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Social media sites such as Facebook did not revolutionise the way Americans shopped over Christmas, a major annual study has found. Only nine per cent of the 1,000 people polled in the Baynote study purchased something via a retailer’s page on Facebook. While 59 per cent of Americans bought a gift directly from a retailers’ website.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/9014067/Social-networks-fail-to-dictate-Christmas-shopping-behaviour.htmlSocial media sites such as Facebook did not revolutionise the way Americans shopped... more
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Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.
Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s own definition of personal identifiable information, or PII, such data could consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.” Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency.
Also included in the roster of those subjected to the spying are government officials, domestic or not, who make public statements, private sector employees that do the same and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest,” which to itself opens up the possibilities even wider.
The department says that they will only scour publically-made info available while retaining data, but it doesn’t help but raise suspicion as to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses.
The development out of the DHS comes at the same time that U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady denied pleas from supporters of WikiLeaks who had tried to prevent account information pertaining to their Twitter accounts from being provided to federal prosecutors. Jacob Applebaum and others advocates of Julian Assange’s whistleblower site were fighting to keep the government from subpoenaing information on their personal accounts that were collected from Twitter.
Last month the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney subpoenaed Twitter over details pertaining to recent tweets involving the Occupy Boston protests.
The website Fast Company reports that the intel collected by the Department of Homeland Security under the NOC Monitoring Initiative has been happening since as early as 2010 and the data is being shared with both private sector businesses and international third parties.
http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321/Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the... more
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Personal data being gathered on the worldwide web means bigger profits for the private sector and is also being shared with the police, argues Steve Rambam, founder and CEO of Pallorium Inc., an international online investigative service.
At a time when electronic gadgets and hi-tech innovations dominate our lives, violating privacy and mining people’s personal data is easier than ever. The damage that this 24-hour surveillance could do to society and its freedoms is overwhelming.
By using computers to access the worldwide web, people unwittingly reveal large amounts of personal information.
“Your location, your likes, your dislikes, your religion, your sexual orientation, how you vote, where you live, who your friends are, who your family is, what music you listen to, what books you read – all these things are a window into your soul,” acknowledges Steve Rambam.
The truth is, people care less and less about privacy and the majority of data being compiled on each of us today is self-contributed, argues Rambam.
Today you can find out everything you need to know about a person for free by going to their Facebook page. Just a few years ago, this kind of information would have cost you no less than $10,000. The same applies to all social networks.
Rambam’s sinister revelations have not put him off having his own social network profile. However, he says, “I post just enough to let people know that I’m alive – possibly once a month.”
Rambam says he is “very careful to have all location ware programs turned off so it does not re-plot where I physically am at the moment.”
WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange once told RT that the American social networks provide personal information to secret services on request, and Steve Rambam says the reality is even more brutal.
“They do not need to provide anything – it is right there.”
Law enforcement simply goes online to check Facebook pages, Twitter or YouTube feeds – all without the need for permission or authorization.
Still, the investigator says, “All of these sites do co-operate with law enforcement – and I think they should.”
At the top of Rambam’s list of online data prospectors is the popular search engine, Google.
“Google in fact has a relationship with the CIA and a very close relation with the NSI, Google has a back door that is made available to the secret service and to the FBI. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but it is something people should be aware of,” explains Rambam.
The investigator himself says his Pallorium Company would never provide any data it has to anyone but law enforcement or licensed private investigators.
Companies like Facebook, Google or MySpace are “aggregating data on each of us bit by bit and before you know it, your entire life is on a disk.”
For example, Facebook is valuable because it provides information about your contacts and friends and by defining who your friends are, it is possible to get closer to what person you are, believes Steve Rambam.
Information is constantly being added to people’s profiles because they do not stop to think about the ramifications of posting crucial details about their lives, the investigator argues.
