Hey Facebook, What About Our Privacy?

By Uri Estrin

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July 19, 2013 09:30 PM EDT

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Facebook has recently launched its graphic tools and this is exposing user's weak privacy settings spilling their content unwittingly back into the public domain. This article discussed Facebook's attitude to user privacy and how users react.

Grace Hopper once wrote that is was ?easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.? This seems to me to be the corporate mantra of Facebook Inc. And they've done it again with their new graphing feature.

When Facebook really started to take off back in the early 2000s privacy wasn't a concern or issue to either users or providers. This new style of sharing became the new normal and people were happy to post all sorts of private content on the web. That was until they figured out that everyone, stalkers and all, could gawk at their privates.

It took Facebook a long time to segment users into categories and there was a major obstacle to present some sort of security settings based on each group. The forced capitulation was quite simple ? user group pressure. Early Facebookers were the Millennials. They quickly worked out, after a few embarrassing moments, that they didn't want mom and dad to see the same postings, pictures and comments that they shared with their other 20-something friends or of greater severity where employers have terminated users based on their Facebooks postings. This was an obvious and necessary evolution.

Users then became quite adept as closing down their profiles so their admirers, strangers and prospective employers couldn't have a window into their life. But Facebook made this intentionally cumbersome and difficult to use and security around groups even more so. It's easy to understand Facebook's reluctance. Stalking, browsing and just glimpsing into friends of friends or voyeuristic peeks into total random strangers was not only fun, but keeping active users on the site.

But here's the thing Facebook, users always win ? always !! Internet users today are much much more savvy, particular and picky about where their content goes. Instagram, owned by Facebook, tried to dupe it's user with a bait & switch on it's terms of use, remember who won ? Those young Facebook users have already all but abandoned their profiles. They are using things like snapchat ? which protects your digitals. Even sharing one on one, they are ensuring those shared moments are just that, about 3 seconds. This is the new shelf life of openness and sharing.

It seems though that Facebook has learned nothing.

The recent introduction of its graphing tool is a throwback to the days of cyber-stalking. Content that users thought was private is all of a sudden searched and mined and available for all to consume. The user can shut this down through a myriad web of intricate security settings, but most are at this point completely oblivious. Wait until they find out.

It's not that Facebook is some Orwellian, terrible organization that is hated by all. On the contrary, Facebook has served as an incredible platform to connect the globe in a way that no other has yet managed to come even close to. But Facebook is so fixated on it's lackluster share price performance that it's forgetting who its core is ? its users. I'm not sure something is coming along to usurp Facebook, like Google+ or a revived MySpace, but I can tell you that users are going to start parking their content somewhere else, somewhere safe and they're going to ask for neither permission nor forgiveness.

Source: http://web2.sys-con.com/node/2742972

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Post on Facebook from iOS Mountain Lion

Ah! Gotcha. I never use the notification center. If I really want to look at Facebook, I use the browser. No sense doing in another app what I can already do in the other. Either way, you have an app running all the time, so why bother with the notification center?

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I've seen others report that they have trouble sharing, but click the Share link on any topic works for me. Couldn't tell you why it's not working for some.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5180855

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REPORT - EA holds license for non-exclusive college football games for three years

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Miles: Jeremy Hill remains indefinitely suspended

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) ? The LSU Tigers don't seem too concerned by the uncertainty of this offseason.

Coach Les Miles said Thursday that running back Jeremy Hill, last year's leading rusher, remains indefinitely suspended after being formally charged Monday with misdemeanor simple battery from a late April fight in a bar parking lot.

Meanwhile, the Tigers were picked to win the Southeastern Conference on only one of 243 media ballots released shortly before their SEC media days appearance. They're forecast to finish behind Alabama and Texas A&M in the West.

"Everybody usually enjoys being an underdog," quarterback Zach Mettenberger said. "I guess it gives them extra incentive to practice harder and play harder. But we are a team that could care less what the rankings are, especially in the preseason. It means absolutely nothing."

The Tigers lost to the Crimson Tide on a last-minute touchdown and beat the Aggies 24-19 last season.

Mettenberger also isn't sweating the possibility of playing without Hill for several games or even the season.

Miles said Hill has not been allowed in the football facility or to participate in team meetings or workouts this summer. He's waiting for resolution of the case before deciding on Hill's fate with the team.

"We've visited with Jeremy Hill on a routine basis," Miles said. "It's been very hard on him, I know.

"We recognize that there's an ongoing process that's going to be fulfilled. We're going to sit on the perimeter and watch. We certainly are respectful of all that have responsibility there."

Hill was already on probation after his January 2012 guilty plea to a misdemeanor stemming from his sexual relationship with a then-14-year-old girl at his high school. A state judge has put Hill under a daily curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

He ran for 755 yards and 12 touchdowns as a freshman. The Tigers won't be short on talent in the backfield even without Hill. Alfred Blue had 270 yards in three games before going down with a season-ending knee injury, and Kenny Hilliard has 800 yards and 14 touchdowns in two seasons.

"What happened to Jeremy is terrible and we wish all the best for him," Mettenberger said. "But if Alfred Blue didn't get hurt last year, a lot of people wouldn't know who Jeremy Hill was. He was put in a place where he had to play last year young, and he played very well.

