Large staff reductions planned at Finnish, Mexican and Hungarian plants

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is to cut 4,000 factory jobs in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it shifts the assembly of its smartphones to Asia.

The move, designed to speed up production in the fast-moving smartphone market, will mean the loss of more than half of the 7,100 jobs at the three factories affected. The company has nine manufacturing plants in all.

The redundancies take the total number of planned job cuts at the group to more than 30,000 since Stephen Elop took over as chief executive in September 2010.

"Shifting device assembly to Asia is targeted at improving our time to market," said Niklas Savander, Nokia's executive vice president for markets. "By working more closely with our suppliers, we believe that we will be able to introduce innovations into the market more quickly and ultimately be more competitive."

In Hungary, the Komarom plant will cut 2,300 out of 4,400 jobs. Reynosa in Mexico will be hit proportionally hardest, losing 700 out of 1,000 jobs. At the factory in Salo, Finland, 1,000 out of 1,700 production jobs will disappear.

The work of assembling phones will be handed to Nokia's existing workforces in Masam, South Korea, and the Chinese capital, Beijing. The remaining European and Mexican workers will focus on customising phone software according to language requirements or the specifications of individual mobile networks.

The 3,500-strong design, research and development workforce at Salo is unaffected by the changes.

"We recognise the planned changes are difficult for our employees and we are committed to supporting our personnel and their local communities during the transition," said Savander.

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Women-only social network Luluvise lets its members rate the men they've dated ? but should they be posting personal sensitive data without the men's permission?

Luluvise describes itself as "a social network for women". It's loved by the technology media, racking up plenty of friendly articles since its launch late last year. Its founder, Alexandra Chong, even has a regular column in the Sunday Times about life in a startup.

Luluvise's PR team frequently spotlights one particular feature: WikiDate, in which women on the Luluvise network ? who must sign in using their Facebook account ? can rate the men that they've dated.

Facebook's privacy page has the innocuous statement: "People who can see your info can bring it with them when they use apps." This means that when your friend signs into an application, they don't just share their own data ? they can share some of your data as well.

And if you haven't looked through the deep parts of Facebook's privacy settings, that could be a lot of personal information: by default, it includes your status updates, photos, birthday, family details, and biography. A truly malicious application could happily store all those details ? and while Facebook has policies in place to cut off rogue applications, detecting abuse isn't the easiest of tasks.

Luluvise's site was in violation of Facebook's policies for at least a month. When a Facebook user joins Luluvise, it pulls in the names of the men that they know; if a user decides to rate any of them, it then generates a public-facing page announcing that the man has been reviewed. Originally, that page featured more than just a name: it included the man's photograph, pulled from his Facebook account.

I asked Joelle Hadfield, Luluvise's head of PR, how that complied with Facebook's Platform Policies, which prohibit using users' friends' data for anything public. She said: "We are pleased to work closely with Facebook, and so naturally we are committed to abiding by their Platform Policy."

However, after I contacted Facebook for comment, Luluvise altered its site. At Facebook's request, it's no longer showing the profile photos of the men in its system. However, it is still showing name and location details publicly ? along with a "dating score" for those logged into the site.

It's questionable whether the Data Protection Act allows Luluvise to keep that information. Sensitive personal data ? including details of someone's sex life ? is handled under Schedule 3 of the Data Protection Act, and can only be processed under certain strict conditions or with the subject's explicit consent.

I asked the Information Commissioner's Office if WikiDate violated the act; they were unable to answer immediately, but said they'd get in touch with Luluvise to "better understand how their service works and to ensure compliance with the law".

That process may take several weeks. Even if it does end up with significant changes to this one particular site, the act doesn't apply to any companies outside the UK.

Facebook, however, has confirmed to me that Luluvise is now compliant with its policies. That's startling ? because it means that maintaining a public page, accessible to search engines, announcing that a Facebook user has "WikiDate reviews" on a site that they've never joined and will never be allowed to, is permitted by Facebook.

There are some big issues here I'm not qualified to comment on. WikiDate doesn't care about anyone who's gay, or anyone who doesn't fit strictly into "male" or "female". There's also Luluvise's stereotyping of women ("We know what girls talk about when they discuss their latest crush"), and the fact that switching WikiDate's two genders around would make the site a pariah rather than a media darling. Other writers can talk about those issues with more insight and experience than I ever could.

I can, however, talk about privacy.

Here's the bottom line: if you use Facebook, and your friends sign up for social applications, your name and details could appear in unexpected places. Of course, you could always not have a Facebook account ? that's the catch-all answer frequently trotted out by the site's detractors.

For many people, though, that's not an easy option. When your friends run their social lives through the service, not having a Facebook account is like not having a mobile phone or an email address. Yes, you can live without it, but it's a serious inconvenience that means you're very much out of the loop.

So check your privacy settings, under "Apps and Websites". You may be surprised what data your friends are giving away ? and where it's ending up.

