Amazon wipes customer’s Kindle and deletes account with no explanation | Money | guardian.co.uk

An Amazon Kindle user has had her account wiped and all her paid-for books deleted by Amazon without warning or explanation.

The Norwegian woman, identified only as Linn on media commentator Martin Bekkelund’s blog, approached Amazon when she realised her Kindle had been wiped.

She was informed by a customer relations executive that her account had been closed, all open orders had been cancelled and all her content had been removed, but has been unable to find out why.

via Amazon wipes customer’s Kindle and deletes account with no explanation | Money | guardian.co.uk.

Teenagers warned: stuff you upload online may re-appear elsewhere online

Separately, young people have been warned they might lose control over images and videos once they are uploaded online.A study by the Internet Watch Foundation IWF found that 88 per cent of self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people are lifted from their original location and uploaded onto other websites.IWF analysts encountered more than 12,000 such images and videos spread over 68 websites. In many cases, parasitic pornographic websites are lifting photos and videos uploaded by teenagers onto social-networking sites. ®

via Four in ten Brits have had to change all their passwords to foil crooks • The Register.

The hoarder’s dilemma, or ‘Why can’t I throw anything away?’ • Reg Hardware

This is my problem with cables, old Apple gadgets and other electronics. VHS video player anyone?

“Now, I’ve not used it for 25 years but it still works and I have a vague notion that a science museum might want to acquire it one day, and that’s why I haven’t disposed of it yet. This symbolises my problem: in wanting to be zen, I am horrified by modern disposable culture. The promise of recycling isn’t enough when something isn’t actually broken beyond repair.”

via The hoarder’s dilemma, or ‘Why can’t I throw anything away?’ • Reg Hardware.

Models on Abercrombie Jet Had Rules on Proper Underwear – Bloomberg

It’s about time A&F had another lawsuit. Clean-shaven males had to wear a uniform of Abercrombie polo shirts, boxer briefs, flip-flops and a “spritz” of the retailer’s cologne, according to an “Aircraft Standards” manual, disclosed in an age-discrimination lawsuit brought by a former pilot. Among the 40-plus pages of detailed instructions: black gloves had to be used when handling silverware and white gloves to lay the table, the song “Take Me Home” had to be played when passengers entered the cabin on return flights and Jeffries’s dogs — identified in the document as Ruby, Trouble and Sammy — had different seating arrangements based on which ones were traveling.

Models on Abercrombie Jet Had Rules on Proper Underwear – Bloomberg.

BBC News – B&B ruling: Discrimination a right – Nick Griffin

Okay so there is a lot of buzz about this today but seriously people the point here is that it’s not a home it’s a business. I agree that you can choose who you allow into your home but if you choose to run a private hotel, guesthouse, B&B then you no longer have the same rights, you are a business and should be judged as any other business is.

It wouldn’t be okay for a high street store to discriminate, or an office to discriminate so it’s not okay for a B&B to either.

BBC News – B&B ruling: Discrimination a right – Nick Griffin.

EU data bosses order Google to sort out privacy • The Register

EU data regulators have told Google that it has to make changes to its new privacy policy due to “incomplete information and uncontrolled combination of data across services”.

The regulators, led by France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique (CNIL), have spent several months investigating the policy, which basically allows Google to mash up all its previous 60 policies into one document and grab data on folks from across their services.

via EU data bosses order Google to sort out privacy • The Register.