from Joe Lorenzo Hall
Twitter starts wrapping all hyperlinks through t.co
http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/10/twitter-url-wrapping/
“Twitter has various reason for forcing all hyperlinks through t.co.
It eliminates the security risk posed by third-party short link
services (like Tinyurl and bit.ly) that don’t allow the company to
screen for malicious links. But more importantly, t.co URL wrapping is
central to Twitter’s new web traffic analytics service unveiled in
September.”
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FTC vs. Frostwire (filed: 10/7/2011)
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/1123041/111011frostwirecmpt.pdf
Interesting because as opposed to much of FTC action lately in this
space, the violations not only include deceptive practices but *also*
unfair practices, indicating that not only was Frostwire not
forthcoming with how their filesharing application works, but also
that they caused substantial harm to consumers (by default sharing
private files — “pictures, videos, unprotected applications,
documents, music and audio files, and ringtones.” — publicly, and
making it difficult for users to do otherwise).
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CA Gov. vetos bill that would require warrant to search cell phones of arrestees
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/warrantless-phone-searches/