wrote in a blog post that the company uncovered the mistake while responding to a German data-protection agency's request for it to audit the Wi-Fi data, amid mounting concerns that Google's practices violated users' privacy.
Google had previously said it was collecting the location of Wi-Fi hot spots from its StreetView vehicles, but not the information being transmitted over those networks by users. Email Addresses Briefly Made Public on Facebook - Facebook - Lif. Not-free from growmap.com. When most companies – and especially corporations – provide extremely desirable and advanced services without charging you it is definitely NOT out of the goodness of their hearts. You can be assured that there is always a profit motive – always. That is a given – the obvious truth; what is not so obvious is what the means of generating profit is. In the past, the most common way the cost of anything we receive that is free in theory has been paid for is by advertising.
Magazines and newspapers subsidize the cost of subscriptions with advertising. Local free publications provide the end user with a free copy which is actually paid for the ads they contain. Free to you; paid for by the advertiser. Profit is one thing; freedom is another. The majority of humans are quick to judge, easily swayed, and lack understanding of common logic faults. Here is a real life examples of assumptions of guilt made: Jumping to conclusions is highly dangerous to our liberty.
Know of any others? Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published. 29 July 2010Last updated at 01:37 By Daniel Emery Technology reporter, BBC News The torrent is attracting hundreds of downloads Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings. The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.
Mr Bowes said he published the data to highlight privacy issues, but Facebook said it was already public information. The file has spread rapidly across the net. On the Pirate Bay, the world's biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users. One user, going by the name of lusifer69, described the list as "awesome and a little terrifying". In a statement to BBC News, Facebook said that the information in the list was already freely available online.