Scott Olsen and members of Iraq Veterans Against War are currently sitting in an Obama Campaign Headquarters in Oakland demanding Pfc. Manning's release. Watch live. Now. This is what democracy looks like.
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Wall Street's Biggest Heist Yet? How the High Wizards of Finance Gutted Our Schools and Cities
Wall Street banks have hollowed out our communities with fraudulently sold mortgages and illegal foreclosures and settled the crimes for pennies on the dollar. They’ve set back property records to the early 1900s, skipping the recording of deeds in county registry offices and using their own front called MERS. They lobbied to kill fixed pension plans and then shaved a decade of growth off our 401(K)s with exorbitant fees, rigged research and trading for the house.
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Facebook hit with tough questions on facial recognition in Senate hearing
Facial recognition data may seem like a minor feature, but it’s had some major consequences for Facebook.
The latest of these came today as Minnesota Senator Al Franken called a hearing to explore some of the issues related to the increase in facial recognition technology. And Facebook was in his crosshairs.
Representing the social network was Facebook Privacy and Policy manager Rob Sherman, who defended Facebook’s efforts but was ultimately unable to answer some of Senator Franken’s most pressing questions.
Topping Franken’s list of concerns was Facebook’s tendency to turn on major features like tag suggestions by default. Sherman defended the move by arguing that those kind of changes were a fundamental part of the Facebook product and that users always had the option to not use them.
“Facebook itself is an opt-in experience. People choose to be on Facebook because they want to share with each other. We think that it’s the right choice to let people who are uncomfortable with it to decide to opt out,” he said.
Franken, however, disagreed, adding that Google leaves the facial recognition software off by default in Google+. “I think this information is so sensitive that it’s the kind of thing users have to consciously opt themselves into,” he said.
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The latest of these came today as Minnesota Senator Al Franken called a hearing to explore some of the issues related to the increase in facial recognition technology. And Facebook was in his crosshairs.
Representing the social network was Facebook Privacy and Policy manager Rob Sherman, who defended Facebook’s efforts but was ultimately unable to answer some of Senator Franken’s most pressing questions.
Topping Franken’s list of concerns was Facebook’s tendency to turn on major features like tag suggestions by default. Sherman defended the move by arguing that those kind of changes were a fundamental part of the Facebook product and that users always had the option to not use them.
“Facebook itself is an opt-in experience. People choose to be on Facebook because they want to share with each other. We think that it’s the right choice to let people who are uncomfortable with it to decide to opt out,” he said.
Franken, however, disagreed, adding that Google leaves the facial recognition software off by default in Google+. “I think this information is so sensitive that it’s the kind of thing users have to consciously opt themselves into,” he said.
Read the full story here...
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