“Yesterday, Evernote announced some changes to its privacy policy that proved to be very controversial. To help with its machine learning efforts, some employees would gain the ability to see users’ personal notes.
The changes weren’t meant to go into effect until January 23, and now they won’t be. In fact, the firm has admitted that it has made a mistake, and is now trying to make sure that its users know that they can still trust it.”
And really, shouldn’t they have known better? Maybe stop and think before violating your user’s privacy?
This is pretty horrible. “Patients sitting in emergency rooms, at chiropractors’ offices and at pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing on their phones the kind of messages typically seen along highway billboards and public transit: personal injury law firms looking for business by casting mobile online ads at patients. The potentially creepy…
Don’t Argue Gmail is Not Reasonably Accessible tags: LitSupport MM The FCC’s new net neutrality rules will kill Aereo, even if the Supreme Court doesn’t tags: MM Tech What Google Knows About You tags: MM Tech New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer tags: MM Tech Posted from Diigo. The rest of my…
This theory of learning styles is widely assumed to be true, not just in academia, but when it comes to technology training as well. I remain a skeptic of it, and current research continues to find no truth in it. “Husmann and O’Loughlin don’t pull any punches in their conclusion. Their findings, they write –…
Thanks to some fellow Friends in Tech members, I learned over the weekend that Box.net is giving away upgrades to 50GB of storage if you download their iOS app and log in to the service. Now, there are some limitations to the Box.net service, as laid out over on the Mac Screencast Guy, but 50GB…
I suppose this was inevitable, but does the world really need a social network for shopping? “Amazon Spark has one big advantage over Instagram. That’s because its e-commerce component is integrated directly into the social feed. Instagram can’t compete with that. In fact, Spark users can shop on Amazon without even leaving the social site.”…
Before I get started, I’ve got to say I had a good time meeting up with other bloggers last night. Kevin O’Keefe organized the event and picked up the tab, which was awesome. Got a chance to meet and chat with a few fellow bloggers, who I won’t even try to link to, because I…
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