Last week, the Gawker reported that Twitter blocked Politiwoops from using its service. Politiwoops is a service from the Sunlight Foundation (dedicated to transparent government) that tracks Tweets politicians delete. Sometimes they are just “mistake” tweets (tweets with typos or accidental re-tweets), but others are politically charged/incorrect and potentially career threatening. Politwoops would use Twitter’s API …
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Facebook is not Private!
If you are like most people, you have a Facebook account. If you’re smart, you have your privacy settings such that only your friends can see your postings, private information and pictures. Even set as private, your privacy is not guaranteed. Your friends can re-post or forward along your postings. But even worse, courts are now …