What will happen to your Google data when you die? Now you can decide
Inactive Account Manager: After a Google User Dies, A Will for Their Google Data
This feels relevant to my interests.
Source: Laughing Squid
Today, humans create more data in just two days than was created in all of history up until the year 2003. - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_ceo_schmidt_people_arent_ready_for_the_tech.php
Judge rules Twitter must turn over data on arrested Occupy protestor
In May, Twitter sought to quash a subpoena for Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris’s tweets, location, and other data over a 90-day period flanking his October 1st arrest for disorderly conduct on the Brooklyn Bridge. On Saturday, Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. upheld an earlier ruling that Harris himself had no standing to contest the subpoena, ruled that Harris had no expectation of privacy in a public tweet, and denied Twitter’s claim that the subpoena constituted an unreasonable burden on the company.
In short, only Twitter can fight a criminal court subpoena for user information, and for most requests for once-public information, the company will be expected by the court to hand it over. Unlike a privately sent email, “[t]here can be no reasonable expectation of privacy in a tweet sent around the world,” writes Judge Sciarrino Jr.
Sciarrino also makes it clear that in his opinion, the logic and implications of the ruling are not limited to Twitter alone, but all forms of social media.
It’s not the first time Twitter fought against giving away its users’ data in court.
Prepare to be throttled
I realize I’m a little late picking up on this but I guess starting October 1, ATT is going to “throttle” the Internet speed for customers still on the unlimited data plan…like me. It’s their way of showing their appreciation for being a loyal customer for the past 3+ years, I guess. Bear in mind that for me, I was effectively throttled for two years, living in an area that didn’t have 3G service until the first of this year. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Companies sure have strange ways of treating people nowadays, it seems. (I’m thinking of you too Netflix.)
From - arstechnica.com
Mike
