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PrivacyPlace fisks HealthVault

The term fisking, a detailed rebuttal of someone else's statements and assertions, is fairly common to blogging but uncommon in health care. Today The Privacy Place gave a good fisking to Microsoft's HealthVault. The group's problems are these: HealthVault is not...

Tags: Privacy Statement, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., HealthVault, Privacy Place, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-09

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MyMoney 2.0.49 (Mac)

My Money is a high quality personal financial software written from ground up to work with online bank statements. Simply download your transactions from bank web site and they are automatically entered into electronic register. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, My Money helps...

Tags: Bank, Apple Macintosh, Financial, MTH Software, Data File, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland

It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...

Tags: U.S. Military, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

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

News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Smart Turn Off COMputer 3.6.9 (Windows)

Turn your computers off by icon, button, combination keystroke or timer and... protect privacy, cleanup PC, close applications in accordance with chosen policy, kill unknown viruses, backup data, eject CD, launch additional tasks (*.bat, *.exe, *.com) at shutdown and be sure your computers will shut down! CLEANUP FEATURES: all popular...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart Turn Off, Backups

Software downloads 2009-11-06

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

The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?

Droid, iPhone, and Windows 7IMHO Droid will likely carve out its own niche - but won't really replace the iPhone or the Blackberry.And I think they may be underestimating Windows 7 a bit.I don't understand the Android guysDo you seriously think you can sell a phone OS as a feature?...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, VZW, Apple iPhone, Droid, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...

Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Cloud storage vs. flash storage: Security vs. simplicity

disagree on a pointi do like the ease of use that the cloud gives me, also the ability to access it anywhere ie Gmail, but personally I'd rather have a flashdrive (besides Gmail, I avoid the cloud like the plague, but maybe I'm just a security/privacy freak =p)[i]"Flash drives also...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Flash memory, storage, security, USB flash drive, Web site, Google Inc., malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?

disgracefulthis is certainly one of the more irresponsible actions on behalf of a corporation in modern times. Why is it that these media centric .com's .. grouping in Google noting some of their more recent activity seem to lack the controls, privacy and humanitarian fibre that their more traditional bricks...

Tags: Government, Blogging, Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Selkie Photo Recovery 3.6 (Windows)

Photos trapped? No backup? Need to recover photos fast? Get the photo recovery software. Selkie Photo Recovery protects your privacy because it is do-it-yourself, fast recovery for photos on your PC or laptop. Simple, secure, powerful software to recover photographs, pictures, and graphics. Selkie Photo Recovery saves you time and...

Tags: Recovery, Photograph, Computer, Tugboat, Selkie Photo Recovery, Selkie, Selkie Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-07

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

Will Office Web Apps overcome cloud biases?

[i]since GAPE Google Apps for Education is right up there with sliced bread in my book.[/i]Of course it is, all your blogs ever do is profess your undying love for all things Google. We already know how your next blog is going to turn out. You are going to...

Tags: cloud computing, Web application, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Google Inc., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content

Facebook is ranked as one of the 10 most trusted companies when it comes to privacy, according to the findings from a survey by the Ponemon Institute, an information security research company, and TRUSTe, a widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark company. The social networking site - ranked...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full 2.0 update later this fall

Top iPhone appsHa ha, one of the visual search galleries is for iPhone apps, how ironic!BUT, Can We Block The Bing Cookies?One issue that is irritating me with MS is their disregard for me, and for every person who uses MS products. (No, I am not anti MS. However, I...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Bing, cookie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Would you march for Internet privacy?

We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...

Tags: Internet privacy, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

OpenID, meet the U.S. government

The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort. Ten technology players said Wednesday that they will support President Obama's initial pilot programs to make it easier to register and work with government Web sites. OpenID is an identity system for the Web that lets people use...

Tags: Web, Web Site, U.S. Government, OpenID, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...

Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Young man yells at cloud

Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man

Discussion threads 2009-09-03