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When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? | Nita Farahany

Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk, Farahany warns of a ( Read more... )

Flickr to delete millions of photos as it reduces allowance for free users

Photo-sharing site to limit free storage to 1,000 images as part of revamp under new owners
Flickr is to delete millions of photos from the internet, as its new owners attempt to sustain the photo-sharing site  after its purchase from Yahoo earlier this year.

Free users of ( Read more... )

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How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy | Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an average ( Read more... )

A note la: There were complaints about that recent ONION post about McCain wanting his ashes shot into Iraq, ( you saw it here).  I think that is the reason why the ONION is now making fun of John Lennon's death - just to appear fair.  (Great JL pic there, though ( Read more... )