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Facebook Privacy Interview with Facebook’s Richard Allan

Duncan — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:23:39 +0000

Thursday 27th May, on the BBC’s 5 Live, Facebook’s Richard Allen, Director of Policy in Europe was interviewed about privacy by presenter Stephen Nolan. Stephen was tough with his questioning, as he should be, but not as tough as some of the callers citing actual experiences with Facebook privacy issues.

Richard Allan was there to discuss recent privacy settings simplifications as announced by Mark Zuckerberg but the biggest issue seemed to be under age use of the site.

Listen to the interview here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sjccf#p0082fx0

Read listener comments here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/shows/victoria-derbyshire/2010-05/facebook/

Viacom’s Copyright Suit vs YouTube

Duncan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:43:45 +0000

I once had a video taken down by YouTube. Viacom had said that the music was their copyright, so YouTube had just taken it down without even contacting me until it was gone. I had filmed the video myself and used royalty free music from my video production library (and certainly not Viacom). I was told I had to show it was not violating T&Cs. So I read the below story and others like it to come out recently with interest.

The U.S. District Court has just made public the documentation in the controversial Viacom vs. YouTube case. It’s a goldmine of data, most of which is really dirty mud-slinging by Viacom, based on internal emails from YouTube’s past. Link to original story