Nearshore Journal

Buffeted by privacy snafus and the lingering fallout from a damning, years-old instant messaging thread, Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg switched into full-on damage control Monday, confessing that the sprawling social network had “missed the mark” when it comes to its complex privacy controls — and pledging to do better.
In an open letter published Monday [...]

By Rob Pegoraro
This morning’s Post features an op-ed from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressing a controlled sort of contrition for its recent privacy moves and promising a simpler privacy-settings interface.
The piece falls short of the “we’re sorry” apology you might want. Zuckerberg allows that in Facebook’s quest to make it easier for people to connect [...]

The Google Cars.
By BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks.
The admission, made in an official blog post by Alan Eustace, Google’s engineering chief, comes a month after regulators in Europe started asking [...]

Editor’s comments on Post (P.Peters):What is fundamentally wrong with Googl’s apology in the post is him finally saying I’m sorry at the end when it should be said at the beginning.
On Friday May 14 the Irish Data Protection Authority asked us to delete the payload data we collected in error in Ireland. We can confirm [...]

* US reviewed proposed safety fix, raised no objection
* Toyota head apologizes for recall -Japan’s NHK
* Remedy would address sticking accelerator pedals
* France’s Peugeot recalls some vehicles made with Toyota (Adds Toyota apology, comment on fix, Peugeot recall)
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – U.S. safety regulators are satisfied with a Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) [...]

By Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek
Mac OS X 10.6.2 addresses security and stability issues, and resolves a file deletion bug involving Guest accounts.
pple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.6.2, an update to its Snow Leopard operating system that fixes several dozen security issues and enhances general operating system performance.
The Snow Leopard update addresses 40 security [...]

By Ian Bell
Apple released OS X 10.6.2 update today that fixes a number of major bugs.
Apple released a relatively important update today, 10.6.2 for Snow Leopard. Among the numerous fixes, the update now addresses data loss from the system when using a guest account. There are several upset users on the net reporting that the [...]