IN A deal with “U.S. national security authorities,” tech giants Facebook and Microsoft have an agreement with the Obama administration that allows modest transparency. Google is still negotiating with the U.S. Government, with talks getting stuck on an agreement of “a combined figure for all requests.” It’s an ignominious development for the most powerful brands [...]
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Allying with Sen. Rand Paul to Take on Obama’s Snooping [Video]
“I’m going to challenge this at the Supreme Court.” – Senator Rand Paul NOTHING inspires libertarians to act out more than a federal government overstepping its authority, with Sen. Rand Paul making quite a statement on Fox News Sunday. I wrote the other day that President Obama’s invasive, extra-constitutional, anti civil liberties snooping was igniting [...]
Greenwald: NSA Mining Data from Google, Facebook, Apple…
Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still keeping secret [...]
Facebook Responds After Hate Speech Campaign
THE ACTION from Facebook came as Women, Action & the Media (WAM) demanded the social media giant do something about the hate speech on their platform. Claiming over “60,000 tweets and 5000 emails,” the coalition allied “100 women’s movement and social justice organizations” to take on Facebook policy. Buzzfeed has a compilation of violent photos [...]
Mark Zuckerberg Backs Keystone XL, Facebook Bans Anti-KXL Campaign
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and FWD.us (political action group) founder, supports the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. And when a CREDO petition calling on Zuckerberg to pull support for ads promoting KXL appeared on Facebook, that CREDO effort was removed, apparently for use of Zuckerberg’s photo. From CREDO: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg started a new [...]
Searching the Web Shifts Away from Google
FOLLOWING web trends is a fascinating prospect. Over 17 years of writing on the Internet, I’ve watched the web shift and dip and twist many times. It’s doing it again (and it won’t stop here). From Buzzfeed, an interesting look at what’s happening now. BuzzFeed tracked traffic referrals to over 200 publishers in the BuzzFeed [...]
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Doubles Maternity Leave
Mayer’s move also comes amid a broader debate in America about the country’s commitment to family leave. The United States, which hasn’t updated its Family and Medical Leave Act in 20 years, ranks among the worst of all developed countries. Sweden, Denmark Russian mothers get at least a year off paid and Canadian mothers get [...]
So Long, Facebook… *Update*
UPDATE APRIL 14: …I’m back on Facebook, page restored. [BUMPED FROM MARCH 20 - original post below] VERY INTERESTING… Last week this site got hacked, malicious intent clear. Lots of other weirdness in my tech world ensued. …including that I was suddenly locked out of Facebook. Now it appears that my Facebook page that’s been [...]
Top Techs Act on Immigration Reform
With a bipartisan group of senators expected to unveil immigration-reform legislation in the next few days, a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans – including eight-in-10 Latinos – support giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. – [NBC FirstRead] THE RELEASE of the latest polling on immigration reform comes [...]
Tiger Woods 2.0: The Big Win, A New Love, and Beating the “Stalk-a-Razzi”
‘Winning Takes Care Of Everything’ was the tagline placed on an image of Tiger the day after he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and regained the #1 world golf ranking. It immediately created a firestorm of social and traditional media blowback, given the obvious interpretations related to Woods’ off the course scandal and very messy [...]
Same-Sex Marriage at the Supreme Court Today, as Virginia’s Mark Warner and Mark Begich of Alaska Join Claire McCaskill
The first of two days of oral arguments over what supporters call marriage equality brings the boldest of the claims that gay rights activists will make — that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage that states may not deny. [Washington Post] TODAY IS the day same-sex marriage will be argued at the Supreme [...]
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Women and Success, with Norah O’Donnell [Video]
Sandberg claims Lean In is “sort of” a feminist manifesto. For me, it was simply a powerful woman’s tale of getting to the top. My amoebic blob of a career, very much in its infancy, appreciated the nuggets of wisdom shared. Finishing the last page, I thought: This is a book every young woman needs. [...]
Valentine’s Day at the Movies… and “Sexpectations” [Videos]
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle [...]
Study Finds Spilling Your Guts on Facebook is Bad for Romance
VALENTINE’S DAY is tomorrow. Breaking news, I know. Most of you know I spent a decade or so in the relationship, dating and sex industries, starting out as a relationship consultant. The big thing that’s changed since then is the social media world and that personal ads and online dating have morphed into a huge [...]
Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax [Video]
READING THE story, I still don’t believe it. I bet you won’t either. It’s the most bizarre series of events to take up this amount of oxygen since Casey Anthony, but at least there was a real live tragedy at the center of that story. But because of the furor around Manti Te’o, as well [...]
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