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FaceBook Again!

July 29, 2009 pochp 2 comments

It’s Facebook again! And this time, Smith’s wife’s picture was cracked to ‘hot singles’ ad:

‘Imagine Peter Smith’s surprise when an ad for “hot singles” on Facebook featured a picture of … his wife. The site blames that flap on a third-party company violating policy, but the incident underscores Facebook’s notoriously unclear privacy settings, writes Bob Sullivan for MSNBC: “A hard-to-spot toggle switch grants the firm, by default, permission to use consumers’ information in advertisements to their friends.”

‘Though a Facebook rep insists this particular setting wouldn’t have saved Smith’s wife from the “rogue” developer who stole her picture, the snafu is yet another entry in the site’s “long and tortured history of attempting highly targeted advertising by mining data and usage habits from users,” and highlights “why consumers need to focus extra attention on privacy settings for all free sites they use.”’ Evann Gastaldo Source: MSNBC

I have already posted a piece about the dangers of putting personal pictures on the Net.

Dr. Murray’s Las Vegas Office Raided Too

July 29, 2009 pochp 2 comments

‘DEA agents and police raided the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray this morning after a raid last week on his Houston office, Fox News reports. Murray is a suspect in the manslaughter investigation of Jackson’s death; the warrant served last week called for “property or items constituting evidence … that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense.”
—Matt Cantor SOURCE: Fox News

In another article, It was reported that Dr. Murray left unattended Jackson’s IV-drip when he fell asleep.