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on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:31AM
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
The decision... gave Facebook a win in a lawsuit that accused the company of improperly tracking users' Internet usage... even after they had logged out of their Facebook accounts.
Facebook had promised that logging out would delete the cookies, the lawsuit charged.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ruled that plaintiffs in the lawsuit "have not established that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy".
Additionally, the decision said the plaintiffs failed to establish a "realistic economic harm or loss".
Darn it! As a member of the injured class, I was looking forward to winning a coupon for 1 month of free facebook use.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:05AM (1 child)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org] seems to offer better information than Google Maps if you only care about pure maps, not aerial photos, and facts like "Foo is here" or "this is number 42 in Bar St". Google has been removing too much, or requiring a lot of zooming or explicit text search, clearly to know what you are looking for.
What we need is browser extensions (or better, background bots that impersonate browsers and we can keep running anywhere, anytime) to poisoning the databases. Instead of hidding you, they download tracking and provide plausible but useless information. Not totally random, but varied and slanted towards not common yet not totally niche things. So they don't know who among the 10 "actors" in your IP is real or fake. Maybe you still hide, and all is fake. That would be a great, yet huge, task for FOSS and activism and even mathematicians, as it would need to emulate mouse motions, browser rendering quirks, replicate navigation patterns and source trends to mimic and create a crafted noise (mathematicians work)... everything until the bot passes this kind of Turing test (FB analysis being the tester) and they can't know if pizza interest went from 10% to 30% in your area is real.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:54AM
Is free satellite images available anywhere? ie ones that can be republished? or is it time for a map-hub.kg ?
If browser were to share and cache satellite images between themselves it should not take too long before the whole earth is covered.