But it was probably the creation of the cellphone that opened the floodgates, he says, naming the device as “the greatest invasion of privacy,” because by tracking the phone it is possible to get practically any information, opening an individual’s entire life.
Steve Rambam is absolutely sure that if the databases had been properly analyzed in a timely manner, 9/11 would not have happened. This is because some of the hijackers were known to CIA while the others could easily have been linked through shared friends, credit cards, flights, phone calls, etc.
The key fact about data aggregating is that it is not the government that collects information on citizens – it is private industry that does so, simply because “your eyeballs are worth money.” They want to know the maximum about you “to sell you stuff.”
“This is pure, naked capitalism,” concludes Rambam.
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The article about the battle between new social networking GooglePlus and Facebook. Advantages and disadvantages of both social networkingThe article about the battle between new social networking GooglePlus and Facebook.... more
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Goldman Sachs giveth, and Goldman Sachs taketh away. The firm made waves last week by offering its wealthiest U.S. clients a crack at shares of web superstar Facebook. The $1.5 billion private sale of stock valued the social network at $50 billion.
link: http://www.observer.com/2011/media/what-really-spooked-facebook-goldman-dealGoldman Sachs giveth, and Goldman Sachs taketh away. The firm made waves last week by... more
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By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, the group announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities.
In a statement, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other supporters, including the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of handing classified information to the site and a high-profile Icelandic parliamentarian.
WikiLeaks blasted the court order, saying it amounted to harassment.
"If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out," Assange said in the statement.
A copy of the court order, dated Dec. 14 and posted to Salon.com, said the information sought was "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation" and ordered Twitter not to disclose its existence to Assange or any of the others targeted.
The order was unsealed "thanks to legal action by Twitter," WikiLeaks said.
Twitter has declined comment on the claim, saying only that its policy is to notify its users, where possible, of government requests for information.
Others named in the order include Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of WikiLeaks' material, as well as Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic lawmaker and one-time WikiLeaks collaborator known for her role in pioneering Iceland's media initiative - which aims to make the North Atlantic island nation a haven for free speech.
The U.S. is also seeking details about Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp and U.S. programmer Jacob Appelbaum, both of whom have previously worked with WikiLeaks.
Assange has promised to fight the order, as has Jonsdottir, who said in a Twitter message that she had "no intention to hand my information over willingly." Appelbaum, whose Twitter feed suggested he was traveling in Iceland, said he was apprehensive about returning to the U.S.
"Time to try to enjoy the last of my vacation, I suppose," he tweeted.
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Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- U.S. officials have issued a... more
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WikiLeaks' Twitter account details have been subpoenaed by U.S. officials, the secret-spilling site announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being asked to hand over information about its activities.
In an e-mail statement, WikiLeaks said that U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of founder Julian Assange and others linked to WikiLeaks - including the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of handing classified information to the site and a high-profile Icelandic parliamentarian.
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/ap/International/78318WikiLeaks' Twitter account details have been subpoenaed by U.S. officials, the... more
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Earlier this week, Facebook was granted a broad patent on mobile location-based social networks. It seems to cover everything from members of a social network sharing their location with each other through their mobile phones to manual checkins. In other words, it sounds like Facebook just patented Foursquare’s main product.
The application was submitted in February, 2007, well before Foursquare was even founded. But it forgot to mention one thing. In the long list of more than 50...Earlier this week, Facebook was granted a broad patent on mobile location-based... more
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10 Harmful Health Myths
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By Susan Sulich Posted February 02, 2010 from Woman's Day; February 17, 201010 Harmful Health Myths
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It is awesome how Internet media is chagin people life. A couple of years ago was a little bit hard to keep in touch with your favorites music, movie, sports, political stars; today it is real and more than often.
I invite you to joing any social network and try to get an answer fro your favorite star, be creative and original because this post will be readed for a bunch of "3rd parties". Once you do it, we wll talk!It is awesome how Internet media is chagin people life. A couple of years ago was a... more
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