PayPal and Ebay, offshore, lawless banking service ? privacy breach and data protection act

While all the European markets are suffering, there are some businesses doing very well.. Paypal is one of them, ebay's banking arm, set up in luxembourg for tax evation purpose, sending money here and there and getting massive commissions and cuts also on ebay and many other services

they are so strong that they arrogantly refuse to provide you with your own record of the information they they have about you, simply because they are not a UK-based company so they don't have to abide by UK regulations..

the only way is not to use them!

Twitter no longer whitelisting researchers

So this came as sad news for me, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_twitters_terms_of_service_mi.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I believe Twitter is a great source for sociologists, psychologists, market researchers and etc.. and I am sad to hear this.. though yes there are privacy concerns about tweets that are later removed.. see the related tweets

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@elsubliminal @realhamed Yes I thought the same this morning. It's very old stuff, last year or so...only the whitelisting thing.

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mircomusolesi Mirco Musolesi

@realhamed Also: you can still redistribute content but not in order to "substitute" Twitter. Otherwise Twitter clients should be illegal :)

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mircomusolesi Mirco Musolesi

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@realhamed They were not able to share them also before or better they had to support deletions (they had to mirror Twitter...impossible).

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elsubliminal Vijay Erramilli

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@realhamed Ok learnt from a source in Twitter - the article has tons of errors. Nothing has changed except whitelisting.

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mircomusolesi Mirco Musolesi

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@realhamed But I agree that the removal of the whitelist might be a problem for collecting large datasets...

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mircomusolesi Mirco Musolesi

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@realhamed These are not new changes. They were made last year as far as I know. Not major changes anyway - dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms

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Suksant Suksant Sae Lor

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@realhamed well, we're using twitter to complain about twitter's policy lol sorry twitter, but ur data can be very useful!

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Suksant Suksant Sae Lor

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@realhamed and will MPI comply? Just curious...

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Suksant Suksant Sae Lor

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@realhamed thank you Hamed : ) this is ashamed since the crawled data is so useful... I'm sure they will make it into business somehow : (

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tnhh Tristan Henderson

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@realhamed Rubbish! Just because I am willing to make data public for one purpose doesn't mean you can use them. See @zephoria's WWW talk.

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Suksant Suksant Sae Lor

@realhamed I'm referring to the change of twitter policy that prevent crawling... Thank you : )

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Suksant Suksant Sae Lor

@realhamed could u pls kindly give me a link to the source? I couldn't find it... Thank you Hamed.

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guppiefish guppiefish

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@realhamed Guess we need a Tweet federation protocol (even if Twitter resist :)

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tnhh Tristan Henderson

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@realhamed identi.ca? I still maintain that crawling the OSNs without users' consent is on dodgy ethical ground though.

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guppiefish guppiefish

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@realhamed http://www.opensourcetweet.com/

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elsubliminal Vijay Erramilli

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@realhamed Worse is prohibiting data already crawled.. This is problematic indeed..

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realhamed hamed haddadi

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@mircomusolesi so now we have a few institutions who have the data for few years, but they cant share it! it is a difficult situation

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realhamed hamed haddadi

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@Suksant not sure what the source is.. though Twitter has also emailed MPI asking them not to share the data we previously collected !

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realhamed hamed haddadi

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@tnhh @zephoria maybe! I still go 4 open model :) twitter is not doing this 4public sake anyway I guess. prob 4 prevention of legal battles.

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realhamed hamed haddadi

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@tnhh I think facebook maybe, but twitter.. if u r publicly & globally announcing something. u shoudl be prepared 4 it 2 stay with u forever

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realhamed hamed haddadi

@guppiefish ah.. genius.. why hasn't this taken off yet then!.. maybe the uncool name? why didn't they drop the "source" from the name!

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realhamed hamed haddadi

so.. seems like we need an open version of twitter.. opentweet..., like wikipedia.. no ads, decentralized and publicly accessible..

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realhamed hamed haddadi

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@elsubliminal yeah i wonder if they'll ask MPI/KAIST to remove the datasets.. we already actually have 1-2 papers under review too

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realhamed hamed haddadi

WOW.. Twitetr changes policy and no longer allows crawls .. what a shame for social science research