From The Register

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I found this link on StumbledUpon today (cause I always find the most interesting things when I'm wasting time there) and thought I would share it.

Everybody uses Google because its services are free and very useful. However, because they are “free”, it does not mean that Google can take the privacy of its users for granted in order to maximise profit. Its privacy policy, I am afraid to say, is incoherent, unclear, and likely lead to breaches of data protection legislation. In my view, the Policy needs a major overhaul.

Also, they tried to take on Apple products: Google is once again under fire after a Stanford researcher discovered that the search giant and other advertising outfits have circumnavigated the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari users.

But this is good news: Mobile software that meddles with your sensitive info must have privacy polices and must display them clearly, California's Attorney General Kamala Harris declared yesterday in a statement agreed by all major app sellers.

Nearly St. Baldricks time!

OOoooooh. I lied. I was going to say no to sgareversebang but I said yes. Well, I picked my three choices of artwork. If they come back and say that I can't take those three, I'll know it wasn't meant to be.

Saturday is the St. Baldrick's shaving event and I'm so disappointed that I'm not doing it this year. The good news is that my sister is and so it's nearly as good. The other good news is that she still got me a team t-shirt so it's almost like I'm a full-fledged member of the Mad Hatters.

It looks like she hasn't raised much money but a lot of her friends at the hospital donated to the team (since the team is made up of nurses and techs) so the team is doing GREAT! They've had three different bake sales at the hospital that have done really well. She has funny stories about how the different departments keep fighting over who gets the remainders (everything that is leftover at the end of their allotted time to sell).

If you'd like to donate to St. Baldricks (the money goes toward childhood cancer research and they have a really good rating with the people who rate charitable organizations on how much of their money is used for what they're going to use it for), you can donate to my sister.

Since I'm not shaving my head, I'm going to need to get a haircut.