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it's Friday April fifteenth I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded new legislation in Europe will let users turn off their cookies in browsers if they don't want their web activity to be tracked the European Union has been working to require the web advertising industry to get permission before they start tracking people now the Internet Advertising Bureau Europe has new rules that will require this here in the US the Do Not Track feature in browsers is not yet required but Apple may be adding it to Safari anyway the wall street journal reports that lion the next version of apple's OS 10 will have Do Not Track options in the web browser this means you can opt not to have your web habits tracked and the data could not be sold or used by ad networks this hard drive will self-destruct in five seconds imagine a hard drive that can really do that toshiba announced hard drives that can they are self encrypting drives that detect if the drive has fallen into the wrong hands if it's plugged into an unknown computer it will securely wipe out all of its data or simply deny access to the offending sneak the drives are due out later this year gmail has just added the ability to set your own background image in your email page this is kind of fun you can do this in the themes tab on the settings page you can now control your netflix queue with microsoft kinect this update to the motion controlled xbox 360 came out on thursday this means you can wave your way through your movie queue and select play pause and stop the entertainment all by the wave of a hand or a voice command just don't yell out stop during a chase scene or you might stop your movie you can soon buy a new color in staple stores the barnes and noble ereader was previously only for sale online or in barnes & noble stores staples will start carrying it on may first for $249 but you will miss out on the in store only specials like free ebooks or discounted coffee you'll have to take that nook to the bookstore later for those and EA Sports announced a launch date for madden NFL 12 the football video game will launch on august 30th whether the NFL season kicks off or not no player has been chosen for the cover yet ESPN is still holding of so head on over to espn.com to select your pick that's your news of the day and of the week i will see you on Monday I'm Natali Morris with cnet and you just bloated