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Submission + - SF Bay Area City Blocks 5G Antennas Over Health Issues (businesstimes.cn)

Submitted by Hkibtimes
Hkibtimes writes: While many are aware that Bay Area is the center of the global technology industry, this does not stop them from protecting themselves from the future.

The city council of Mill Valley has voted unanimously late last week. This small town can be found a few miles north of San Francisco and their said decision was done to effectively block the deployments of small-cell 5G wireless towers in the residential areas of the city.The source revealed as well that the restrictions and prohibitions will be instantly executed for all the upcoming applications to site 5G telecommunications equipment in the city. After all, the urgency ordinance allows the city council to enact regulations right away, especially if it affects the health and safety of the community. On the other hand, the applications for commercial districts are allowed under the passed ordinance.

Submission + - Facebook Forced To Block 20K Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After Pepsi Sues (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There is a rumor that Kurkure, a corn puff product developed by the company in India, is made of plastic. The conspiracy theory naturally thrived online, where people posted mocking videos and posts questioning whether the snack contained plastic. In response, PepsiCo obtained an interim order from the Delhi High Court to block all references to this conspiracy theory online in the country, MediaNama reports. Hundreds of posts claiming that Kurkure contains plastic have already been blocked across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, according to LiveMint, and the court order requires social networks to continue to block such posts. According to MediaNama, PepsiCo petitioned for 3412 Facebook links, 20244 Facebook posts, 242 YouTube videos, six Instagram links, and 562 tweets to be removed, a request the court has granted. PepsiCo’s argument is that these rumors are untrue and defame the brand—though it’s evident that a number of the posts are satirical in tone, poking fun at the rumor rather than earnestly trying to spread misinformation.
China

Submission + - Anonymous China: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced (ibtimes.com) 1

Submitted by Hkibtimes
Hkibtimes writes: The Anonymous hacking collective has landed in China, home of some of the most tightly controlled internet access in the world, and defaced hundreds of government websites in what appears to be a massive online operation against Beijing.

Anonymous listed its intended institutional targets on Pastebin and has now attacked them.
Privacy

Submission + - FBI Tries to Force Google to Unlock User's Android Phone (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Those multi-gesture passcode locks on Android phones that give users (and their spouses) fits apparently present quite a challenge for the FBI as well. Frustrated by a swipe passcode on the seized phone of an alleged gang leader, FBI officials have requested a search warrant that would force Google to "provide law enforcement with any and all means of gaining access, including login and password information, password reset, and/or manufacturer default code ("PUK"), in order to obtain the complete contents of the memory of cellular telephone".

The request is part of a case involving an alleged gang leader and human trafficker named Dante Dears in California. Dears served several years in prison for his role in founding a gang in California called PhD, and upon his release he went back to his activities with the gang, according to the FBI's affidavit.
Privacy

Submission + - The Privacy Richter Scale 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Jay Cline writes that not all privacy issues are created equal and proposes a privacy Richter scale to rank the bad things that could happen to our privacy. A privacy Richter 1 or 2 event is a temporary bad turn for you or a handful of people, but nothing systemic, posing no lasting harm to individuals or society as a whole. Examples include receiving someone else's mail, having someone expose something embarrassing about you to co-workers or friends, or losing your wallet or purse. Privacy events measuring 4 to 7 on the scale are risks that can cause real and lasting damage to a lot of people and include stolen laptops containing thousands of Social Security numbers and credit-card numbers that would allow identity thieves to make fraudulent transactions that could impact credit scores for years. Finally events topping 8 are points of no return for large numbers of people and society as a whole. DARPA's Total Information Awareness program, proposed in 2002 and defunded by Congress in 2003, would have topped the scale. "The massive collection of data about U.S. citizens could have created a perpetual bureaucracy that put at risk our right of due process and protection against unlawful search and seizure." So where does Google's plan to consolidate its 60 privacy policies into a single approach rank? "The current change ranks at a 3," writes Cline. "Larry Page's company will weather this change. I don't see irreparable or lasting harm or loss of liberty. If you don't like Google, use Bing. Don't watch weird things on YouTube. You shouldn't be sending confidential things through Gmail in the first place.""
Wine

Submission + - Wine 1.4 Released (winehq.org)

Submitted by vinn
vinn writes: Wine 1.4 was released today and includes support for a wide range of applications, including Office 2010. There are some major architectural changes, including a built-in DIB engine for better graphics display and a new audio stack designed around the newer Vista / Win 7 system and integrated into the native audio system. Almost every other subsystem received substantial updates, including Direct3D, the Gecko-based web browsing components, and better internationalization. The release notes contain more detail and you can download the source code now, or wait for packages to appear soon.
Australia

Submission + - Australia's Telstra requires fibre customers to use copper telephone (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Progress is happening rapidly in Australia, with the country's government continuing to roll out a nation-wide fibre network. However, the country's major telco Telstra doesn't appear to have quite gotten the message. Releasing its first National Broadband Network fibre broadband plans today, the telco stipulated that fibre customers will still be forced to make phone calls over the telco's existing copper network. Yup, that's right — fibre to people's houses, but phone calls over the copper network. Progress.
Government

Submission + - FCC chair calls on ISPs to adopt new security measures (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyberattacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genachowski called on ISPs to notify subscribers whose computers are infected with malware and tied to a botnet and to develop a code of conduct to combat botnets. Genachowski also called on ISPs to adopt secure routing standards to protect against Internet Protocol hijacking and to implement DNSSEC, a suite of security tools for the Internet's Domain Name System.
NASA

Submission + - Unique Map Shows Height of Earth's Forests (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes
Hkibtimes writes: A group of scientists from NASA and the University of Maryland have created a unique map that shows the heights of the Earth's forests. The map, supposedly an accurate and high-resolution reading, has been created using 2.5 million carefully screened and globally distributed laser pulse measurements sent from space.

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