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- Google vs. Google on privacy, or not
- Google is shrugging off the $1 billion "massive copyright infringement" Viacom lawsuit against YouTube.Will Google be as cavalier if the threatened antitrust and Federal Trade Commission FTC legal initiatives against the announced DoubleClick acquisition proceed as well?Google will operate with virtually no legal obligation to ensure the privacy, security and...
- Tags: Privacy, Microsoft, Legal, Government, Google, DoubleClick
- Blog posts 2007-04-22
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- How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
- Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...
- Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- EPIC seeks to intervene in Books settlement, says privacy policies are no solution
- What qualifies EPIC to "represent the public's interests"?[i]"the Electronic Privacy Information Center ... is actually seeking to intervene in the case since, it says, none of the parties are representing the public?s interests"[/i]Who the hell is EPIC? In order to be able "to represent the public's interest" the organization has...
- Tags: Litigation, EPIC, Fred, Joe
- Discussion threads 2009-09-05
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- EPIC claim on Google Docs rings hollow
- In the aftermath of a security boo-boo, in which a "a very small percentage" of Google Docs users had their documents exposed to the worldunintended collaborators, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has officially asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google engages in deceptive business practices. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, EPIC, Internet, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Privacy group to FTC: Google's cloud is unsafe
- Privacy group to FTC: Google's cloud is unsafeIt's still a long long way......before cloud computing will become the norm. Issues like this illustrate one reason why. It can be hard enough to get a closed network totally secure enough to completely trust it. To get any big...
- Tags: Government, SECURITY, Cayble, Google Inc., FTC
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Privacy group to FTC: Google's cloud is unsafe
- A Washington-based privacy group wants the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation of the cloud-computing services offered by Google - including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and others - to ensure that they are as secure as Google promises they will be. Specifically, the matters stems...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, FTC, Cloud Computing, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- EPIC ready to sue Facebook over terms
- EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, is about to sue Facebook over its bizarrely expansive license agreement, PC World reports "We think that Facebook should go back to its original terms of service," says EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg. Facebook subtly but powerfully changed...
- Tags: Facebook, EPIC, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Clinical Data Warehouse Project Aims to Improve Neurotrauma Care and Research
- Leaders of the University of California, San Francisco's UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center BASIC say that situation is tragic - and they've undertaken a two-year project with the University of California, Berkeley UCB, and the Intel Digital Health Group to start changing it. Efforts to integrate healthcare data sources...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Standards, Intel Corp., Quality, E-health, Mainframes, Healthcare, Business Operations, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?
- Did you know that there are more than 40 so-called Fusion Centers across the U.S.? A Fusion Center is a top-secret site where federal and state officials meet to share, analyze and redistribute information on "all hazards, all threats," as Ars Technica explains. Here's a map of...
- Tags: Ars Technica, EPIC, Law, Fusion Center, Government, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- U.S. ranks near the bottom in 2007 International Privacy Ranking
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International just published its 1,000-page "Privacy and Human Rights Report," which assesses the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 70 countries. Following are the key findings from the report. Needless to say, privacy is eroding in most parts of...
- Tags: Russia, Privacy, Privacy Protection, Security, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- In Google-DoubleClick merger, FTC chief won't recuse herself
- In a statement today, FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majores said she wouldn't recuse herself from taking part in consideration of the Google-DoubleClick merger. The privacy groups Electronic Privacy Information Center and Center for Digital Democracy had filed a formal request that she do so, based on...
- Tags: Jones Day, Google Inc., Merger, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Why don't kids use email?
- Why don't kids use email?An Interesting PerspectiveI was working at AT&T Wireless when they started really pushing text-messaging for our customers, and at the time I didn't get it: I never thought it would catch on. Typing a text-message into your cellphone instead of just placing a call is like...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, e-mail, e-mail application, cell phone, computer, text messaging
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Do-not-track list: Has a Web cookie ever interrupted your dinner?
- Privacy advocacy groups are expected to propose a Do-Not-Track list that would do look to thwart the use of Web cookies--and behavioral ad targeting. Ad Age reports Techmeme: Privacy advocates are expected to propose the creation of a do-not-track list, a sort of internet...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cookie, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Fred Trotter's HealthVault expose
- Fred Trotter, a blogger at the intersection of medicine and open source, is in the midst of producing a series of articles about Microsoft HealthVault. They don't paint a pretty picture. Trotter alleges that Microsoft fails the "seven generations test," that it has a...
- Tags: Dr., Microsoft Corp., Trotter, Productivity, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Google proposes international privacy standards
- Google called Friday for new international privacy standards. The company's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said in a U.N. speech that international privacy laws have become too fragmented and that an international body should create a standard that countries could adopt and customize, The Washington Post reports. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Standards, European Union, Privacy Standard, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Did Apple paranoia scare off Morgan report about Nano iPhone?
- This could be one of my sideways-thinking hunches, but follow along with me here.First, the blogosphere pantingly follows along with a Reuters story tying to a JP Morgan report by Taiwan-based analyst Kevin Chang. Taiwan, incidentally, is a center for mobile device chip making, so analysts there might be presumed...
- Tags: Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- What's your score? FBI STAR program uses to data to evaluate terrorism risk
- Would you trust a computer to identify potential terrorists? The FBI is working on a computer-profiling system that would do just that and not everyone is happy about it, reports the Washington Post.The System to Assess Risk, or STAR, set to be tested next year, will function in much the...
- Tags: Homeland security, Justice, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- "Creating a permanent record of things that we do casually"
- Current.tv has a good "pod" (if not a good branding department; really, can't we call these things something else?) titled They're Watching, featuring the insights of Mark Rasch, former head of Computer Crime for the U.S. Department of Justice. The subject of the video left at least 56 digital...
- Tags: Privacy, Attention, Anonymity
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
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