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  • Converting ISO Dates to Text Representations in SQL (5)
    • Paul: Thanks for the thought. DB2 is pretty good at date handling – the problem is that whoever wrote the (soon...
    • Gav: Ah. Fair Enough. There’s T-SQL functions that make this easier. I work with a DB whizz and he’s got...
    • Paul: If it’s the || symbols that caused that caused the question, these are concatenation tokens....
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Browsing Posts in Privacy

LinkedIn pulls Facebook style privacy stunt

August 11, 2011 No comments

Steve Woodruff has noticed that LinkedIn has become the latest social networking site to decide that they can share your data without notification.

The all-new “Manage Social Advertising” option – which is switched on by default – allows LinkedIn to use profile information like names and photos in third-party advertising.

Finding the check-box to switch this off is not intuitive, but Woodruff has provided a handy guide to finding it.

Via The Register, which also notes that this new profile setting may breach Dutch privacy law.

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Privacy, Web

Juxtaposition

July 15, 2011 No comments

It is a complete coincidence that I happened to be listening to this song when I saw the news that Rebekah Brooks has failed to cling to her job.

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Audio, Politics, Privacy none

Quote of the Day: Respecting Privacy

March 4, 2011 No comments

It’s going too far if every passenger is intimately frisked.

- Thierry Vuchelen of the Belgian liberal union on why security staff at Brussels Airport have complained about being expected to carry out the now abandoned ‘intimate frisking’ body searches.

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Belgium, Liberties, Privacy none

More creepy than cool

January 28, 2011 No comments

Tami Deedrick at The Buzz mentions…

IBM is working on digital billboards that read the RFID chips in your wallet or purse and then change to reach you specifically with a relevant ad. Creepy-cool, right?

A billboard that announces to to world whatever information happens to have been captured on your RFID enabled gadget. I’d call that creepy-intrusive.

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Privacy, Technology none
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