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Six Delusions Of Google’s Arrogant Leaders
2:44AM Ryan Tate | Google’s CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonised about Google’s exceptional virtue – its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been shocking. Except that delusional self-righteousness is now routine at Google. More »
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Creepy Apple Wants Control Of Your House, Wallet
4:27AM Ryan Tate | In addition to to providing your digital music, movies and “print” media, Apple would also like to be the gateway to your home and bank account. Meet the iKey, the invention that lets Steve Jobs mediate your most private spaces. More »
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5:49AM Ryan Tate | Here’s a cache of the private messages misdirected by Facebook last week, messages about sex and divorce, devotion and infidelity, cancer and rubdowns. Messages underlining how deeply digital networks run through our lives, and how important online privacy has become. More »
13 Intimate Facebook Messages You Weren’t Supposed To See
5:49AM Ryan Tate | Here’s a cache of the private messages misdirected by Facebook last week, messages about sex and divorce, devotion and infidelity, cancer and rubdowns. Messages underlining how deeply digital networks run through our lives, and how important online privacy has become. More »
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The New Sexy Facebook Messages That Will Be Read In A Bar
6:03AM Ryan Tate | When Facebook misdirected hundreds of messages last week, the private communications didn’t just end up selectively quoted in the Wall Street Journal: A Gotham pub will host a reading of fresh notes called “Can I Lick Your Face.” Samples below. More »
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Facebook Glitch Sends Sex Chat To Wall Street Journal
9:34AM Ryan Tate | Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an “explicit chat” to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that’s bad. More »
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Google Execs Are Now Italian Outlaws
4:20AM Ryan Tate | Googlers are gobsmacked that an Italian court found three company executives guilty of violating Italy’s privacy laws over a video uploaded to Google Video. After all, the company quickly removed the video, of an autistic student being bullied, in 2006. More »
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Steve Jobs Tries To Cover Up Apple’s Racial Profile
10:54AM Ryan Tate | Apple and Google are among a handful of tech companies who fought to hide the race and gender of their workforce from newspaper reporters. And no wonder: Their diversity probably went from bad to worse. More »
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Norwegians With Pitchforks Attack Google Street View
7:32PM Maureen OConnor | Will finding humorous moments on Google Street View ever get old? No. Never. Here is a most perplexing image of men dressed in scuba gear, chasing Google Street View with ad hoc weapons. [Google via Reddit]
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Don’t Trust Facebook With Your Data: An Employee’s Revelations
6:34AM Ryan Tate | The abuse of private data by Facebook employees was pretty much inevitable; the simple act of amassing data tends to lead to corruption. What’s sad is how lightly the social network reportedly controls its employees. More »
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