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Privacy Shield (exe)

Privacy Shield erases data by using government-level removal techniques. It completely "cleans" your computer of any Internet/Windows habits you want to guarantee won't get discovered. Privacy Shield covers your tracks for you, in seconds it will clear your browser history, browser cache, system cookies, visited and typed URL list, locked...

Tags: History, Toolbar, Web Browser, Privacy-Shield, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Digital Music, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-12-18

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Google trying to take privacy seriously

This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Social Security, Security, Government, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-05

EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)

EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube and its usersViacom's Data DragnetIt seems to me that their is no justification for allowing this data dragnet.Whether dynamic or static, IP addresses can be traced back to many of the original users through data from Internet service providers. The Whitter article cited...

Tags: Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., IP address

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...

Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?

Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?.....“[B]Had this not happened, Viacom would have made a huge amount of profit, but have now obviously lost out.[/B]”Subjective speculation that is unsubstantiated.“[B]YouTube could get shut down, Google could get fined to the nth degree, or maybe Google will get sued and it have...

Tags: Pandora, YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...

Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?

I've been reading the headlines today, and the main headlines on most of the top technology websites are about the YouTube/Google/Viacom saga. I'd like to call this: Youglecomgate, a potentially volatile situation hovers over the midst of everyone who has been on YouTube ever, so that's probably the majority of...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Internet, Networking, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user data

A federal judge ordered PDF Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user data to Viacom, finding that the list of "login IDs" does not qualify as personally identifying information. In opposing Viacom's request for the information, Google had asserted users' privacy rights: "Plaintiffs would...

Tags: Google Inc., Personally Identifiable Information, YouTube Inc., IP, IP Address, User Data, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-03

12 terabytes of YouTube data

12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?

I'm not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you'll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven, is insidious for at least three reasons: inaccuracies proliferate, privacy is frequently...

Tags: Reunion.com LLC., Security, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-07-02

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)Fast Forward, NYC... where the story of the great PIT continues. It just amazes and saddens me how far the US has fallen.When the rest of the world reads about the insurance lawsuits related to the original WTC, the fear of replacing the building with one...

Tags: skyscraper

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Could some uses of OpenID create a large privacy issue?

Could some uses of OpenID create a large privacy issue?I don't think so. Every OpenID is also a URL that means the use of OpenID naturally requires the services of VeriSign’s DNS.Just because DNS is used to resolve a part of the URL (the openid.org part for example) doesn't mean...

Tags: Domain names, OpenID

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Could some uses of OpenID create a large privacy issue?

I just finished a news story about VeriSign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) secure OpenID services chosen by Microsoft for HealthVault users. The story discusses VeriSign's DNS services and its OpenID services and asks if this is a problem or a feature. Is this a possible privacy issue or could the two technologies...

Tags: DNS, VeriSign Inc., Privacy, Domain Name, OpenID, Domain Names, Security, Networking, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-30

What should your email archiving policy look like?

We're finally rolling out email archiving this summer for all users to comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure related to ediscovery processes. A bit behind the times, but who isn't on this one? We all acknowledge that it has to happen and the unions can't even...

Tags: Archiving, E-mail Archiving, Teacher, E-mail, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008Stats prove itFrom http://www.jmu.edu/safetyplan/vehicle/generaldriver/safetybelt.shtml* Approximately 35,000 people die in motor vehicle crashes each year. About 50 percent (17,000) of these people could be saved if they wore their safety belts.* For every one percent increase in safety belt...

Tags: Cellular phones, belt, seat belt, phone, CD

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Online Rule

Online RuleWhoever has the last word winsSomebody says that your posted file is their idea and then what.Drop the forum before they ruin your DVD writer but leave your file there as proof.RE: Online RuleAlways have at least two completely separate email accounts: one for the office and one for...

Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, Online Rule

Discussion threads 2008-06-30