Transition Notes - May to June, 2014
May. 31st, 2014 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineAs I end the first week of my newest job-search and transition from May to June, here's a few things of interest:
1. There's a pro-privacy class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook. Of particular interest, probably to current LJ management as much as to Facebook's is the following quote:
Rhone argues no one should be able to use your likeness and name to endorse a product without your permission, claiming it violates B.C.'s Privacy Act.
"When their names and portraits are being taken, and put into advertisements for the gain of the company, that's just wrong," Rhone said.
2. Cory Doctorow has a few things to say about privacy in modern times, and you might want to give them a read-through. Whether you agree with him or not.
3. Advance polling stations are now active in the last two weeks before the Ontario provincial election on June 12th. If you live in Ontario, and you expect to not be able to get to a polling station on the day itself...go visit this site set up by Elections Ontario. They'll be able to help you get that squared away. (If you've gotten your voter's info card in the paper-mail, though, refer to that first.)
In any case, if you're a Canadian citizen and you live in Ontario and expect to continue doing so for a few years?
Show up and vote.
Please.
4. Apparently, this was my 3,000th LJ posting. Not even ten years since this started...
5. More to follow in later posts.
1. There's a pro-privacy class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook. Of particular interest, probably to current LJ management as much as to Facebook's is the following quote:
Rhone argues no one should be able to use your likeness and name to endorse a product without your permission, claiming it violates B.C.'s Privacy Act.
"When their names and portraits are being taken, and put into advertisements for the gain of the company, that's just wrong," Rhone said.
2. Cory Doctorow has a few things to say about privacy in modern times, and you might want to give them a read-through. Whether you agree with him or not.
3. Advance polling stations are now active in the last two weeks before the Ontario provincial election on June 12th. If you live in Ontario, and you expect to not be able to get to a polling station on the day itself...go visit this site set up by Elections Ontario. They'll be able to help you get that squared away. (If you've gotten your voter's info card in the paper-mail, though, refer to that first.)
In any case, if you're a Canadian citizen and you live in Ontario and expect to continue doing so for a few years?
Show up and vote.
Please.
4. Apparently, this was my 3,000th LJ posting. Not even ten years since this started...
5. More to follow in later posts.