Posts Tagged ‘security’

Via the Calgary Sun
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy watchdog says Internet phenomenon Facebook breaches the law by keeping users’ personal information indefinitely — even after members close their accounts.
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the popular social networking site should hang on to the data only for as long as truly necessary.
In a report Thursday, Stoddart urged [...]

Via the Globe and Mail

Martha Irvine
CHICAGO — Associated Press Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2009 02:58AM EDT

Ryan Tracy thought he’d entered the Dark Ages when he graduated from university and arrived in the working world.
His employer blocked access to Facebook, Gmail and other popular Internet sites. He had no wireless access for his [...]

Via Cnet news
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
From a MySpace-related suicide to hate speech on YouTube, the world of user-generated content has been plagued by plain, old nastiness since its early days.
That’s why, as part of the Family Online Safety Institute conference in Washington, D.C., YouTube parent company Google has unveiled an “Abuse and Safety” resource [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 11, 2008 - 05:10AM CT

The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a transition agenda for the incoming Obama administration Tuesday, outlining measures president-elect Barack Obama should take—both via immediate executive orders and longer term legislative reform—to restore privacy safeguards that have been eroded over the past eight [...]

Via the New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: December 8, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — License plates may be coming to cyberspace.
A government and technology industry panel on cyber-security is recommending that the federal government end its reliance on passwords and enforce what the industry describes as “strong authentication.”
Such an approach would probably mean that all government computer [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 04, 2008 - 09:35PM CT
Now that the official Amazon Mobile iPhone app is here, it’s easier than every to check prices from anywhere, even while shopping in retail stores. And the company’s clever new “Amazon Remembers” service will use humans to identify product pics snapped with the [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Guest Author on December 2, 2008
This guest post is written by Matt Rutherford, Web Strategist and technology producer for Charlie Rose. Matt focuses on the macro themes affecting the internet and the wider world. You can read Matt’s previous guest post, Larry Lessig Defends Copyright, Loves Charlie Rose Remixes, here.
Who [...]

Via the New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: November 29, 2008 HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every move, he receives a free smartphone.
Now, when he dials another student, researchers know. When [...]

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: November 27, 2008
Is lying about one’s identity on the Internet now a crime?The verdict Wednesday in the MySpace cyberbullying case raised a variety of questions about the terms that users agree to when they log on to Web sites.
The defendant in the case, a Missouri woman, was convicted [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 21, 2008
A new site called TweetStalk is in private beta. It allows you to “follow” Twitter users without them knowing you are doing it (Twitter tells you when someone new has subscribed to your data). It’s all through a Firefox Add-On and appears to modify the [...]