Exfoliate Your Facebook

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Since 1991, mobile phone numbers have been excluded from telemarketers’ lists, political campaigners, and other unwanted, unsolicited phone marketers. Now, there’s a bill in the US House of Representatives called The “Mobile Informational Call Act” or HR 3035.
It is an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 and will allow political organizations, committees, and action groups to contact you on your mobile phone.

Valve’s Steam platform has been hit by hackers. Although the gaming company says there’s no evidence the intruders made off with users’ credit card numbers or personal information, its asking customers to change passwords and keep a close eye on their statements.

The Russian space agency

NASA’s next generation rocket engine has passed its second wave of experiments, blasting through a 500-second test burst. The new rocket is primed to power the agency’s forthcoming Space Launch System, currently pegged for launch in 2017. The Orion spacecraft will be able to piggyback on the SLS, expanding the range of space travel.

Michael Devine is a programmer who was looking fora job earlier this year. He realized potential employers might not be as impressed by his FB posts as his friends were. So, he wrote an android app called Exfoliate that allows you to delete batches of posts based on how long they’ve been up.

It only took two long months, over 186,000 signatures on a petition to Mark Zuckerberg, and finally a furious Twitter campaign to get Facebook to remove Pages that graphically celebrated and encouraged rape and sexual violence.

Timeline is potentially an omnivorous collector of personal data that you can format to tell your story. Countless software developers will create applications that not only provide a function but also automatically sends the data generated by those activities to Facebook.