Faster Forward Archive: Privacy
Facebook, Warner Bros. team up for in-network movie rentals
"The Dark Knight" may be a few years old now, but it's getting new life as the first title offered up for rent through a partnership between Warner Bros. and Facebook. For 30 Facebook credits, which converts to about $3, you can watch the movie in your browser. Warner Bros. plans to expand the titles available for rent and purchase in the coming months.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 8, 2011; 10:23 AM ET |
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Facebook, Internet TV, Privacy, Security, Social media
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Judge says Sony can see visitors to hacker's site
A judge has said its okay for Sony to get the IP address of every user who has visited a Web site containing a hack for the PlayStation 3.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 7, 2011; 12:04 PM ET |
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Should schools use GPS to track truant students?
Should schools use GPS to track truant students?
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Hayley Tsukayama
| February 22, 2011; 10:02 AM ET |
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It's National Data Privacy Day
January 28th may be the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, but it's got at least one other significance: It's National Data Privacy Day.
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Sarah Halzack
| January 28, 2011; 4:46 PM ET |
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt to step down, depriving Web of future quotes
This hasn't been a good week for Silicon Valley CEOs. Only three days after Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced he was taking an undefined medical leave, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt announced that he would hand that job over to co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt broke the news in a...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 20, 2011; 4:36 PM ET |
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Facebook address-sharing retreat provides further proof of law of unintended consequences
Your Facebook applications will no longer steal your home address or your mobile-phone number. Then again, they weren't going to do that in the first place. The Palo Alto, Calif., social network hit the pause button on plans announced Friday night to allow third-party applications to request access to that...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 18, 2011; 2:11 PM ET |
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