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The Dangers of Facebook Oversharing

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Can too much sharing get you in trouble?

How much is too much information when it comes to sharing on Facebook? When does sharing become oversharing, and when does it become a personal safety risk? Some people out there actually like oversharing, and some don't. Let's take a look at both the lovers and the haters of oversharing:

Stalkers love oversharing:

Let's face it, the Facebook Timeline is like a scrapbook for stalkers. Timeline provides an easy interface where your friends, and depending on your privacy settings, any toad in the world can have quick access to all the things that you've ever posted on Facebook.

Stalkers just need to click on the year and month that they're interested in and Facebook Timeline takes them right to it.

With the 60 or so new apps that allow for what Facebook execs are calling "frictionless sharing", nearly every aspect of your life is potentially on display for stalkers to follow.

From the music you're listening to, to where you're "checking in" at in the real world, these little tidbits of information can help your stalker learn your patterns so they can know where to find you.

It's best to limit the sharing of your location on Facebook as much as possible or not share it at all. Use Facebook friends lists to organize your friends. Create a list of your most trusted friends and set your privacy settings to allow more access for trusted friends and highly limited access to acquaintances who might end up being stalkers.

Thieves love oversharing:

Want to make yourself an easy target for thieves?

The easiest way to do this is to share your location information on Facebook.

If you just "checked-in" at the local gym and posted this to Facebook, then any thief who is trolling Facebook profiles will know that you are not at home. This would be a great time to rob you.

You may have restricted your privacy settings on Facebook to just friends, but what if a friend is logged into a publicly accessible computer, such as at a library, and forgets to log out or has their cell phone stolen?

You can't expect that your friends are the only ones who have access to your status and location just because your privacy settings are set to friends only.

Some Facebook apps that share your location may have more relaxed privacy settings than you are comfortable with and may be blabbing your location without you realizing it.

Check your privacy settings and also check to see what information your Facebook apps are sharing with your friends and the rest of the world. Limit them as much as possible to protect your privacy and personal safety. Never ever post that you are home alone.

Lawyers love oversharing:

Anything you do on Facebook can and may be used against you in a court of law. Lawyers absolutely love Facebook because it helps greatly in establishing a person's character and where and when something took place. Facebook does a lot of legwork that a private investigator would normally have to do, such as learning who a person associates with (i.e. who their friends are).

Are you in the middle of a custody battle? Posting pictures on Facebook of yourself getting tanked at a party could help your ex-spouse with their case against you. Facebook postings often reflect our moods. A ranting status post might get you labeled aggressive or abusive by a lawyer trying to make a case against you.

Avoid posting while you're angry or drunk. If you're tagged in a picture that might be considered inappropriate, you can "untag" yourself so that the picture is not associated with your profile.

Remember that even if you removed a posting after it appeared, the post might have still been caught in a screenshot or sent in an email notification. There's no guaranteed take-backs on Facebook, so always think before you post.

Employers hate oversharing

Your employer is probably not a huge fan of oversharing. Whether you're at work or not, your actions can affect your company's image, especially since most people put who they work for in their Facebook profile.

If your employer reviews Facebook activity and sees a ton of it while you're supposed to be working, they might use this against you at some point. If you say you're sick and then your Facebook location says your checking-in at the local movie theater, this might tip off your employer that you're playing hooky.

Potential employers might also request a look at your Facebook profile to learn more about you. You might consider reviewing your Timeline to see if there is anything that might cause them not to hire you.

Worried about your friends posting something stupid on your wall or tagging you in an unflattering picture that might affect a potential job offer? Turn on the Tag Review and Post Review features so that you can decide what gets posted about you before a post goes live.

There are some things you should never post on Facebook. Use your best judgement and take responsibility for what you post about yourself and others.

CIL unions seek Rs 20 per tonne levy for company's pension fund

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KOLKATA: Coal IndiaBSE -1.54 %'s unions are demanding a levy Rs 20 per tonne on the dry fuel to help the company's pension fund get enough cash. The state-run company is likely to send this proposal soon to the central government, sources said.

“We would want the Centre to impose a levy on each tonne of coal sold to save the pension fund. It would go into inflating the fund size and help reduce the large liability gap it is facing today,“ said DD Ramanandan, president of the All India coal workers federation ..

Employees also want to increase their contribution to the fund to 7% of their salary from 4.91% and the company to contribute a similar percentage. Currently, Coal India doesn't make any payment. But the government contributes Rs 324 per person every year which also the unions want to be enhanced.

