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Did privacy laws bring down Gmail yesterday?

Did privacy laws bring down Gmail yesterday?knowing googleit's much more likely that they were trying to target their advertising to regions geographically close to you.RE: Did privacy laws bring down Gmail yesterday?No, it was the fact they are using linux on their servers that brought gmail down yesterday.RE: Did privacy...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Gmail yesterday, privacy law, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy laws

Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy lawsThe fundamental challengeis how to draft the law such that the ISPs are required to collect, store, and forward this information to the government while at the same time keeping them from looking at it."Too many front burner issues"I suspect that the...

Tags: privacy law, U.S. Congress, new privacy law, privacy

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Call for new privacy law

Call for new privacy lawI say YES to Stronger Privacy ProtectionsWe are long overdue for a boost in privacy protection for our citizens. Our freedoms and privacy have been eroded severely with a variety of far-too-aggressive, reactionary legislation passed in the last decade. Our current executive branch made a mad...

Tags: privacy law

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says

Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group saysWell its that true bell is in order to ....A excellent lawsuit just hope they will receve it big time and painful .its about time that corporate wrong doing is meet with hard sanctionJust think if you were an...enterprise using...

Tags: VPNs, Network security, packet inspection, Bell Canada, privacy law

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Today's Debate: Privacy laws a precondition for EMR growth?

If Microsoft wants to ensure the success of its HealthVault initiative it should spend less time schmoozing the industry's big players and more time demanding Congress enact stronger privacy laws.  (The image is from the HealthVault home page.) As Lauren Weinstein of PFIR notes on his blog,...

Tags: Blog, Privacy Law, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Secure Flight violated privacy law, report finds

Secure Flight violated privacy law, report findsCombine this with the new "national id" and youhave a melting pot of "crap" just waiting to be visited upon the American public. Won't be long before you start hearing... "We warned you. We told you. You failed to listen, now you either have...

Tags: Secure Flight, privacy law

Discussion threads 2006-12-22

Police blotter: Alleged eDonkey pirate gets trial

Police blotter: Alleged eDonkey pirate gets trialAnother clear caseof illegal activities by the movie studios... They paramount and the criminal company they hired as no right of any on any laws to illegaly snoop on computer. Paramount as no case at all and should be counter sued for illegal pricacy...

Tags: Piracy, privacy, invasion, civil case, privacy law, eDonkey

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

GAO: Security agency broke privacy laws

GAO: Security agency broke privacy lawsGAO: Security agency broke privacy laws - Again!Good to see that someone is watching out for the people - since 9/11, the governemt has gone way over the needful and necessary intrusions into our privacy. It remains to be seen just how much effect...

Tags: Security Agency, privacy law, General Accounting Office, security

Discussion threads 2005-07-26

California privacy law kicks in

California privacy law kicks inSo just how arethe Californian lawyers going to enforce a United States (state level at that!) law on other sovereign nations?Again the arrogance of the American law makers is displayed.Well....like many new laws that come from Cali.... it will be a pick n choose... Arrogance?...

Tags: privacy law, arrogance, American Citizen

Discussion threads 2004-07-06

California legislator moves to block Gmail

California legislator moves to block GmailNo thanks, Liz"We think it's an absolute invasion of privacy. It's like having a massive billboard in the middle of your home," said Sen. Liz Figueroa, a Democrat from Fremont, Calif."If I buy a house, pay the taxes,and maintain it, then let you live in...

Tags: E-mail providers, SECURITY, privacy, privacy law, e-mail, billboard, Google Gmail, advertisement, invasion, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-04-13

Additional Resources

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings

As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RIAA, movie, music, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Hidden Administrator 2.9 build 615 (Windows)

Remember the last time when you spent about 30 minutes on the phone trying to explain your mother-in-law how to set an Internet connection when she bought that new laptop? The problem was solved, but there are many more waiting for you in the future, as your mother-in-law will never...

Tags: Remote System, Administrator, Mother-in-law, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-11-11

U.K. minister wants enhanced monitoring of Internet usage

Novo OrdoWelcome to the BRAVE NEW WORLD. This is one in which freedom of independent thought, space, direction, action no longer exist. There will be no more class system just those who are more free of this tyranny and the rest which cannot escape it. Political class, environmentalist, fundamentalists, medicals...

Tags: Internet usage, Novo, class system, monitoring, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Tor 0.2.1.20 (Mac)

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Network, Relay, Tor, Internet, Networking, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-01

BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?

Ownership? Right, until the cr*p hits the fan...I've been there. Everyone is completely on board until a risk becomes a law suit then suddenly all I see of the "Owners" are buttholes and elbows as they scramble for cover. Immediately afterwards the finger pointing begins with most...

Tags: SocMed, instructor

Discussion threads 2009-09-30