On Thursday April 18, 2013, U.S. House of Representatives gave CISPA the approval and it now is going to the U.S. Senate for approval.
The fight to defeat CISPA is now on the Senate floor. Do your part to defeat this bill.
Readers, WordPress and Copyright Troll.
Disclosure:
We are running a WordPress.org installation at 37prime and also have a WordPress.com blog.
Techdirt reports that Prenda Law has just ordered WordPress to hand over all IP addresses of users who accessed either FightCopyrightTrolls and DieTrollDie in the last two years.
It seems that Prenda Law is going on a fishing expedition. At least that’s what I think based on all the Law & Order series (the Original, Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent) I have been watching for the past 15 years. Yeah, I watch too many of them.
Can Prenda Law legally subpoena WordPress for the iP addresses? Prenda Law first must convince the court that they have the legal right to do so.
WordPress should fight this ridiculously frivolous legal move.
Downgrade from Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/1/downgrade/
Chain of Credits:
Rob Griffiths as featured by the bearded one (Jim Dalrymple)
There’s no need to have Google+ just because you have a Gmail account.
Opt out of AT&T and Verizon from selling your personal informations.
From AT&T Customer Proprietary Network Information or CPNI page:
AT&T companies that provide telecommunications and interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service (which permits VoIP customers to both send and receive calls to/from customers with traditional telephone/telecommunications service) would like to share your customer proprietary network information within the AT&T family of companies for our own marketing purposes, including using that information to offer you additional products and services.
You can opt out of this service by going to www.att.com/ecpnioptout.
If you’re Verizon customer, you can also opt out.
It is unclear if iPad users on Verizon are affected by this. Verizon would not allow users to register iPad on My Verizon. Verizon requires user to register to My Verizon before they can review their privacy settings.
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CoC:
Path updates iOS App, address book upload is now opt-in.
The headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
Path‘s response: We are sorry
We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
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In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to service@path.com and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.
Path iOS App version 2.0.6 now warns users before uploading the content of Address Book.
That’s a proper response from Path.
Goodbye Path, for now.
The headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
The reactions: Delete Path from iPhone (iOS device)
Email service@path.com and request to delete your Address Book data from Path servers.
Hi (First Name of Path User),
Thanks for getting in touch with us! I have erased your contacts and their information from our servers.
On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our current release of Path for Android requests permission to access your address book. In the next iOS release, we will have this same permission request added.
Until the update is released for iOS, selecting “Add Friends” will display the names of contacts that you have stored on your phone. But now that you’ve opted out of contact uploading, we will never re-store this data on our servers.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you. I’m more than happy to address any further questions or concerns that you may have.
Best,
(First Name of Path Service Personnel)
That’s simple enough.
All Private Google Profiles to be deleted for Google+ sake.
UPDATE:
Clarifications from Google:
If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.
That’s more like it. I’ve deleted my personal Google Profile anyway.
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Search Engine Land reported that Google+ Profiles Will Be Public: Google To Terminate All Private Profiles After July 31st.
Good move, Google. I just remembered to delete my Google Profile, the personal one. I do have a different account that has no personal information other than my professional experience.
Let’s take a look at part of my to-do-list:
- Delete Facebook Profile – done
- Delete personal Google Profile – done
- Not joining Google+ – done
What’s next Google? What about fending off Microsoft from threatening manufacturers over Android and Chrome?