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...information between Facebook and its affiliates, users were previously unable to control which pieces of information were sent to their friends. Many users only became aware of the feature after Facebook began to broadcast holiday gifts and other personal purchases. Earlier this week, under pressure from online privacy activist groups and displeased users, Facebook altered the Beacon program so that information from affiliated sites would only by used if the user consented each time a purchase was made. In his apology this week, Zuckerberg stated that Facebook released a new “privacy control” allowing users...
...Town halls entail risk, of course, especially if you're addressing a motley crew that's a long way from the scrubbed and polite Rotarians. The candidate could get ambushed by an activist, a conspiracy theorist, someone who just wants to argue or even someone who has mistaken the open forum for group therapy. At a town hall focused on global climate change in Portsmouth, McCain called on a severely disabled man who identified himself as Greg. He brought one of McCain's books to sign, but his rambling preamble took a dramatic turn: He asked McCain if he should...
...laptop. The text messages were then projected onto the Millennium Art Museum. "I was tentative about putting up unsanctioned messages on buildings, because of the government," Notzold says. "There were your typical radio shout-outs, and there were also some statements that could be kind of activist protest statements." The event took place without incident...
...Some of the blame for our activist thrombosis belongs to former University President Derek C. Bok, a man so loquaciously conciliatory that he could stall a thousand ships with a single monologue. Former University President Neil Rudenstine wasn’t much more exciting, but boy could he raise money. And then there was Larry...
...with our general political disengagement, in fact, that they took to drastic measures: no less an act of protest than an “Open Letter to President Drew Faust.” What would we need to do to prove our political activist to these children of the 1960s—occupy Mass Hall? Honestly, the only building most students seem interested in occupying these days is the Queen’s Head. But there’s at least one undergrad who is deeply and sincerely engaged. Yes, Bennett C. Braddock...