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The Seoul police raided Google’s office here Tuesday on suspicion that its mobile advertising unit, AdMob, had illegally collected users’ location data without users’ consent, the police said.

According to the complaint filed on Tuesday, Aaron’s has been using a product called “PC Rental Agent” on its rent-to-own machines since at least 2007 in order to “surreptitiously access, monitor, intercept, and/or transmit electronic communications” made by Aaron’s customers. Created by a company called DesignerWare, PC Rental Agent is advertised as a way to keep track of rent-to-own computers and lock out customers who fail to pay. According to the lawsuit, the product was sold to Aaron’s under the guise that it was undetectable by users, and Aaron’s apparently conceals the fact that it has the ability to monitor customers’ activity when marketing its services.

How intricately involved is the US in Canadian copyright policy? Consider this Wikileaks cable from August 2007, a message from the Ottawa embassy. In it, Ailish Johnson, economic development policy analyst for Canada’s Privy Council Office, is quoted as updating a US embassy officer on Canadian IP developments. The Privy Council provides “essential advice and support to the Prime Minister and Cabinet,” in its own words.

Nature punishes single points of failure because some level of failure is inevitable. Our focus needs to be on containing cascades of failure, and increasing our ability to swiftly recover from those failures. That limits the damage when we’re wrong, and we need to acknowledge the fact that we will sometimes be wrong.

What was missing on these services, for the most part, was original reporting. That was left up to the news media, particularly the few that had reporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Our Kabul reporters spoke to Afghan security chiefs who said it comes too late — there is now a Bin Laden on every street,” Peter Horrocks, the director of BBC Global News, said in an e-mail.

Two weeks ago, several reports indicated Apple had tweaked its App Store algorithm to better promote apps in the Top Free charts based on “ratings and active usage”, rather than download numbers, which could be easily altered by developers using techniques like pay-per-install networks (which Apple doesn’t accept anymore) and promo codes.