Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100m Facebook Profiles Off BitTorrent 
So Much For Freedom Of Information... 
The State Of Internet Music On YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Facebook Now The Government Wants ISPs To Log Every Website You Visit 
Giz Explains: The Future Of Storage 
Giz Explains: How Data Dies (And How It Can Be Saved) It’s amazing how little some people value digital privacy. In a recent study, given the choice between one digital service with strong privacy and one 65 cents cheaper without such promises, consumers opted for the cheaper option.
Dropbox has announced a new release of its desktop and Android software, which means that the service can now automatically upload your photographs to your Dropbox account automatically. Yes, that’s exactly like iCloud and Google+, but it’s good news for anyone who doesn’t use either of those services. [Dropbox]
Facebook already built its own data center and its own servers. And now the social-networking giant is building its own storage hardware – hardware for housing all the digital stuff uploaded by its more than 845 million users.
A report out of the UK suggests that mobile carriers ‘lost’ something in the region of $US13.9 billion in SMS charges due to the rise of instant messaging services on smartphones. It’s left me wondering: What relevance do mobile voice and SMS charges have in an IP world anyway?
Nokia Siemens is going to demo HSPA+ Multiflow — a new cell tech that lets phones talk to two cell towers at once — at Mobile World Congress. It’s the first time that the tech, which can apparently double data speeds, will be shown working on stuff you might actually be able to buy.
On Valentine’s Day, I may have an unexpected present: My websites might all go dark, and a decade’s worth of data may vanish. My host’s domain registration is set to expire tomorrow, and the man behind it has disappeared.
Foxconn has more to worry about. As well as struggling to deal with allegations of exploitative working conditions in its factories, it’s now had the bad fortune of being hacked, having login and password information spread across the web.
Scientists have mapped the entire energy use of New York City, building by building. The interactive map, created by Bianca Howard, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, uses publicly available data to work out which buildings are using the most energy and how they are using it.
