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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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BECOMING CHAPLIN, new musical about one of the world’s most Iconic entertainers to play Bway in the 2012-2013 Season • • • WIT‘s Cynthia Nixon, Margaret Edson, & Lynne Meadow will be on NPR’s “All Thing’s Considered” today (@npratc) • • • Here’s some video footage of WIT RT @PlaybillVideo: “WIT” With “Sex in the City”‘s Cynthia Nixon: @BBBway • • • The JERSEY BOYS do Dayton: via @youtube • • •
Google privacy policy is subject to backlash
Washington Post– by HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA
Google’s announcement that it is sharing more user data across its services has already raised the hackles of privacy advocates, technology writers and caught the attention of at least one national data-protection agency.
On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it was placing 60 of its Web services under a unified privacy policy that would allow the company to share data between any of those services. (Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome are excluded due to different regulatory and technical issues.) Any user with a Google account — used to sign in to services such as Gmail, YouTube and personalized search — must agree to the policy. Users who don’t want to have their data shared have the option to close their accounts with Google.
Some praised the company for being so open about the changes, including European Commissioner for Justice Vivian Reding. Reding, vice president of the EC, is the continent’s leading advocate for laws on Internet privacy and data protection, and said Google’s move was a step in the right direction.
“Google was quick. Even before the Commission decided on the new European law, Google made the first step in the direction of new privacy rules. I can only applaud the direction,” she said in a statement.
But not having the right to choose what information is shared between services is the source of a great deal of criticism. In remarks to The Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said that he thinks it is “imperative” that users have control over what information they want to have shared between the services Google offers.
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The Billboard Charts ~ Issue Date: 2012-02-04
Billboard Top Broadway Cast Album Catalog:
#1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#2. The Book of Mormon, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#3. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording