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MENTAL DISORDERS ILLUSTRATED BY WINNIE THE POOH AND HIS FRIENDS

This is sort of a dark and depressing take on mental disorders by Winnie the Pooh and characters. I don’t know about you, but these kinda gave me a serious case of the sads.

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Oh good. Now Facebook can track our health browsing habits

WARNING The NHS has come under fire for passing data on people browsing its website to Facebook and other companies.

The NHS Choices website allows Facebook and Google to track visits without informing the user, MPTom Watson said in a letter to health minister Andrew Lansley. The tracking first came to light in a blog post by University of Southampton researcher Mischa Tuffield, who was looking into the Facebook 'Like' button on the health department's site.

"I write to you to express my concern that the NHS is allowing Google, Facebook and others to track your http://www.nhs.uk/ browsing habits, regardless of the fact that people use the page to seek medical advice," Watson wrote on Tuesday.

Four third-party tracking companies are informed every time a user visits one of the 'conditions' pageson the NHS Choices website, Tuffield said in his blog post on Sunday. The 'conditions' pages give advice on medical conditions, including testicular cancer.

Facebook is informed if a logged-in member goes to the NHS website, while tracking organisationsGoogle Analytics, WebTrends and addthiscdn.com also monitor browser sessions involving the site.

The problem with Facebook arises because the NHS Choices website has social-networking functionality, Tuffield said. The website incorporates Facebook's 'Like' button, in an effort to encourage users to publicise health advice.

Tuffield checked the tracking with a tool called tcpdump, which is used to log internet traffic. Every time a user visits a 'conditions' page, Facebook makes a request to the browser to check for a Facebook cookie. If a cookie is present, the browser tells Facebook that the particular user has visited a given page on www.nhs.uk.

Everytime anyone visits a page with a 'Like' button, various information is sent to Facebook, regardless of whether the button is clicked, said Tuffield.

The social-networking company makes requests for user information from browsers visiting the NHS website and gets it without the user's consent, according to Tuffield.

"What right has the NHS to share any information about the browsing of NHS Choices with Facebook?" Tuffield told ZDNet UK. "The Like button is engineered such that even if it is not clicked, it still passes information about the user to Facebook, if they happen to be logged in to Facebook at the time you visit."

In response, the NHS said the onus is on users to monitor their privacy on Facebook.

"When users sign up to Facebook they agree Facebook can gather information on their web use," the NHS said in a statement on Wednesday. "NHS Choices' privacy policy, which is on the homepage of the site, makes this clear. We advise that people log out of Facebook properly, not just close the window, to ensure no inadvertent data transfer."

A Facebook spokeswoman told ZDNet UK that the company can see technical information about a member when the user is logged into Facebook and visits the NHS site. It can see a user ID, which Facebook can link to a member profile, and the IP address and operating system of the machine being used to browse.

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If a person is logged into Facebook and 'likes' a page on NHS Choices, the person will be targeted with adverts that are relevant to the page, said the spokeswoman. The information on the medical interests on the member will not be passed to advertisers, she added.

"Facebook does not share your data with third parties," said the company in a statement. "It is against Facebook's terms to use this data for any purpose other than to create a more personalised experience on the web. In the same way that the NHS would not share your data, Facebook would not either."

The social-networking company has come under repeated fire over the past year over its privacy policies, and at the beginning of November, it suspended a group of application developers for passing user IDs to advertising and data firms.

The data collected by Google Analytics is used only for web analytics purposes, according to the NHS. Google confirmed that the information is not used for advertising.

"The data collected by Google Analytics is not used by Google for anything other than reporting site usage back to site owners who use Google Analytics and helping them improve the efficiency and usability of their website," the company said in a statement.

SOURCE http://www.zdnet.co.uk/

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First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft

The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and according to this initial rundown, the browser that most closely adheres to the latest set of web standards is...Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.

Yes, the HTML5 spec has yet to finalized. And yes, these tests cover only a portion of the spec. But we can still marvel at just how much Microsoft's browser philosophy has changed in recent months.

The W3C tests — available here — put IE9 beta release 6 at the top of the HTML5 conformance table, followed by Google Chrome 7, the Firefox 4 beta 6, Opera 10.6, and Safari 5.0. The tests cover seven aspects of the spec: "attributes", "audio", "video", "canvas", "getElementsByClassName", "foreigncontent," and "xhtml5":

The tests do not yet cover web workers, the file API, local storage, or other aspects of the spec.

Not do they cover CSS or other standards that have nothing to do with HTML5 but are somehow lumped under HTML5 by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. As Mozilla man Asa Dotzler pointed out, when Microsoft released its IE9 platform preview 6, it said that its "HTML5 features include CSS3 2D Transforms."

"WTF, Microsoft? Are you trying to add more confusion to the conversation?" Dotzler wrote.

"HTML5 features include CSS3? That's seriously confused. Please stop this. HTML5 is HTML. CSS3 is CSS. They two are not the same thing."

But at the same time, Dotzler praised Microsoft's browser. Its terminology may be wanting, but at least Microsoft has finally acknowledged the existence of web standards. "I'm a huge fan of IE9," he said. "I predicted many months ago that it was going to be a killer release for Web standards and that's definitely happening."

Source The Register