Facebook has a history of making changes that increase the amount of information its members share by default, only to backtrack after criticism.
In line with the cash share price tumble the Credit Default Swap on BP broke higher by 20 basis points 10 trade at 103bps over 3 month LIBOR.
If Facebook was sincere about protecting privacy the default mode would be to share the least amount of data and you would have to opt in to broader sharing.
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When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default.
The most sweeping intervention of all came from Ireland's government, where concerns about spiking credit-default swap (CDS) spreads, falling share prices and jittery depositors led the finance minister to announce, on September 30th, a blanket guarantee on the deposits and almost all the debts of the country's six biggest banks until September 2010.
This requirement would ensure that there is broad support in Congress for increasing debt as a share of the economy without its decision being held hostage to default on the debt or Social Security.
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As I explain in this paper, credit derivatives are merely a financial tool that can be used by those exposed to credit risk, say a default by the Greek government or General Electric, to share that risk with others.
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So, if Greece were to default it would be the taxpayers who would carry the largest share of the burden.
Knowing this may influence the decision about whether the EU and IMF should require Greek bond holders to share in the pain with some form of debt restructuring, re-profiling or default.
It added that anyone aged under-17 could not share any of their posts publicly, and all location services were switched off by default, although they could be activated if the young person chose.
That will let users link their Facebook account to their Netflix account and automatically share what they watch with others, although sharing will be limited to Netflix by default -- Facebook sharing needs to be enabled in the "Social Settings" on the Netflix website.
Failing to make this basic distinction helped lead to serious errors in outlook during the late 1980s, during which many observers who generally share sound presuppositions about the nature of the economy were given to histrionic predictions of national default, debt monetization, and hyperinflation.
Assuming bondholders stand firm, then euro-zone governments face a straight choice: Either they step in to take a share of the losses for the first time in the crisis or they allow Greece to default, something they have fought hard to avoid for the past two years.
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Facebook also makes some money off Facebook games like Farmville, which share revenue with the social network, but is hoping to move beyond just Zynga to become the "default" platform for mobile games from all developers.
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Although it does not call for a default on Brazil's public debt, as it once did, it talks of capping the share of tax receipts that goes on debt servicing, which does not sound very different from defaulting.
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