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I was notified today that a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook today for their Beacon program. The defendants in the suit are Facebook and advertisers who used their Beacon program such as Blockbuster, Fandango, Hotwire, Overstock, Zappos, Gamefly, and 40 "doe" corporations. Earlier this year, Binary Freedom helped lead a successful campaign to stop Beacon. In the end, several advertisers dropped Beacon due to public pressure. The Beacon program was a clear violation of Facebook's privacy policy and automatically shared user information with advertisers as well as telling a user's friends on facebook what they were looking at/buying online. This obviously has huge privacy implications.
How can people in the US complain about human rights violations in other
countries when the US violates the biggest ones? The U.S. uses the death
penalty, prison or often assasination for political dissidents,
sanctuary for anti left wing terrorists and in some cases Nazis, atomic
bomb proliferation, atomic bomb use and killing of massive amounts of
civilians, free speech "zones", the necessity of permits for a protest
or getting arrested for "disturbing the peace" or getting called and
arrested as a terrorist for being a political dissident. Every revolt
is punished and retaliated with a brutal amount of police(military)
force. So yes you have a freedom as long you do not exercise it against
the wrong people. Now we have the dictatorship of the corporations,
waging their biases on the Internet just like they do with mass media
and TV and basically anything that you can buy.
But private corporations are like small dictator ships at a level of
modern feudalism, were each CEO/CTO are the kings of their empire and in
their land they do what they please, all living under the protection of
I finally cancelled my Yahoo account this week mainly because I never used it and also because it would just be one less entry about me in a database. After I cancelled it, I got a confirmation email stating that my account data would be deleted in 90 days. I think this is normal for an online business and they are honest about their data retention policies, unlike Google whose privacy policy says that they can collect any information they want and use it any way they want. The scary part about Yahoo's email to me however, was the data retention on Premium Yahoo Finance accounts.
** This is only a notification. You do NOT need to respond. **
This email is to confirm that your Yahoo! account, "[removed]"
has been recently terminated per your request. Your account
has been deactivated and will be deleted from our user registration
database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to
discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity. To satisfy
terms agreed to in the Yahoo! Finance Terms of Service, personal
From: here
Will American society continue to exclude ordinary citizens from important choices about the design and development of new technologies and information systems? Most likely there will continue to be unequal power over decisions about what is built and why, intensive efforts to hem in and control people?s lives in both work and consumerism, and present our future as something nonnegotiable.
Businesses will demonstrate accomplishment in what could and should be choices only to be decided by public investigation and debate - a disguised form of economic plunder. They conceal their strategy by designs that appeal to individual gratification which complicate social issues. Those with the understanding of what is happening must choose to protest or at least inform groups willing to take action on behalf of the community.
[edit] Professional
[edit] Hobbies and things that I like
[edit] Links
- Rebelion.org
- Kaos En La Red
- Morning Star UK
- Democratic Socialist Party Boston
- Democratic Socialist Party Massachusetts
- Democratic socialist Party USA
- Democratic Socialist of America
- La Guerra civil en Madrid
- El enemigo comun
- World Socialist
- Starbucks IWW union
- Students for a democratic Society SDS
- Movement for a democratic Society MDS
[edit] Videos
For a full list of my favorite videos visit: http://es.youtube.com/rek2
- Homage to the Republican Fighters in the Spanish Civil War
- La internacional en Izquierda unida
- La internacional por la tercera republica
- Hijos del Pueblo - Himno Anarquista
- A las barricadas
- A las barricadas en la fiesta de la republica
- Socialismo del siglo XXI
- El pueblo unido! jamas sera vencido!
- No Pasaran!! el pueblo de Madrid frena a los miltares fascistas
- NO Pasaran!!
- Boikot-NoPasaran Zapatistas
- The Weather Underground
- Call to stop imperialism 2007
- US Imperialism
- US Imperialism 2
- The Right Wing brains wash game by Roy Eidelson is a psychologist who studies, writes about, and consults on the role of psychological issues in political, organizational, and group conflict settings.
- Land and Freedom The movie Trailer
- Stop the War Video
- Por que somos anarquistas?
[edit] Independent Media
[edit] Music
[edit] Poems
| DEFENSA DE MADRID,DEFENSA DE CATALUÑA | ¡ALERTA LOS MADRILEÑOS! |
|---|---|
Madrid, corazón de España, |
Pueblo de Madrid valiente, |