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Did Paramount Do Enough To Protect Kids In Kite Runner? - IMDB
Paramount Pictures is being criticized for the way it has dealt with the Afghan children who appeared in director Marc Forster’s critically praised film The Kite Runner. Although the studio located four of the young actors and their families or guardians to Dubai for their safety before the movie was released, at least one, 12-year-old Zekeria Ebrahimi, who stars in the film, has been forced to return but has become the target of gangs who say that the film denigrates the Afghan culture, according to a report broadcast Wednesday by National Public Radio.
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Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses - Associated Press
This doesn’t sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else. The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN’s domain names were restored within 20 minutes. However, because many Internet directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer.
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Google faces ‘Street View block’ - BBC
Google’s plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken. Privacy International, a UK rights group, believes the technology breaks data protection laws. “In our view they need a person’s consent if they make use of a person’s face for commercial ends,” said Simon Davis of the group.
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Doherty to write autobiography - Ireland Online
British rocker Pete Doherty is reportedly set to lay bare the details of his stormy relationship with ex-girlfriend Kate Moss in a new autobiography. Babyshambles frontman Doherty has teamed up with author and ex-drug addict Sean Boru to write the “intensely personal biography” which will focus heavily on the 29-year-old’s tumultuous relationship with the supermodel.
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Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy - New York Times
The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home page, with a link to the company’s privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, which requires the operator of a commercial Web site that collects personal information to link to its privacy policy from its home page.
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[OT] Japan asks: anybody out there? - Reuters
Japan’s biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space. They’re aiming to pursue their investigation by marshalling their combined resources to view intensively one small area of space over a short period of time.
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July 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Google street view blurs faces so what’s the problem?
Unless you wear a shirt with your name on it in very large letters I doubt that you could be identified.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Paramount made their money, so why should they care?