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LinkedIn has acknowledged that it may have been too enthusiastic about its censorship efforts in China. The company’s director of communications, Hani Durzy, told Bloomberg that LinkedIn is “strongly considering changing our policy so that content from our Chinese members that is not allowed in China will still be viewed globally.” Some LinkedIn members in China were up in arms after the company was found to have censored what it deemed as sensitive content prohibited in the country — not only in China, but globally. Durzy told Marketplace reporter Rob Schmitz that doing so was to “protect the safety of our members that…
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Apple has updated the privacy policy for its HealthKit service to make it clear to developers that their apps cannot store user information in iCloud. Just last week, it amended the policy guidelines to explain that health data should not be accessible to advertisers. iCloud is currently making headlines for the wrong reasons, after hackers reportedly gained access to private photos belonging to celebrities via Apple’s cloud storage service. Apple yesterday rejected claims that its system had been compromised — it says the thefts were a result of “a very targeted attack” on celebrity accounts using their usernames and passwords. The guidelines have also been updated to provide…
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While Apple has denied that its iCloud service was at fault in last week’s leaking of nude celebrity photos, Wired is reporting that attackers are using a forensic tool marketed for law enforcement officials to download backups of victims’ iCloud accounts. Writer Andy Greenberg spent time on the Anon-IB anonymous image forums researching the techniques that hackers are using to gain access to private photos. One such tool is Elcomsoft’s Phone Password Breaker (EPPB). Elcomsoft calls its software an “ideal solution for law enforcement and intelligence organizations,” but it has gained popularity among users trying to steal private data from…
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Rick Liebling is Head of Global Marketing for Unmetric. “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker Five years ago, omnipresence was the social maxim for brands. With each freshly minted social network, brands gleefully added a new button to the company website and proudly pronounced: “Connect with us on (fill in the blank).” The “If you build it, they will come” approach to social worked for some, but for many who hopped on every network because “everyone else did,” the trees fell but nobody heard them. The notion that…
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