Unless you’ve set your Twitter account to private, every time you ponder the meaning of a vapid celebrity’s fame or tweet about how much you love your new Spanx, those missives are public. If you only have say, 47 followers those tweets might not seem very public, but hey, maybe the Library of Congress is reading anyway. [More]
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Library Of Congress Amassing Billions Of Tweets For Researchers Wondering If You Liked That Movie
By 1.7.13
Library Of Congress Now Home To Complete Archive Of Inane Tweets
By 4.14.10
Remember that Tweet you wrote about Tiger Woods that seemed hilarious at the time? Or that night you shared your thoughts on your cousin Bob’s lack of personal hygiene? Good news — all of the world’s most trivial 140-character-or-less Tweets will soon be housed forever in the Library of Congress. [More]
Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine
By 2.14.09
[it] would have the right to claim statutory damages of up to $2,500 “per act of circumvention.” People who jailbreak phones, might even be subject to criminal penalties of as long as five years, if they circumvented copyright for a financial gain.
