Twitter must disclose the identity of three alleged collaborators of Wikileaks

A judge has ruled that Twitter must disclose the identity of three allegedly linked users to the organization Wikileaks . The Department of Justice United States began this research in 2010 , Twitter has had to provide the IP addresses of the three defendants.

The Department of Justice U.S. reawakens the debate about privacy and the right to freedom of expression on the Net This department has ordered Twitter to reveal the identity of three users of the network of microblogging , allegedly linked to the organization Wikileaks. Last month, Google and an ISP (Internet Service Provider, its acronym in English) also had to reveal the account information e-mail from a volunteer organization.

However, if these three Twitter users can generate the most controversy. According to U.S. newspaper picks up The New York Times , the Justice Department requested this information without a court order in 2010. Instead, based on the 1994 law Stored Communications Act called (Stored Communications Act), the government demanded that Twitter provide the IP addresses of the three users, and other data.

Twitter informed the U.S. security expert Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp Dutch citizen and Member of Parliament, Birgitta Jonsdottir earlier this year on the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department.

The defendants argued before the federal court that their IP addresses "should be considered private information" and that the demand for information was too broad and not related to Wikileaks. They also argued that the lawsuit violated his right to freedom of expression.

Meanwhile the trial judge ruled that because these three users IP addresses given "voluntarily" when registering for the first time on Twitter, from that moment gave up their privacy.

Facebook in no hurry to enter China

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said that in no hurry to operate in China . "Right now we still have much room for growth in other countries, so this is not a priority that worries us," Zuckerberg said in an interview on U.S. television network PBS.

However, another company policy that accompanied the chief executive, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook qualified that wish to operate in China in an indefinite period. Sandberg said: "If our mission is to connect the world, can not pretend connecting without China . " He also claimed that the absence of the social network in the country of China is a political decision by the Beijing government. The directive stated that " we are not accessible because they have decided . "

Zuckerberg hinted at China's censorship against Internet Group companies say that if Facebook decided to set up in China, should take into account the conditions under which it would do and decide whether to accept or not .

Facebook chief executive also talked about entry into the company's stock, explaining that it is committed to their workers, who have paid with securities of the company. In turn he said: " We have not promised to do in the short term . "

Finally, Zuckerberg discussed his relationships with other technology groups in the West Coast, such as Amazon and Apple, which seems to make more associations. As he said: "There are many discussions with both companies try to find ways to do more things together . "

Also alluded to Google and Google + social network, "I think Google is trying to build a small Facebook", noting that Google + is very competitive .

Facebook is better to create events, Google + wins in privacy and contents

In the world of social networking , today, there is an absolute ruler called Facebook . But beware, the birth of Google + has made ​​the social network Mark Zuckerberg put the batteries and speed changes and resolve many shortcomings that bothered many users.

The social network of Google , though very young, has shown more than one occasion to Facebook. What is more complete regardless of how many users you have? From Consumer offer a comparison between the two:

• The question can be summarized that the best way to get in touch with friends and networking as well as create public and private events is Facebook.
• For its part, Google + Facebook surpasses the time to share, publish and discover content and management of privacy.

Facebook has made ​​efforts to add features included in Google +, so that both already have several things in common :

• Both Google and Facebook + can organize contacts into different groups . In this way, Internet users can publish content on their sites and decide which group of people wants to share.
• Both allow video calls and have an instant messaging system for your contacts. However, Google + is the only one who supports videoconferences with groups of up to ten people.
• The detection of the position of the user is also present in both networks.
• Furthermore, these social networks allow you to indicate that something is pleasing to its users through a button called "like" or "like" in the case of Facebook, and "+1" in Google.

As for the type of relationships between contacts , Google + are not reciprocal. That is, it is not necessary before accepting a contact so you can access the content. Facebook has recently added a feature to all profiles to allow other users to subscribe to the content marked as public. However, this functionality is not enabled by default.

Among the differences that show both social networks are:

• The types of profiles and the management of privacy . For Google, all profiles must be public users, while Facebook can set the profile to be public or private.

Facebook has social features like remembering birthdays , events or surveys, something that Google does +.

• Content published : Google + includes a function to change the texts published in each status update or in the comments. In this way, you can correct spelling mistakes or update the content. On Facebook, on the contrary, this action does not exist and the only way available is to delete the comment and re-publish.

• Images : Google + allows you to upload images to the platform without having to be public. This is not possible in Facebook, and all images uploaded to the social network is automatically published, although in this case it is possible to indicate a level of privacy for the album where they are integrated. In Google +, each image can be published to indicate the level of privacy to choose the circle with the sharing. In addition, Google + can find new content without having to follow anyone in the social network. This is based on their own algorithms and recommender systems.

Facebook chooses the cold northern Sweden

The social network Facebook announced this week it will build its third center servers and the first in Europe in Luleå , northern Sweden.

The center will be composed of three cameras and servers will serve about 800 million users of social networking in Europe, said during the presentation in Luleå, Tom Furlong, head of new facilities Facebook.

The investment will amount to between 3,000 and 5,000 million Swedish crowns (between 329 and 549 million euros), of which the Swedish Government will provide approximately 100 ( 11 million euros ), said the Swedish Minister of Industry, Annie Lööf.

The choice of Luleå is mainly due to its weather, as it is in the coldest area of Sweden and the cold is necessary to keep the temperature of the servers, said Furlong.

The construction process will begin immediately and is expected that the first camera server is ready within a year and the entire project is completed in 2014 .

Spanish consumers are the world's busiest social networking

The Spanish consumer is the world's busiest social networking, pay more attention to the messages on the network, to find more persuasive, and advised by strangers rather leave to professionals, according to the findings of the study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The managing partner of PWC Retail & Consumer, Javier Vello, and the director of the division responsible for the report, Manuel Rodriguez, EFEAGRO have detailed the main findings of the study "Tangled, Keys to effective use of social networks" in the context the Aecoc Congress 2011 , which represents 25,000 signatures and food distribution industry and is now closing in Seville.


For the investigators, although of low penetration, the use of social networks by Spanish consumers evolve from leisure-oriented functions, which are the most commonly used today , to purchase shares. In this sense Users of social networks increased by 16% they will use the same for their purchases, 13% to download files and 11% to follow the developments of the brands, the study led to the Spanish market and FMCG sector. They have ensured that social networks are a key support to build brands and Spanish users decide to purchase a greater extent through the brand and website portals through other means such as messages reach them by email, forums or social networks. The conversion ratio of consumers who see an ad for a brand online and decide to buy is higher in the website and portals (34%) than in webmail (13% ), which in forums and blogs (17%) and social networking (13%). However, while ad spending on digital media is growing , is still below the European average. According to the PWC study, Internet users pay more attention to ads that appear after links in different search engines that make them seem more persuasive advertisements in newspapers and TV.