Twitter Strengthens GeoLocation Tools With Mixer Labs

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Twitter is adding to their geolocation technology through their purchase of Mixer Labs. Mixer Labs’ GeoAPI is a tool that helps developers create geolocation-specific applications for the Twitter messaging service. The technology will allow Twitter users to identify the location where a tweet was posted from. The GeoAPI tool can track the location of tweets […]

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Facebook Hires Privacy Lobby in Washington and Brussels

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The Facebook social network experienced wild growth in 2009. Facebook went from 50 million registered people in January to more than 350 million registered people in less than a year. Facebook spent $9.5M in 2009 to settle a lawsuit regarding their advertising tool that was rolled out in 2007 and viewed by many as an […]

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Acxiom Data Mining and Your Digital Profile

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In the book Super Crunchers, Acxiom Corporation is described as “one of the biggest companies you’ve never heard of”. Acxiom is a personal data aggregator that collects consumer information on nearly every household in the United States and maintains a database mine of over twenty billion personal records. Acxiom’s data mine of information is over […]

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Big Brother Traffic Camera Records Woman’s Bedroom

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A British woman was shocked to find out that live images of her bedroom were viewable on a travel news site. A security camera used for traffic monitoring was pointed at her bedroom and recording. Filmed images on the site were so detailed that the pillows on her bed were easily identifiable. The woman described […]

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