Google Privacy Death Star

The unofficial motto for Google is “Don’t be evil”. It’s written on its Code of Conduct page as part of its investor relations information. Google has 7 simple areas in this code of conduct that cover serving its users, respecting employees, avoiding conflicts of interest, preserving confidentiality, protecting Google’s assets, ensuring financial integrity and obeying the law. If you read them, it sounds like the company intends not to be evil. Google’s privacy policies and...

The unofficial motto for Google is “Don’t be evil”. It’s written on its Code of Conduct page as part of its investor relations information. ...

Two pieces of legislation before the United States Congress are intended, according to its supporters, to prevent Internet piracy and protect freedom and American jobs. The Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are legislative responses to these threats. Unfortunately, rather than protecting intellectual property and jobs, they would in fact impose bad regulations on American businesses and censor the Internet as we know it. The stated goal of these...

Two pieces of legislation before the United States Congress are intended, according to its supporters, to prevent Internet piracy and protect freedom and American...

Here is a great video explaining why SOPA and PIPA may harm the open and free Internet and why it will ultimate hurt business. It also won’t stop those people actually stealing intellectual property and your valuable content....

Here is a great video explaining why SOPA and PIPA may harm the open and free Internet and why it will ultimate hurt business. ...

According to an announcement on January 11, 2012, after more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has initiated a process that could trigger a dramatic expansion of the Internet. Starting on January 12, 2012, ICANN will accept applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This might sound like a great idea, but it could also be fraught with trouble. ICANN is the organization that manages and...

According to an announcement on January 11, 2012, after more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

The amount of personal information compromised through data breaches was on the rise in 2011. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, about 30 million records were compromised in 2011 in 535 separate breaches in the United States. That’s up from 12.3 million in 2010. The numbers are much larger when viewed globally. Most people assume that hackers using sophisticated techniques are to blame for all the data breaches. In most cases it’s the simple...

The amount of personal information compromised through data breaches was on the rise in 2011. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, about 30 million...

Todays headlines point to hackers and other criminals as the major causes of data breaches, but in fact a lot of the trouble starts with trusted employees. And one of the most trusted in your life is your doctor. Recent reports by Manhattan Research have found that 81% of physicians use a smartphone, up from 72% in 2010. 30% of doctors use iPads to access electronic health records and communicate with patients. Unfortunately according...

Todays headlines point to hackers and other criminals as the major causes of data breaches, but in fact a lot of the trouble starts...

According to IDC, 80% of new commercial enterprise applications will be deployed on cloud platforms in 2012. Add to that the expectation that intelligent mobile devices will exceed “traditional computing” devices by almost 2 to 1 within the next 24 months and you have a very different world from just a few years ago. Cloud computing is very hot and every major software, hardware and technology services company is trying to get into it. ...

According to IDC, 80% of new commercial enterprise applications will be deployed on cloud platforms in 2012. Add to that the expectation that intelligent...

People are worried that their wireless carriers are monitoring all the activity on smart phones to spy on them and do who knows what. For years everyone thought this was just a conspiracy theory, but now a security researcher has thrown a little bit of reality onto the fire. In mid-November, security researcher Trevor Eckhart published a report accusing Carrier IQ of installing malware on more than 140 million mobile phones worldwide. This software...

People are worried that their wireless carriers are monitoring all the activity on smart phones to spy on them and do who knows what. ...

Hopefully you ate all of your Thanksgiving holiday food and are ready to start your holiday shopping with a bang. Based on reports I read over the weekend, Black Friday was a great success for the brick and mortar stores in the US. A lot of people started their shopping at midnight last Friday or got up to get in line for bargains at 4:00am. As for me, I slept in on Friday morning...

Hopefully you ate all of your Thanksgiving holiday food and are ready to start your holiday shopping with a bang. Based on reports I...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and I was reflecting on some of the things I’m thankful for when doing business everyday. Of course I’m thankful for the great people I work with, my family for putting up with me and for all the customers that I can help. But I’m also thankful all the technology I use. Sometimes using technology can be a real headache, especially when something doesn’t work and...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and I was reflecting on some of the things I’m thankful for when doing business everyday. ...

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