Intel reneges on Irish job cut promise

Intel plans to slash between 200 and 300 jobs in Ireland, despite chairman Craig Barrett assuring Intel workers last month that its Leixlip plant was in no immediate danger of job cuts, says The Register.

Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy says the cuts are part of the company's overall scheme of consolidating its manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs.

He adds the preferred method for the workforce reduction will be through Intel's voluntary redundancy programme. Intel's Leixlip unit employs about 5 000 staff in Ireland.

The British Standards Institute (BSI) has introduced an official kitemark to allow companies to show they are prepared for an IT disaster, reports Computing.co.uk.

The standard will show that a company has an effective strategy to deal with the loss of Internet, e-mail or company information, providing reassurance to business partners.

The kitemark was created after advice taken from industry and government experts, says Mike Low, director of business standards at the BSI.

The row over Facebook's change in its terms of service governing users' personal data highlights the need for a privacy law, says the BBC.

The Electronic Privacy Information Centre was on the brink of filing a legal complaint when Facebook announced it would revert to its old policy.

The new terms seemingly gave Facebook vast control over users' content.

A Pennsylvania judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Pittsburgh-area couple against Google. The couple had alleged Google had invaded their privacy by including their house and street, a private road, on its Google StreetView, available on Google Maps, reports CRN.com.

Judge Amy Reynolds Hay of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania found that Google did not cause harm to Aaron and Christine Boring.

"The plaintiffs have failed to plead, much less set out facts supporting, a plausible claim of entitlement to injunctive relief," Hay wrote in her findings.