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Comment Look at others (Score 1) 292

by AzTechGuy on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @03:58PM (#29888161) Attached to: Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead

Jodi Arias is accused of Killing Travis Alexander in Arizona. Both have myspace pages. Jodi is in jail awaiting trial and has not logged in since her arrest, however, someone logged into Travis's account 2 months after he was killed. Maybe he is not dead and she is innocent? :) No one has marked his page indicating his status. Who the heck would remove it if no one tells myspace? That girl is nutz, just watch her interview.

Submission + - Coach sued for requesting Facebook logins (eschoolnews.com)

Submitted by AzTechGuy on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @04:10PM

AzTechGuy writes: Do you think that Educators have a right to access student's social networking sites?

"Two years ago, Mandi Jackson, a cheerleader at Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss., and the other members of the cheering squad were asked by cheerleading coach Tommie Hill to give her their Facebook login passwords. According to reports, Hill wanted the passwords to check and make sure none of the squad members were drinking or participating in any illegal behavior."

"Jackson and her mother, Missy Jackson, are seeking $100 million from Hill and the high school for what the suit claims are violations of Jackson's right to privacy and freedom of speech."

Submission + - UBS to divulge more than 4,000 account names (msn.com)

Submitted by AzTechGuy on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @11:20AM

AzTechGuy writes: I myself is slightly torn with this issue. I agree these individuals need to pay taxes on their assets, but I also feel that a breach of my privacy is not the way to get this information.

Swiss banking giant UBS AG agreed Wednesday to turn over to the IRS the details of 4,450 accounts suspected of holding undeclared assets by American customers, ending an intense trans-Atlantic legal fight

Submission + - Palm Pre sending private info to palm?

Submitted by AzTechGuy on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:47PM

AzTechGuy writes: Several article appeared today concerning the Palm Pre sending your GPS coordinates and more back to the Palm on a daily basis? Mobile application developer Joey Hess states in his blog that he has discovered that is what is happening. Palm's response... "Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers users ways to turn data collecting services on and off". Shouldn't they have it default to off and offer a way to turn it on?

Submission + - Can IT Turn Around Teacher Turnover? (thejournal.com)

Submitted by AzTechGuy on Thursday July 05, 2007 @10:07PM

AzTechGuy writes: Teacher turnover (also known as teachers quitting their jobs) is becoming a critical concern for school and district administrators. Not only can it have a negative impact on student learning, especially in troubled districts, but it's emerging as a fairly major financial drain on districts in all regions, according to a recent study released by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). So is there anything school and district technology leaders can do about it?

Submission + - Keepin' it real fake, part LX: iPhone clone on vid (engadget.com)

Submitted by

AzTechGuy

on Friday June 22, 2007 @10:17AM

AzTechGuy writes: "While the days remaining until the legitimate iPhone launches in the US, Chinese knockoff factories have spoiled the unboxing fun.

In the video, watch it when it shuts down, iPhone reads as tPhone."

Comment Re:This is fubar (Score 1) 246

by AzTechGuy on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @02:56PM (#19312279) Attached to: Storing Personal Music Online Is Illegal In Japan

In my opinion, every ISP would be guilty of this, if you lived in Japan.

Many people I know have uploaded at least one song to their web space somewhere. Without the ISP's knowing, they are guilty as well.

So yes, this is fubar

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