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Feed New York Times: Seattle Man Pleads Guilty to ID Theft (nytimes.com)
A man charged with stealing information over file-sharing networks in order to commit identity theft pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court in Seattle.
Feed New York Times: Are Facebook’s Social Ads Illegal? (nytimes.com)
A 100-year-old law in New York State bans the use of a person’s name and likeness for advertising purposes without permission. That may be what Facebook’s new Social Ads system does.
Feed Wired: Study Confirms That iPhone Violates California's Toxics Law (wired.com)
Submission + - FTC Crackdown Continues for DNC Violators (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Previously, the FTC announced $7.7 million in penalties for violations of the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry. However one company and its owner are being specifically targeted. The FTC has filed a complaint against Global Mortgage Funding and Damian Robert Kutzner in federal court.
The FTC alleges that Global Mortgage Funding and its officer, Damian Robert Kutzner, made "hundreds of thousands of calls" to consumers on the DNC Registry in addition to failing to provide required caller ID information. They have also failed to pay DNC Registry fees, and have abandoned calls when consumers answered the phone. The FTC says that the vote authorizing the complaint, to be pursued by the DoJ, was unanimous at five to zero.
Feed New Scientist: Mars's tiny moons - one small step for mankind? (pheedo.com)
With 0.1% of Earth's gravity, the Red Planet's potato-shaped moons Phobos and Deimos could be easy landing targets for a human mission
Submission + - Former AMD employee sues for birth defects
An anonymous reader writes: A former employee has sued AMD for allegedly exposing her to chemicals that caused severe birth defects in her son. Maria Ruiz and her now 16-year-old son Ryan, both of Austin, filed the suit against AMD, claiming that her exposure to glycol ethers and acetates in the company's Fab 14 manufacturing plant caused her son to be born with a brain injury, a missing right arm below his elbow and cognitive deficits. They are suing for an unspecified amount of money.
Feed news.com: Automating Red Hat and a major shift in IT (cnet.com)
Red Hat just changed the game for everyone: partners, customers, and competitors.
Feed news.com: Bumps on the road to Microsoft's Surface (news.com)
The software maker doesn't expect early partners to have their units up and running until spring. It had hoped they would be ready before year's end.
Feed news.com: MySpace attack uses background images not iframes (news.com)
Researcher Roger Thompson has found a new way for Web 2.0 to be attacked.
Feed news.com: Wave power prototype sinks in the sea (news.com)
The AquaBuoy goes to Davy Jones' Locker. Not the best news for wave power proponents.
Submission + - Livejournal extends censorship to linked content (livejournal.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many of you might remember the previous story about Livejournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from right-wing group Warriors for innocence. Since then, they've been taking action against users hosting material on their servers that they believe to be illegal. Today, Livejournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works, declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries. A user points out the obvious flaw; "I get ToS'd because the link's been redirected to a page full o' porn, even though context clearly shows that when I originally put up the link that it didn't actually land on a page of porn?".
One wonders how such a long-established blogging company be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web?
Submission + - Lack of Privacy for Medical Records (pogowasright.org)
anasciiman writes: "The privacy of medical records has been a topic which receives very little press. Your medical records are at risk because there is currently no law or regulation which outlines how your medical records can be used or transported. Indeed, there is no clear direction given as to who can or should see your records at all. We explore here how to fix that situation."
