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Facebook.com founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg issued a public apology Wednesday morning following a volley of complaints brought on by the new Facebook Beacon advertising feature, announcing that users can now choose to disable the program. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,” Zuckerberg, formerly a member of the class of 2006, posted on The Facebook Blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize...
...Melinda Vaughn, a spokeswoman for the law school. The first database contained the Social Security numbers of about 1,400 potential applicants who requested information from the law school admissions office. The second database held contact information including home addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, as well as user-generated passwords, for an additional 1,800 people who had already submitted applications. Duke officials are uncertain whether the electronic intruder actually acquired the compromised data, but the admissions office has contacted people affected, warning them of the security breach. In one such e-mail sent Tuesday, William J. Hoye...
...devaluing expert opinions through our reliance on user-created content such as Wikipedia or blogs? Luca Zanzi, ALLSTON, MASS., U.S. In a way, yes. The Internet is still a very dangerous weapon. It can serve for defense, or it can blow up in your hands and produce disasters...
...other things Facebook members do. If you choose to tell your friends about the Seinfeld DVD box set you just bought from Amazon, for example, your friends will also get a small ad right beneath that update. Advertisers can specify, on the basis of demographic data culled from a user's profile, exactly which members they want to view...
There are no explicit limits to how many articles a user can download, Petersen said, but Factiva reserves the discretion to terminate a contract at will...