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coastal984 writes:
Yahoo! launched their latest redesign over the past couple of weeks, revamping their utilitarian Yahoo! Sports section with a new-age, modernized look, which features a much darker, graphical background, and light, larger text. Only problem is, the sports buffs that frequented Yahoo! Sports loved the basic, easy to read and comprehend presentation that the old site used (Which was a predominately plain white background, and smaller, dark text. Thousands of users took to Yahoo's uservoice page to express their discontent, begging for the old design back. How will Marissa Mayer and her team respond to the swell of negative criticism, if at all?
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coastal984 writes:
The ACLU is questioning the usage and retention of data by the Virginia State Police and various local police agencies in the Commonwealth as part of a 35-state inquiry into license plate scanners.
"ACLU chapters in 35 states announced Monday that they are querying law enforcement agencies through Freedom of Information Act requests about how they are using the scanning technology and about the extent to which the information may be used to compile "movement histories" of people. "Automatic license plate readers make it possible for the police to track our location whenever we drive our cars and to store that information forever," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.
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coastal984 writes:
Facebook, the college (and now, high school & professional) networking site originally started as a small, one school site which has expanded to nearly every college and university in the United States, launched changes to their web site this morning, provoking a massive and immediate response, and not the one they had hoped. Hundreds of "Groups" formed, the largest of which have between 2,000 and 15,000 members, and sites like this student portal have put up pages detesting the recent changes. What do the college members not like? Alot of things, but the main issue is the new "News Feed" on every page which tracks recent changes, activities, and comments made by everyone the user is connected to, such as a change in a users relationship status.
