Facebook Expands ‘Big Brother’ Automatic Face Recognition to Europe
June 10, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) Facebook, the immensely popular social media phenomenon, raised howls from European privacy watchdogs by expanding its new facial recognition feature beyond North America. The feature, which is enabled by default, attempts during the “tagging” process to match faces in uploaded photographs to user profiles. The technology, which is currently ill-equipped to cope [...]
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Holds June 5th Money Bomb Fundraising Day
June 5, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian doctor who has sought for more than thirty years to heal the federal government of much of what ails it, has scheduled another “money-bomb” for today, June 5 2011. Paul, a Republican from Texas, is making his third attempt at the presidency. The congressman had conducted a [...]
Online Advertising Industry Expands Sharply In U.S.; Print Newspapers Continue Decline
June 3, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) As advertising revenues for print newspapers fell for the twentieth consecutive quarter, dropping another 9.5 percent to a record low of $4.75 billion, advertiser placements on the Internet rose sharply. A report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) claimed that Web advertising revenues for the first quarter of 2011 were 23 percent [...]
California Lawmakers Push Bill to Tax Online Retailers; Amazon To Discontinue Affiliate Relationships
June 3, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) Scrambling to close the yawning budget deficit facing California, the state Assembly approved Tuesday a bill that would force Amazon and other Internet retailers with a significant presence in the state to collect and remit use and sales taxes. This would include online merchants that have sister companies working from offices physically [...]
Google Gmail Users Targeted by Overseas Criminal Hackers
June 2, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) Certain customers of Google’s free Gmail email services were singled out over several months for “human engineering” attacks by unknown elements apparently operating primarily from Jinan, an Eastern Chinese provincial capital. These elements conducted a “phishing” campaign against dissident Chinese activists, prominent journalists, senior government officials in the United States, other officials [...]
Meet Marriah Greene: Unborn Child Gets Facebook Social Networking Profile
June 2, 2011
(Agoura Hills, C.A.) Marriah Greene is one of more than 5 million children under the age of 10 with a Facebook account in defiance of the company’s requirement that all people signing up with the site be at least 13 years of age. However, she is quite unique in one respect: she may very well [...]
