Google Business Photos – See also the FAQ: “Do you own a business? Apply today for a Google photo shoot of your business. Millions of potential customers visit Google every day to learn about places and businesses. Through scheduled photo shoots, Google is introducing a new way for you to showcase your business to the… Continue Reading
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Four Major Communications Carriers Respond to Questions About Customer Data Collection
The big four phone carriers spill on their location and customer data collection policies: “The recent uproar over location tracking in smartphones has gotten ugly and fingers are bound to be pointed. But in the spirit of transparency, the four major carriers have outlined and detailed their location tracking applications s well as what exactly… Continue Reading
PC World: A trade group raises concerns about the FTC settlement with Google over Buzz
A trade group raises concerns about the FTC settlement with Google over Buzz, by Grant Gross “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s proposed settlement with Google over its bungled launch of the Buzz social-networking service could have disastrous effects on the rest of the e-commerce industry, the head of a trade group said. Privacy groups and… Continue Reading
Introducing the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative
News release: “It’s been almost a year since Mozilla, Opera, Xiph.Org, Matroska, Google and over 40 other partners launched the WebM Project with the goal of developing a world-class, open source media format for the web. The open development model has led to rapid quality improvements in WebM, and the format is now supported in… Continue Reading
Commentary: Welcome to the age of data: Watch your back!
Welcome to the age of data: Watch your back! by Molly Wood “This week’s iPhone location tracking scandal is just the latest glaring spotlight on how much of your personal information is gushing out the door, whether unprotected on your own devices and ripe for the picking, or into corporate and botnet servers worldwide. Personal… Continue Reading
Report on Major Outage Impacting Cloud Computing Services
NYT: “As technical problems interrupted computer services provided by Amazon for a second day on Friday, industry analysts said the troubles would prompt many companies to reconsider relying on remote computers beyond their control…Amazon set up a side business five years ago offering computing resources to businesses from its network of sophisticated data centers. Today,… Continue Reading
Tracking Citizen Whereabouts Using SmartPhone Logs
Declan McCullagh,Chief political correspondent, CNET: How police have obtained iPhone, iPad tracking logs “Law enforcement agencies have known since at least last year that an iPhone or iPad surreptitiously records its owner’s approximate location, and have used that geolocation data to aid criminal investigations. Apple has never publicized the undocumented feature buried deep within the… Continue Reading
Transcript: Buying & Selling EContent'
Interview with Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Recorded at Buying & Selling EContent Conference, For podcast release Tuesday, April 5, 2011 “..the ability to buy digital content online is critically important to a lot of people, a lot of businesses, a lot of artists, photographers, a whole gamut of people.… Continue Reading
German study reports on mobile phone tracking of personal lives
Via EFF: “Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It’s very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see… Continue Reading
EPIC: Courts Rejects Google Books Settlement as Unfair
EPIC: “Judge Denny Chin struck down a proposed settlement between Google and copyright holders that would have imposed significant privacy risks on e-book consumers. Google’s proposal would have entitled the company to collect each users’ search queries as well as the titles and page numbers of the books they read. In a February 2010 hearing… Continue Reading
FTC Testifies Before Senate Commerce Committee on Privacy; Industry Efforts to Implement "Do Not Track" System Already Underway
News release: “In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission discussed its efforts to protect consumer privacy through enforcement actions, consumer education, and policy initiatives like the FTC staffs recent preliminary privacy report. The report proposes a framework to balance consumer privacy with industry innovation by: 1) building… Continue Reading
Google: A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content
“Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content. It offers purchase-once, view-anywhere functionality, so users can view the content they buy across all of their devices. By providing a system for user authentication, payment processing, and administration, Google One Pass lets publishers focus… Continue Reading