There are around 3 lakh Coal India pensioners. The pension fund may not suffice to pay pensions to all retired employees in the fut ..

The pension fund may not suffice to pay pensions to all retired employees in the future. Two studies in 2014 showed the fund had an about Rs 26,000 crore deficit and that it was widening.

R Mohan Das, human resource director at Coal India, said the outflows from the fund were almost the same as inflows from interest earnings and employee contributions. “After 2010-11, about 15,000-20,000 employees retired every year for four years and the retirement rate has now come down

to 6,0007,000 every year. However, with so many retiring for the last six years, the fund is under strain,“ he said.

A union leader said the fund was in deficit due to wage hikes, which increase the pension as well since it is calcula ted on the basis of the lastdrawn salary.

A commissioner from Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation, an independent body that manages the company's pension fund, said every year the outgo from the fund was about . Rs 1,440 crore, while employees contributed Rs 1,200 crore, leaving a deficit of abo ut Rs 240 crore.

Coal miners rescued as fighting increases in eastern Ukraine

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AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP)

(1 of 1) A worker carries a metal rod at the front-line Avdiivka coking plant in eastern Ukraine. Fighting between government troops and separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, killing several people overnight, injuring many more and trapping 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported.

January 31, 2017

Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine. The mine is notorious for poor safety standards; 33 people were killed there in 2015 by a methane blast.

With elevators not working, the miners were trapped underground for several hours before local authorities found backup generators outside the mine to get the elevators working. By late afternoon on Tuesday all 207 men were able to get out.

Separatist military spokesman Eduard Basurin, in an interview with Russian state Rossiya 24 television on Tuesday, denied reports that separatist shelling cut power lines and heating stations in Avdiivka, a government-controlled town on the northern outskirts of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, saying they had been damaged earlier.

The artillery shelling, which appears to be the worst in many months, was concentrated around Avdiivka. The director of the town's giant coking plant said on Monday that preparations were being made to stop production, something rarely done throughout the conflict that has claimed more than 9,700 lives since it began in 2014.

Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council, said on Tuesday that heavy shelling around Avdiivka killed at least three government troops and injured 24 more. The press office of the Ukrainian government's operation in the east reported an unspecified number of civilian casualties. It also said the rebels turned down the government's offer to cease fire to allow the removal of the dead and wounded.

The rebels' Donetsk News Agency reported four fighters died and seven were injured overnight as well as three civilians. One civilian was killed in shelling in Donetsk on Tuesday morning, Basurin told Russian news agencies.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday accused the Ukrainian government of provoking the crisis. The Kremlin has "reliable information" that Ukrainian volunteer battalions crossed the front line Monday night and tried to capture rebel territory, Peskov told reporters in Moscow.

Salvos of heavy-caliber artillery were heard throughout the night and late morning in Avdiivka, where several thousand people have been without electricity for days. Fighting has cut water supplies for most of the town and it was left without heating in the dead of winter. Temperatures plunged to minus 18 Celsius (0 F) on Tuesday morning.

The Avdiivka coking plant, which has switched to natural gas supply after power was cut off on Tuesday, is providing some heating to homes in the town even though its gas reserves are running low, director Musa Magomedov told The Associated Press.

Pavlo Zhebrivsky, head of the administration in charge of the government-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, said on Facebook his office was working on a plan to evacuate 12,000 residents from Avdiivka.

With no signs of an organized evacuation in sight some residents went to a local bus station, hoping to get away. Volodymyr Bassak, 67, was waiting for a bus Tuesday morning to go to the city of Kharkiv some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north after his home had been without heating for several days.

"The house was shaking — (shelling) was really intense at about four in the morning," he said as he brushed tears from his eyes. Kiev-based independent political analyst Vadim Karasyov said an escalation in the east could be beneficial to both the separatists and the Ukrainian government.

"Kiev is eager to win support of the new Trump administration, and for this they need to show that separatists and the Kremlin are derailing the peace accords," he said. "For the Kremlin, it's important to show that it holds war and peace in its hands — if the new U.S. administration wants peace in Ukraine, it needs to offer something in return."

Ukraine is concerned that the Donald Trump administration could ease some US sanctions on Russia imposed for its interference in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday that the escalation in fighting underlines that sanctions must be kept in place, "in order to bring the aggressor to justice."

