Lost pets get Facebook page
August 22, 2011 by admin
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TAMPA –
Facebook gives its users the chance to plow the fields of FarmVille or update their friends on what they’re having for dinner.
Hillsborough County Animal Services recently decided to use the popular social networking website to help pet owners reconnect with their lost animals.
In late July, the agency launched the “Lost and Found Pets of Hillsborough County” page on Facebook.
“A couple of years ago, there weren’t as many people using Facebook, and certainly not for this,” said Marti Ryan, community relations coordinator for animal services. “This is a very specific project for this specific purpose.”
Users can go to the page and post a photo and description of their missing pet.
Volunteers at the county shelter, at 440 N. Falkenburg Road, keep an eye out for animals that match the description of those posted Facebook.
Nancy Latimer of Seffner first began volunteering for animal services in 2007.
“When I first started, I’d escort people through the shelter and help them look for their pets,” Latimer said.
The Facebook page adds another way to reunite lost pets with their owners. Though it’s early, Latimer is happy with the page and says it has already led to some success stories.
John Ceballos
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Report: German state bans Facebook’s ‘like’ button
August 22, 2011 by admin
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A state in Germany has banned the “Like” button on social networking site Facebook, at least for its institutions, a tech site reported on Saturday (Manila time).
Mashable reported the German state of Schleswig-Holstein ordered state institutions to shut down their Facebook pages and remove the “Like” button from their websites or face fines.
The article quoted a Facebook spokesperson as denying the claims that the social networking giant is not compliant with EU data protection standards, but added Facebook will look into it.
“We will review the materials produced by the ULD [the data protection agency], both on our own behalf and on the behalf of web users throughout Germany,” the spokesperson said.
The Mashable article Schleswig-Holstein’s data-protection commissioner Thilo Weichert as saying an analysis from his office found Facebook was building profiles of users and non-users with data collected by the Like button – a potential violation of German and European data protection laws.
It also cited a statement in German, where the data-protection organization urged Internet users “to keep their fingers from clicking on social plugins” like the Like button to avoid being profiled.
This was the latest clash between German regulators and Facebook – earlier this month, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg warned Facebook’s new automatic photo-tagging feature could violate European privacy laws. — LBG, GMA News