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[ NNSquad ] FB Facial Recog under fire in Germany / Dating sites sell profiles / New MPEG standard
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FB Facial Recog under fire in Germany / Dating sites sell profiles / New MPEG standard
http://j.mp/R2kMv8 (ars technica)
"German data protection officials today accused Facebook of "illegally
compiling a vast photo database of users without their consent" and
demanded that the social network destroy its archive of files based on
facial recognition technology, the New York Times reported."
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Is Your Dating Site Selling Your Profile? To Keep Membership High, Niche Sites Get Sly
http://j.mp/R2kOD7 (BetaBeat)
"SaleDatingProfiles and its competitors BuyProfiles.com and
DatingProfilesSale.com offer a shortcut. They sell bulk packages of
profiles that seem to include a fair number of actual singles
alongside somewhat more questionable Russian beauties, Nigerian
bankers and half-empty profiles, which sometimes sell for less than a
dime a dozen."
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New MPEG standard halves video bandwidth with no quality loss
http://j.mp/SncsDf (ITWire)
"The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has produced a draft standard
for a new video-compression format that delivers the same video
quality in half the bandwidth of the current H.264 standard."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
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- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
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