Both sides in the conflict committed to cease fire and pull back heavy weaponry under a 2015 truce which they have violated several times. The European Union, whose member states France and Germany helped to broker the Minsk peace accords, expressed concern over this week's fighting. The EU in a statement on Monday called on both sides to stop fighting immediately to allow for the urgent repair of critical infrastructure.

Vasilyeva reported from Moscow. Yuras Karmanau in Minsk, Belarus, and Raf Casert in Brussels contributed to this report.

Indian government report weighs idea of cash handouts to fight poverty

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Handing cash to Indians rather than providing the poor with cheap food or guaranteed jobs would nearly eradicate poverty but at a cost of 4 to 5 percent of gross domestic product, a government report said on Tuesday.

Universal basic income (UBI), a radical idea that is gaining attention in countries such as Finland and France, proposes giving every citizen an income to cover their basic needs.

Several economists advocate cash transfers in Asia's third-largest economy, where despite rapid economic growth one in three of the world's extreme poor reside. An emergency medical payment or bad harvest risks a return to poverty for millions more.

The annual Economic Survey, which forms the basis of the annual Indian budget Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present on Wednesday, said UBI was a persuasive alternative for replacing existing welfare programs. Yet it warned about implementation risks and the potential cost to government.

"The key merit of it is that it has the potential to improve the weak targeting of current schemes," Arvind Subramanian, the ministry's chief economic adviser, told a news briefing.

Under the survey's calculation, a UBI that cuts the poverty rate to 0.5 percent of the population would cost 4 to 5 percent of GDP. The calculation presumes that the richest quarter of Indians do not get the income, because it says any program cannot in practice strive for strict universality.

At 2011/12 prices, the basic income would amount to 5,400 rupees ($79.59) per person per year. Some economists have questioned whether payments of that size could eliminate poverty.

Tackling entrenched poverty has preoccupied policymakers since India ended colonial rule in 1947, and in the survey Subramanian said he drew on the wisdom of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi in weighing the social justice of a basic income.

HEAVY SUBSIDIES

India currently spends 3 percent of GDP on subsidies, much of them for the middle class. It pays billions of dollars for some of the world's largest welfare schemes, including cheap food for more than 800 million people and jobs for 50 million households.

"Our main fear is that Universal Basic Income is just being used to replace existing social schemes," said Reetika Khera, an economist at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. "This is a system that is tried and tested and showing signs of improvement."

The survey cautioned that it was not yet advocating introduction of UBI.

A basic income risked becoming too costly, and India would need to improve identification schemes to ensure transfers reached beneficiaries, it said.

Critics of India's existing programs say they are undermined by corruption and leakages.

Subramanian cited research showing schemes reached more people in the areas where they were least needed, because of the weak capacity of the state in less developed ones.

"The advantage of UBI is that we can get around this," he said.

Many economists expect Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party to cut back on populist welfare schemes expanded under his predecessor. So far he has shown little willingness to embrace bolder structural reforms.

(Reporting by Tommy Wilkes; Editing by Richard Borsuk)

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Foreign state seen behind hack into Czech Foreign Ministry email

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By Robert Muller | PRAGUE

Hackers have breached dozens of email accounts at the Czech Foreign Ministry in an attack resembling one against the U.S. Democratic Party that the former Obama administration blamed on Russia, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said on Tuesday.

He said he was told by experts the cyber-attacks were likely conducted by a foreign state. He said the ministry's internal communication system was not affected and no confidential material was compromised, though an extensive amount of data was stolen.

Zaoralek, whose email account was also hit, did not name any countries he thought may be responsible for the attack.

"When I discussed this with the best experts that we have here, they told me that the character of the attack was such that the attack was very sophisticated, that it must have been, according to them, conducted by some foreign state, from the outside," Zaoralek told a news conference.

"They also told me that the way the attack was done very much resembles the character of attacks against the system of the Democratic Party in the United States."

A government source told Reuters authorities suspect the attacks originated from Russia.

Zaoralek said the ministry had known since the beginning of January that hackers had breached its email, and added it was necessary to check whether other key government institutions have also been attacked, something he said was possible.

He said the ministry was not registering any further attacks at the moment.

The Czech Republic is a member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and of the European Union.

In October last year, Czech police detained Russian citizen Yevgeniy Nikulin, who has been indicted in the United State for hacking computers of social media companies. The U.S. and Russia have both requested his extradition. The state attorney office has yet to file its recommendations on the requests.

