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1	Facebook lives up to my worst expectations In January 2008 I made this prediction: it would be far more effective to use a Facebook application to harvest personal information whilst apparently offering a useful service, and then use the data elsewhere and/or at some time after the application ...	18-Oct-2010 20:26:35
2	Facebook: do I get to say "I told you so?" Just noticed that slashdot is running a story on Facebook applications and data privacy: Privacy activists are rallying around yet another major issue at Facebook, in which the company is secretly sharing user data with third parties. Researchers from ...	07-Feb-2008 12:26:17
3	Facebook faces privacy questions Just noticed this report on the BBC News website: Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office. The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully ...	18-Jan-2008 15:27:21
4	Facebook: and so it begins... I just came across this security advisory via The Register. A malicious Facebook application is using social engineering techniques to persuade people to install spyware/adware on their machines: What happened is reasonably straightforward, sadly. The ...	04-Jan-2008 04:12:44
5	How to leave Facebook - followup 3 On the 14th December the UK Information Commissioner's Office set me an update on my complaint about Facebook's refusal to remove your data when you try to close your account. Here's what the ICO said: I write to let you know that I am in the process ...	26-Dec-2007 03:39:12
6	Facebook privacy roundup Steven Mansour has written a nice roundup of various articles and blog entries about Facebook's stance on privacy. What is interesting to me is not so much the concentration on Facebook, it is that there seems to be a growing awareness of the importance ...	30-Nov-2007 02:16:42
7	How to leave Facebook - followup 2 See here and here for the backstory to this post. I've had a reply from the UK Information Commissioner's Office saying that they are looking at my complaint, so things are moving there too. It also seems that I've sparked some interest in this topic, ...	20-Nov-2007 05:08:01
8	How to leave Facebook - followup 1 The electrons were barely dry on my last post when I received an email from TRUSTe about the problems I'd had getting Facebook to close my account; the interesting bit is below: Thank you for submitting your privacy complaint through the TRUSTe ...	19-Nov-2007 11:31:35
9	How to leave Facebook As I documented in my last post, it isn't actually possible to leave Facebook, all you can do is 'deactivate' your account. I got in touch with Facebook and asked them to delete my account, and here is the reply I got from them: If you deactivate, ...	19-Nov-2007 10:35:38
10	Facebook and your lack of privacy I've just attempted to delete my Facebook account, only to find this on the 'deactivate' page: Opt out of receiving emails from Facebook. Note: Even after you deactivate, your friends can still invite you to events, tag you in photos, or ask you to ...	02-Nov-2007 02:53:49
11	Hosting a community website using Solaris and Tomcat Outside of work I'm also a member of a Community-based Samba band, Meninos do Morumbi Oldham, along with my son James. Like most people in the IT business, once people figure out what you do you inevitably get requests to help with anything related to ...	27-Nov-2006 02:54:59
12	May bank holiday busk As I'd explained in a previous post, Meninos do Morumbi Oldham, the Samba band of which my son James and myself are members are going to be busking in Manchester on the last weekend of every month, with the money going to a housing project in Sao Paulo. ...	01-May-2006 12:35:46
13	April Fool's busk On Saturday we invaded Manchester for our first ever busking session - and all for a good cause. Eraldo (the guy in the red jacket in the photo above) comes from Sao Paulo in Brazil where we was a member of Meninos do Morumbi, a fantastic ...	03-Apr-2006 10:40:32
14	Jenny Pope: Missing in Ecuador I was driving to band practice tonight and an item came on Radio Four about Jenny Pope, a lady from Mossley who has gone missing in Ecuador. She was last heard from while she was in Banos, Quito on 9th January and shortly afterwards her bank account was ...	27-Feb-2006 14:21:13
15	Stealth samba As anyone who plays samba knows, it's a bit of a noisy pursuit, and tamborim is especially so as it's so high-pitched. This makes practising at home a little problematic unless everyone in your household (and the surrounding households!) is completely ...	01-Feb-2006 05:42:44
16	First Meninos do Morimbi - Oldham gig Today I played my first Samba gig with the Oldham branch of Meninos do Morumbi, as part of this year's Oldham Carnival. Meninos are a Brazilian group from São Paulo in Brazil, and at the moment three of their teachers, Eraldo, Sivuca and Adriana are ...	28-May-2005 10:09:03
17	First t-shirt patrol of the year Today was really rather warm - in the mid to upper teens (mid 60's fahrenheit for any colonials listening in), so rather than being bundled up like an Inuit I got to walk around in my t-shirt - it looks like spring is really here at last. Unfortunately ...	19-Mar-2005 07:12:37
18	Tsunami gig #2 I'm kinda behind on my blogging, so I better play catchup! Last Sunday we played at our second Tsumami benefit gig at The Globe, a pub in Glossop that specialises in real ale, vegan food and live music. We normally go there after Wednesday practice ...	05-Feb-2005 06:29:51
19	Busking for tsunami relief Yesterday the Samba band I'm in took part in a big bash in Manchester to raise funds for tsunami relief. There were about six bands there in total, well over 100 people. We met up in the Royal Exchange Theatre building. I'd never been in there before, ...	09-Jan-2005 09:44:31
20	Rio meets the Highlands I'm part of a local Samba band, and now summer is here (hah!) we are in the thick of our gig season. We rely on performance fees collected over the summer to keep us going over the winter months. Yesterday we played at St Swithun's Community Centre in ...	11-Jul-2004 10:29:56

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