Facebook settles FTC Information Privacy Complaint

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11/29/11: Facebook has settled a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission that the social networking giant deceived consumers by promising privacy protections while it shared and made user data more public, according to the FTC.

Databases & Metadata in Action: Jeopardy Champion

In September, 2011, Computer Science grad student Roger Craig set a new single-day record of $77,000 on Jeopardy.

In a video, Craig explains how he trained for Jeopardy by creating an application that allowed him to power study.  If you listen to the first four minutes of his explanation, you will hear how he used metadata to create a database of hundreds of thousands of Jeopardy questions and answers.

In November 2011 Roger Craig won the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, taking home a quarter million dollars in cash winnings.

HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web

A year and a half after Steve Jobs endorsed it in an unusual essay, a set of programming techniques called HTML5 is rapidly winning over the Web. Don Clark has details on Digits (WSJ).

FIPS: Lurid InfoGraphic

Image by o5com via FlickrDo You Know Who's Watching You?

EU FIPS: Germany vs Facebook

 Germany Wants Facebook’s Facial Recognition Features Halted.

Filesharing: Be Informed (UO)

UO: Risks of Filesharing.

UO: Filesharing FAQ.

Judge forces U of Oregon to cough up student data to RIAA.

DMCA: Felony File Sharing (article from PSU).

RIAA v. The People: Does it Work?.

Law & Technology: Remix Nation

Law and technology: Remix Nation

Assessing the threat the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act pose for fair use.

Rebecca Tushnet
Communications of the ACM
Vol. 54 No. 9, Pages 22-24

Two Views on FIPS

Eric Schmidt

Stephen Colbert