"But having Alfred back and him being a senior, showing what he's capable of doing, is something that I'm going to enjoy watching him."

Running back Spencer Ware was among the school-record nine draft picks ? and 11 early departures ? including first-rounders Barkevious Mingo and Eric Reid. Safety Craig Loston thinks all those highly ranked recruiting classes leave LSU in good shape.

"I think we'll be fine," Loston said. "We always lose a couple of players to the NFL. We just keep rebuilding, and that's the thing about LSU. They recruit guys that can get the job done."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/miles-jeremy-hill-remains-indefinitely-suspended-164006438.html

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Japan team wraps up USDA meeting on GM wheat situation

By Ros Krasny

WASHINGTON | Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:59pm BST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese delegation is completing talks with the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at restarting purchases of U.S. western white wheat, which were halted after the discovery of an unapproved genetically modified strain growing in Oregon.

"USDA is hosting a team from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for technical discussions in support of the resumption of trade of U.S. western wheat," a USDA spokesman told Reuters.

Official talks are due to end on Wednesday, but the Japanese team will be in the United States until Saturday, USDA said, adding that it does not plan to provide further details.

U.S. merchants said a pickup in Asian demand helped the western white wheat market to gain this week, with prices higher at the Chicago Board of Trade. South Korea lifted its ban on U.S. imports this month, and Indonesia was a buyer, leaving Japan as the major holdout.

Japan, one of the world's largest and most consistent importers of wheat, has shunned the western white variety since USDA announced the GM discovery in late May.

Western white is the wheat variety used in Japan for cakes, cookies and other baked goods.

The Japanese delegation was expected to lay out in detail what they want to happen in the United States in order for imports of western white wheat to restart.

Japan wants USDA to test a composite sample of each western white shipment, and give shippers a letter that certifies the shipment has no GM wheat. Samples would also be sent to Japan for testing there, ahead of the arrival of vessels from the United States, according to industry officials there.

Reuters reported on July 8 that Japan hopes to restart the white wheat purchases as soon as August.

Japan continues to purchase other varieties of U.S. wheat at its regular tenders.

But its buyers are said to be eager to get the white wheat supply pipeline filled again before the peak import season in October and November, and to have enough flour on hand to bake the white cakes many Japanese traditionally eat at Christmas.

The wheat found in Oregon was a strain developed by Monsanto Co but never commercially available. Monsanto abandoned its GM wheat field trials in 2005, but stored the unapproved wheat in a Colorado facility at least until late 2011.

After a weeks-long investigation, USDA termed the Oregon wheat discovery "a single isolated incident" and said there was no indication so far that any biotech wheat was in the U.S. food chain.

(Additional reporting by James Topham in Tokyo; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/17/us-usa-wheat-japan-idUKBRE96G13220130717?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

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White House: 'Yeah,' Olympics boycott would be a bad idea

The White House grudgingly acknowledged on Wednesday that boycotting the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to protest Moscow?s sheltering of NSA leaker Edward Snowden would be a bad idea.

It?s not (or at least not just) a silly, media-stoked Beltway debate. The U.S. has been trying to escalate pressure on Russia to turn over Snowden, who faces felony charges tied to his disclosure of how the government collects the telephone and Internet records of millions of Americans.

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has urged President Barack Obama to consider boycotting the upcoming games in response.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner slapped the idea down sharply. But he doesn't speak for the president. So what did White House press secretary Jay Carney have to say?

?Our view is that we?re continuing to work with the Russian government and other nations on this matter, and we hope to see Mr. Snowden return to the United States,? Carney replied to the first of maybe five or six questions about a possible boycott.

But what about Graham?s suggestion?

?I?m not going to engage in speculation about that, and the Olympics are a long way off,? Carney said. ?We believe that we have a strong case and we have made that case to Russia.?

He added, ?We don?t want this matter to do harm to our bilateral relations. We have a very important and broad relationship with Russia that encompasses a great many areas of cooperation, as well as some areas of disagreement. ... This does not need to?and should not?do any harm to those relations.?

OK, so an Olympics boycott is not on the table?

?I didn?t suggest it was,? said Carney, who also had not suggested it wasn?t. ?I think speculation about, you know, what might happen if it's not resolved is certainly not helpful.?

The U.S. last shunned the games in 1980 in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year, one reporter noted. Surely the Snowden affair doesn?t rise to that level?

?I would refer you to the senator who, you know, sort of threw out that suggestion,? Carney said. ?We?re focused on trying to resolve this matter in a way that is in the interest of the United States and in the interest of U.S.-Russian relations.? (Note: Carney was still not explicitly saying that an Olympics boycott would be a bad idea, much less ruling one out.)

A few questions later, another reporter followed up on the Olympics issue.

?You guys aren?t jumping to a superficial headline, are you?? Carney asked with a slight grin.

Can we conclude that the president thinks it would be a bad idea to boycott the Olympics?

?Come on,? Carney said. ?A lawmaker put it out there. We?re not focused on that.?

So it?s a bad idea, right, the reporter asked.

?Yeah,? Carney said, finally. ?But it?s not one that is an issue right now, because we?re engaged with the Russians and other governments in helping bring about a positive resolution to this matter."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house---yeah---olympics-boycott-would-be-a-bad-idea-193417099.html

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