Obama administration officials said Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election campaign meant to tar the reputation of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and help Republican Donald Trump to victory. Russia denied this.

Trump later acknowledged that Russia likely hacked the Democratic National Committee and the emails of top Democrats during the presidential election.

Russian officials have denied all accusations of manipulation and interference intended to sway the U.S. election outcome or weaken the European Union.

In December, Germany's domestic intelligence agency reported a striking increase in Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilizing German society, and targeted cyber attacks against political parties.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she could not rule out Russia interfering in Germany's 2017 election through Internet attacks and misinformation campaigns.

(Additional reporting by Jan Lopatka; writing by Jason Hovet; editing by Mark Heinrich and Dominic Evans)

Israel "regrets misunderstanding" with Mexico over wall tweet

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Israel's president on Tuesday told his Mexican counterpart that he "regretted the misunderstanding" over a tweet in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to praise U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to build a wall on the Mexican border.

In a tweet on Saturday that drew a rebuke from Mexico, the right-wing Netanyahu wrote: "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea."

Netanyahu had earlier sidestepped Mexico's demand for an Israeli apology and echoed previous Israeli explanations - rejected as insufficient by Mexico's foreign minister on Monday - of his remarks on Twitter, saying those comments did not refer to ties between the United States and its southern neighbor.

"I regret any offence that was caused from this misunderstanding but it is important to note that this was only a misunderstanding and I am certain that we can put the matter behind us," a statement from President Reuven Rivlin's office quoted him as telling Mexican President Enrique Pena Neto.

Rivlin's post as president is largely ceremonial and the long statement appeared to stop short of a full apology that Mexico had called for.

"I think an apology ... would be appropriate in this case," Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said following Netanyahu's tweet, while noting that Israel was a "close friend" of Mexico.

Netanyahu, in public remarks on Monday, said he had been referring to Trump's praise for the barrier Israel constructed along the Egyptian frontier, a fence with electronic sensors that has largely halted the influx of African migrants.

"I did point out the remarkable success of Israel's security fence. But I did not comment about U.S.-Mexico relations. We've had, and will continue to have, good relations with Mexico," Netanyahu said in English at a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

Trump's planned border wall, which he says will keep out illegal immigrants, along with his threat to impose punitive taxes against Mexico to rebalance trade, has brought about the worst crisis in bilateral relations for decades.

Political commentators and opposition politicians in Israel said Netanyahu's tweet had needlessly thrust Israel into the U.S.-Mexican feud.

At the Tel Aviv conference, Netanyahu said that Israeli-Mexican ties "are much stronger than any passing disagreement or misunderstanding". He voiced confidence that a "long, fruitful and very friendly relationship" with Pena Nieto would continue.

(Additional reporting by Ori Lewis and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem and Dave Graham in Mexico City; editing by Mark Heinrich)

Philippines' Duterte asks China to patrol piracy-plagued waters

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he had asked China to help in the fight against Islamic State-linked militants by sending ships to patrol southern waters plagued by raids on commercial vessels.

Speaking to newly promoted army generals, Duterte said he had sought China's help in dangerous waters in the south to check the activities of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim rebel group sustained by piracy and kidnap-for-ransom activities.

A surge in piracy off parts of the Philippines is forcing ship-owners to divert vessels through other waters, pushing up costs and shipping times.

Duterte said piracy in the Sulu Sea between eastern Malaysia and the southern Philippines would escalate to levels seen in Somalia, and raise insurance costs for firms and increase prices of consumer goods and services.

"We would be glad if they have their presence there ... just to patrol," Duterte said, adding that China could send coastguard vessels, not necessarily "gray" warships.

"In the Malacca Strait and here in Sulu Sea remains to be a big problem," he said. The Malacca Strait, between Malaysia's west coast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has over the years also been plagued by pirates.

He did not say if China had responded.

The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia had an agreement to patrol and tackle the Abu Sayyaf in the Sulu and Celebes Sea after they kidnapped the crew of Indonesian and Malaysian tug boats and South Korean and Vietnamese merchant ships.

Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana last week said cooperation might be expanded to include Brunei and Singapore. The United States has also expressed concern about the security problem and held exercises with Malaysia and the Philippines last year.

Lorenzana said on Tuesday the military had intensified operations on land with the aim of defeating Abu Sayyaf within six months.

(Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Martin Petty, Robert Birsel)

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