California is considering a bill that would force social networking sites to rejigger how they go about privacy settings for new users.
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That surplus is expected to end as early as 2015, and force Social Security to dip into other sources of government revenues to pay retirees.
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His music aside, Criolo also is a force for social change in Brazil.
Vivisimo has more than 140 customers which include Airbus, U.S. Air Force, Social Security Administration and the U.S. Navy, among others.
Twitter has been the dominant force in Social TV (at least from a public data point of view) and it grew organically.
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Bebo said it also worked with a variety of organisations, including anti-bullying groups, the Home Office internet task force on social network, and the Department for Education.
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Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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The Director-General called on political leaders to build on the potential of culture as a force for social cohesion and dialogue: "The role of culture in development should be fully recognized by policy makers, especially at a time when the new development agenda is being defined, " she said.
Revenge is still a powerful motivating force in Iraqi social life.
Images of mock dating profiles outlining potential suitors' real personalities are being hosted on the force's social media accounts in an effort to unmask abusers' behaviour.
Now for the twist: Kutcher, a multi-million fan-generating force of the social media world, has decided to not only list the for sale property online, but open the doors to money-making masses, via e-commerce site Gilt.com.
Last September, the Director's Guild of America Task Force on Violence and Social Responsibility urged the film industry to adopt references that more clearly delineate a film's "intended" audience.
Conway has been the most vociferous in expressing the concerns he shares with the other chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force about engaging in social experimentation that risks breaking the only armed forces we have during wartime.
But again, part of this is saying we want to force employers to bear that social cost.
Yet our collective social responsibility may force us to pause and ask about the relative tradeoffs among the people we serve.
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Over and over, I heard people talking about how digital is a force for democratization, for social justice, for economic empowerment all over the world.
He wanted the Sandinistas to become a modern social-democratic force.
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The force said that its online social networking policy was being updated "to take into account a number of recent social media cases nationally and lessons learned elsewhere as we recognise social media is a fast-changing environment".
Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
Similarly, Facebook and Twitter send login credentials over a secure line and then revert to an unsecure protocol. (Users of those social networks can add an "s" after "http" to force the systems to encrypt their browsing.) Social networking sites are where people increasingly conduct private conversations, whether through Facebook's Messages or Twitter's Direct Message feature.
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Netflix, HP, Verizon and others learned that social media uprisings can force policy shifts in a matter of hours.
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They included doctors and police, but social workers bore the force of anger.
At IBM, Iwata says, executives realize the company's 400, 000 employees--and its 900, 000 "alumni"--are a powerful marketing force, thanks to blogs and social media.
Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change.
IETF's founders, to launch last year an Internet societal task force as a forum for deliberating social and economic issues thrown up by the spread of the Internet.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
It is the first time the force has bought an advertisement on the social networking site.
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They also agree that social media is an unstoppable force that adds speed and efficiency to just about everything.
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In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.
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