Google execs to give closed-door briefing, CEO stays home
January 31, 2012
Google CEO Larry Page won’t be testifying before Congress this week. In response to an invitation last week from Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., who asked Page to appear and explain the company’s user policy changes, Page sent two subordinates to handle the matter.
Google deputy general counsel Mike Yang and public policy director Pablo Chavez are preparing to deliver a closed-door briefing on Thursday, says …More
Will Larry Page show up to testify before Congress?
January 30, 2012
Google CEO Larry Page on Friday evening received a strongly-worded letter from Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., challenging the privacy policy changes the search giant announced last week.
Starting March 1, Google will be capable, policy-wise, of cross-referencing Internet user activity data compiled from its most popular services, including search, Google Apps, Gmail and YouTube.
And it will be able, policy-wise, to do this …More
Google, Facebook say privacy rules bad for economy
January 27, 2012
They may be battling each other tooth-and-nail to win over online advertisers. But Google and Facebook are on the same side when it comes to opposing new data-handling privacy laws fast-gelling in Europe and the U.S.
On Wednesday, the European Union formally proposed strict rules that could restrict much of the systematic tracking and profiling Google and Facebook routinely do of Internet users, as part …More
Risks rise as Google, Facebook intensify profiling
January 26, 2012
Google and Facebook might have finally gotten the average consumer riled up about privacy.
For the past two years, each company has experimented with different ways to divine more and more about how people live their lives on the Internet, without sparking a revolt.
But the plans the rivals announced on Tuesday, which critics say could dramatically rev up their respective abilities to gather intelligence on individual Internet …More
Chilling effect of MegaUpload raid takes hold
January 24, 2012
By Byron Acohido and Scott Martin, USA TODAY
Caution is spreading among popular file-sharing services known for letting users circulate pirated Hollywood content.
FileSonic, FileServe and Uploaded.to have abruptly cut off the sharing of movies, games and other software just days after the Justice Department closed down Megaupload, the largest such site.
“It looks like the chilling effect has already started,” says Dennis Fisher, editor in chief of security blog …More
Hollywood’s takedown of Megaupload stokes SOPA anti-piracy fears
January 20, 2012
The government takedown of Megaupload, a popular file-sharing site, has stoked simmering fears that hard-line enforcement of copyright infringements could profoundly disrupt Internet commerce.
File sharing has become a major way corporations collaborate with employees and partners and interact with customers. It fuels the sharing of rich content across Internet-connected devices in the home and office and distributed to mobile devices and has emerged as a major component …More
Zappos hack shows risk of using e-mail as your account username
January 16, 2012
If you’ve ever shopped at Zappos now would be a good time to take stock of the e-mail address and password you use most often to shop and bank online.
The popular online shoe retailer, a division of Amazon, disclosed on Sunday that hackers cracked its customer database to steal records for some 24 million customers.
The data thieves did not get any payment card numbers, because that data was …More
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