BT to cut emissions by 80%

BT will cut its carbon emissions intensity - the rate of emissions relative to GDP - by 80% of the company's 1996 levels by 2020, reports Computing.co.uk.

The firm also published a new model for measuring and tracking its carbon emissions, which is backed by independent body the Carbon Disclosure Project.

Known as the Climate Stabilisation Intensity target, the model creates a relationship between BT's CO2 emissions and its financial performance so that they become interdependent.

Add the Web pages for the Phoenix Mars Lander to the list of high-profile sites that have been hacked by script kiddies. Not once, but twice, says The Register.

Security pros had to take down the University of Arizona-hosted site after hackers replaced the lead blog entry with graffiti that read "hacked by VITAL".

Members of the self-declared "sql loverz crew" redirected baffled visitors of the Phoenix mission's official Web page and a companion site to a third-party destination. That page gave credit to hackers going by the names BLaSTER and Cr@zy_king.

A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site, Facebook, accusing it of violating privacy laws, reports BBC.co.uk.

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has listed 22 separate breaches of privacy law in its country. Clinic director Phillipa Lawson told the BBC that, with more than seven million users in Canada, "Facebook needs to be held publicly accountable".

Facebook rejects the charge, claiming some of the highest standards around.