Sunday, April 24, 2011

Your Phone, Yourself: When is tracking too much?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- If you're worried about privacy, you can turn off the function on your smartphone that tracks where you go. But that means giving up the services that probably made you want a smartphone in the first place. After all, how smart is an iPhone or an Android if you can't use it to map your car trip or scan reviews of nearby restaurants?

The debate over digital privacy flamed higher this week with news that Apple Inc.'s popular iPhones and iPads store users' GPS coordinates for a year or more. Phones that run Google Inc.'s Android software also store users' location data. And not only is the data stored - allowing anyone who can get their hands on the device to piece together a chillingly accurate profile of where you've been - but it's also transmitted back to the companies to use for their own research.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

AP Exclusive: Millions in malaria drugs stolen

LONDON (AP) -- A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years, vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The internal investigation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria comes two months into a new anti-corruption program that the fund launched after an AP report detailing fraud in their grants attracted intense scrutiny from donors.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Tunisian court drops case at heart of protests

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A Tunisian court dropped charges Tuesday against a policewoman whose dispute with a fruit vendor who killed himself sparked a chain of events that unleashed uprisings around the Arab world.

The state news agency TAP says the case against Fedia Hamdi was closed after the vendor's family withdrew its original complaint. The family says it acted in a gesture of tolerance and an effort to heal wounds suffered in Tunisia's upheaval of recent months.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

New climate change case headed to Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with.

But they're on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants in 20 states to cut their emissions.

The administration is siding with American Electric Power Co. and three other companies in urging the high court to throw out the lawsuit on grounds the Environmental Protection Agency, not a federal court, is the proper authority to make rules about climate change. The justices will hear arguments in the case Tuesday.

Friday, April 8, 2011

A Consumer's Guidebook to Health Care Modernise

The six-month anniversary age 26 on your health plan if he or she can't get coverage through a job. New policies can't deny coverage for children capable age 19 based on pre-existing medical circumstances. "Grandfathered" plans can, even so, they as well can fix yearly dollar circumscribes on coverage and call for patients to aid invite a few cautionary avails.

Nearly people in the private market are awaited to move to recently plans by 2014. Analysts tell nearly plans in the group market will likely have suffered their "grandfathered" condition because of modifies prepared to it.