Mashable news : YouTube Removes Cookies From the White House

Recently, we wrote about the White House taking measures to ensure that the videos that appear on Whitehouse.gov do not set cookies that retrieve information about viewers’ online habits - something that embedded YouTube videos do.

In response, YouTube added an option to set cookies to delayed mode, making sure that YouTubeYouTube reviews tracks information only from those visitors who actually click on the video.

Now, YouTube has taken it a step further, completely ignoring the cookies collected from visitors to Whitehouse.gov. It’s a step in the right direction, but once again, it’s only an exception that’s been made solely to satisfy the White House’s demands. Thus, the question from the original article still stands: if YouTube’s privacy policy isn’t good enough for the US government - to the extent that YouTube has to make exceptions to its rules - is it good enough for the rest of us?

Source = mashable

Mashable news- Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [Video]

Facebook (Facebook reviews) has successfully launched Facebook Usernames. In 3 minutes, there were 200,000 usernames registered. In 15 minutes, over half a million, and it is rising. So what were the difficulties? How did they overcome issues? What is coming next? And most of all, how did the Facebook team celebrate the successful launch?

There have been some amazing happenings here, and so we grabbed a Flip HD and recorded it. In our first video, we spoke with Jared Morgenstern, Product Manager, and Guy Rom, Engineering Team Manager for the Commerce and Payment System. They explain why they didn’t use an auction system, the “nuclear option,” and more. The second video is from the Facebook War Room itself. Come see what’s been happening live at Facebook!






Source - Mashable