“Deleting is Publishing, And Amazon Never Removed 1984 From Your Kindle” and other links…
Gawker.com: “Is Amazon.com just trying to be creepy? It’s already headed by a ‘chuckling maniac’ being sued over defective Kindles and swindling newspapers on the e-book reader. Now his company is quietly deleting people’s Kindle books. It’s Orwellian. Literally. …A publisher changed its mind about selling George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm electronically. So Amazon agreed to just go ahead and remotely delete bought and paid for e-copies of the books from people’s Kindles.”
Yahoo! “We’re Firing! Then, ‘We’re Hiring!’”
Gawker.com: “The company is becoming infamous for its bingeing on and purging of personnel. Winter before last, Yahoo laid off around 1,000 employees, then immediately announced 459 new openings. In the spring came more layoffs, followed soon after by billboards like the above, snapped by Flickr user ‘nfarmer’ next to U.S. Highway 101: ‘We’re hiring!’”
“Yahoo! protects user privacy—and gets fined?”
blog.cdt.org: “The court agreed: It found that the availability of Yahoo! Mail to Belgian residents, combined with what it believed to be the use of Mail in connection with criminal purposes within Belgium, was sufficient to find that Yahoo! Inc. has a commercial presence in Belgium. Therefore, Yahoo! was subject to Belgian laws, and thus in violation of a telecommunications statute that compelled disclosure of the requested data.”