The agency responsible for privacy rights in Denmark questions Facebook:
The Danish Consumer Council has previously attacked Facebook for its policies, but the Data Protectioin Agency declined a request last year to investigate whether Facebook came under Danish legislation.
The agency has now, however, sent a list of questions to Facebook – among other questions asking what is necessary to have a family member who has died removed from the network, as well as what information Facebook shares with third parties.
The Czech government confirmed on Saturday that a computer file containing personal information about European Union leaders was mishandled during the April 5 EU-U.S. summit in Prague.
The statement from the government, which currently holds the EU presidency, was reacting to a report earlier this week by the Finnish news agency STT. It said the private information was found by a Finn on a public computer in a Czech hotel after the summit.
Ghip happens to know such precise details about his cats’ behavior because he has figured out how to make the world’s first photo-tweeting cat door. Penny and Gus both wear collars outfitted with thumb-nail-sized radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips. The chips are passively sensed, which means they don’t require a battery and don’t weigh down the collar. Whenever a cat goes near the door, a small RFID reader scans the tag and determines whether the cat is authorized to go in or out.
If the chip tells the reader that the cat is authorized, it not only activates the door opener; it simultaneously also activates a camera and a program on an attached laptop that sends the captured image to a separate Twitter account, where it is automatically posted on the cats’ microblog with a simple, cute caption that is automatically generated, such as “Gus is out to get rid of a hairball” or “Penny is in to shred the chair.”