? Tom Scott's website is tomscott.com; he's on Twitter at @tomscott

UK cable company beats forecasts to report net income of £75.9m for 2011

Virgin Media has brought to an end nearly three decades of losses for the British cable TV industry by reporting its first ever annual profit in 2011.

The UK's only remaining cable company, created in 2006 after repeated rounds of consolidation among the country's loss-making regional operators, has reported full-year net income of £75.9m.

This profit is still tiny compared to the group's £3.992bn annual revenue, but this beat forecasts to rise 3% year-on-year. Virgin Media also trumped cashflow forecasts and reported 30,000 net new cable broadband customers in its fourth quarter.

Subscribers to Virgin Media's Tivo digital video recorder more than doubled in the three months to 31 December, with 273,000 net additions ? bringing the total to 435,000, some 12% of its total TV customer base.

"The combination of the best TV experience and the best broadband has enabled us to acquire more new customers in the quarter," said the chief executive, Neil Berkett.

"From an accounting point of view, we've turned a quarter and it will be profit from here on in."

He announced the group would bring forward plans for a further round of share buy-backs, with a £$250m (£157m) repurchase programme to begin immediately.

A further £295m will be spent later in the year, by which time Virgin Media will have acquired 25% of its shares, spending a total of £1.25bn.

Virgin Media was created by the merger of NTL, Telewest and Virgin Mobile in 2006. NTL and Telewest had previously grown out of the consolidation of regional cable companies that had ploughed £13 bn into laying fibre-optic cables that now reach nearly half of Britain's 26m homes.

Demand for high-speed broadband has helped boost Virgin Media's performance, with athletics superstar Usain Bolt drafted in to promote the service and the company aiming to double customer numbers over the next 18 months.

Half of new customers in the final three months of 2011 took superfast broadband of 30 megabits per second or above. Superfast customers were up 133,000 in the quarter, and 579,000 for the year.

Revenues from business customers have increased, by 14% in the quarter to deliver full year revenue of £637m, up nearly 7% for the year. New contracts in the quarter included the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and Volkswagen Group UK.

"Our business division is playing an increasing part," Berkett said. "It will continue to grow faster than the consumer segment for many years."

BT Group has an 80% share of the business telecoms market, and Virgin Media with just 4% is hoping to grow its share at the expense of larger rivals including Cable & Wireless Worldwide.

Berkett downplayed the threat to cable from on-demand internet video services such as Netflix and Apple's widely anticipated launch of an internet-connected television set.

"We want to concentrate on being the customer's agent and we will source our content from a broad array," he said. "Our pay-TV business is not a high margin business for us. We make our money through Tivo or the best superfast broadband. We are set up for an open world."

With Virgin Media no longer chasing subscribers whose homes had to be served via BT's copper network because they cannot be connected to cables, the group lost 23,000 net customers in 2011, with the total subscriber base falling to 4.35 million.

Just 5,500 domestic cable customers were added last year, although the number rose by 15,000 in the fourth quarter.

Virgin Media added 64,100 broadband customers over the 12 months, a slowdown on the year before when the company was still growing its non-cable customer base and 173,300 joined.

Total cable TV subscribers declined by 15,700 across the year, compared with a growth of 84,900 the year before, although pay-TV customers are up 56,000 in the quarter and 137,000 across the year. The group lost 35,400 telephone customers in the year.

At the end of 2011, net debt stood at £5.5bn, with Virgin still paying a £105m a quarter in interest.

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Law firm represented Frank Wuterich, who pled guilty to his part in the death of 24 Iraqi civilians, but served no jail time

Hackers associated with the Anonymous activist group have leaked a trove of emails hacked from the law firm representing staff sergeant Frank Wuterich, accused of leading a group of Marines responsible for the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians at Haditha.

The group has published files taken from Puckett & Faraj, the law firm that represented Wuterich on Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site popular with hackers, and published extracts on another site, Pastebin, although some of those postings now appear to have been removed.

Last month Wuterich plead guilty in a military court to dereliction of duty, telling the judge that he regretted ordering his men to "shoot first, ask questions later."

He was demoted to private and technically sentenced to 90 days confinement but, by the terms of the plea deal, he will not serve any time. The sentence means none of the marines accused in the incident will face time in prison.

In the emails, Neal Puckett, the law firm's founder and a former marine, writes to one of Wuterich's supporters: "Frank Wuterich represents the best this country has to offer and deserved nothing less. I was inspired by his insistence that he take responsibility for all that his Marines did or failed to do that day. He refused to have it any other way."

The website of Puckett & Faraj was unavailable Monday and the firm declined to comment about the alleged security breach.

In other emails released by Anonymous, members of the firm appear to worry that hack may "completely destroy the Law Firm."

The hack was the latest in high profile release by Anonymous members in less than a week. Last week the collective released an 18-minute recording of the FBI and British police discussing delays in court proceedings against two alleged members of the LulzSec hacking group.