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"serious privacy gaps."

o take the California-based company to Federal Court in Ottawa to try and get a court order requiring it to change its business practices to comply with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the country's private-sector privacy law.

Facebook users must consent to share all their personal information, except their contact details.

violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.

alleges the social-networking site

The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,

be more transparent about what data it collects and why.

privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account

The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.

a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."

the minor's medical information may have been stored

Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,

Facebook must also deal with persistent privacy concerns. When the company first rolled out the News Feed, and any change on a user's page suddenly began scrolling on the screens of anyone who'd added him or her as a friend, the social graph went bonkers: more than 700,000 people joined a user group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." The company acted quickly to install privacy controls to let people opt out of the information flow, and the crisis cooled, though Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says that setting privacy preferences is still too complicated. The company says that plenty of protections are built in. "Facebook is about replicating the social restrictions of the offline world," says its chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly. The problem is that Facebook is on the Internet, and it's all too easy to circumvent those and dig up private stuff. This is all too clear from the experience of political offspring who seem engaged in perpetual competition to embarrass their parents.

limit application developers' access to user information,

deactivated account information should be deleted

'serious privacy gaps.'

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

it also means that people can be illuminated without being aware of it.

The ability to provide real-time surveillance of large areas may be getting closer, as the Army launches a quest for a 2.3 gigapixel camera that could be packaged aboard a drone or a manned aircraft.

In terms of specifics, the Army is looking for 2.3 gigapixels running at two frames per second. By my reckoning, this suggests continuous coverage of area of around sixty-two square miles at 0.3m resolution with a single sensor

The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.

It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."

The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.

easy it was to exploit security loopholes

redirect traffic

access and steal any information exchanged

identity theft

internet and telephone transactions

payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain.

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."

In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value

This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.