Do you trust Facebook?

When I logged into my Facebook last night I had a message about my privacy settings.  It confused me. My first thought was that the message was going to encourage me to strenghten my privacy settings. But in fact it was the opposite:  they wanted me to reveal more.  I felt like I was being tricked.

Seems that I am not the only one who feels like this.  Many of Facebooks 350 million users have expressed anger at the site for changing privacy settings, which they say can cause personal information to be inadvertently exposed.

Egypt’s steel wall: will this work?

Egypt has begun building a massive metal barrier along its frontier with the Gaza Strip, in an effort to cut cross-border smuggling. Intelligence sources have told the BBC that the wall will be ten kilometres long and will extend eighteen metres underground.

This is why we talked about Tiger

We got a lot of heat from you for talking about Tiger Woods – especially from the States. ‘It’s WHYS: the tabloid edition’ said Alan in Arizona, and quite a few of you said you were turning off. But I’m afraid the more I look at this story and the way we’re consuming it the more I think there is plenty to talk about and the more I think it is far from trivial. This is why…

On air: Why can’t we take our eyes off Tiger?

I was sitting near one of our most esteemed news programmes yesterday. About 20 minutes before they were on air which website do you think most of the producers were looking at? TMZ.com.

And I’m not saying this as a criticism – I was on it as well. Details were coming through of Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law being taken to hospital, and we all wanted to know more.

I can’t speak for the others, but I wasn’t doing it for professional reasons.

Are the poor hiding behind the rich when it comes to climate change?

It’s rich vs poor at Copenhagen following yesterday’s leak of a draft document .  Developing countries think the document  sets unfair limits on per capita carbon emissions and hands over too much power to industrialised nations. 

Is the industrial world passing the buck? Or should the poor stop hiding in the past to stop them from acting in the future?

Has the west done enough to find this man?

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged over the weekend that the US have little or no recent intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

So is it time to stop looking for him?

Or do you agree with General McChrystal who yesterday said “I don’t think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he’s captured or killed” ? Is Osama bin Laden too iconic to give up on?

Here’s our post on this from last week:

On air: Do sceptics deserve to be part of the climate change debate?

Yesterday’s debate on WHYS got many of you emailing, calling and blogging. We invited on the programme Iain Dale, a conservative blogger here in the UK, who is not a climate change denier but does question global warming.

What’s your sporting moment of 2009?

Think back over the past twelve months, what sporting moment grabbed you? It doesn’t matter what sport it is or how big the sporting event was, we just want to know about the “wow” factor. Tell us about the drama, excitement or surprise.

On air: Iran protests

Iranian police have clashed with opposition supporters in the latest sign that the fall-out from the election continues. We’ll do our best to speak to all sides to find out what they’ve seen, and what they want. (Though I’ll admit that finding an English-speaking Iranian policeman who’s prepared to speak to us may be beyond even our producers.) If you have any questions as well as comments, please post them here.

Copenhagen: Is this the most important summit?

“Never in 17 years of climate negotiations have so many different countries made so many pledges,” – words of UN climate negotiator Yvo de Boer. 192 countries are attending, and some scientists say it’s the most important summit to take place.