News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 pm
The smartphone app has become popular with young people for sending messages that a few seconds later disappear. That clever disappearing act has made the Los Angeles start-up a hit with users and some prominent investors in Silicon Valley.
But it turns out that photos sent over Snapchat have a longer shelf life than people think. They don’t vanish — at least not entirely — and can be retrieved in some cases.
PHOTOS: The top smartphones of 2013
The Electronic Privacy Information Center on Friday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
“Snapchat is the app that promises to …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 pm
In a continuing effort to address concerns that reporters at Bloomberg L.P.’s news division looked at terminal subscribers’ data, the company on Friday appointed Samuel J. Palmisano, the former chairman and chief executive of I.B.M., to review its privacy and data standards.
Mr. Palmisano, who joined I.B.M. in 1973 and served as chief executive until 2011, will report to Bloomberg’s board and will initiate a review of the company’s handling of its vast troves of subscriber data and how that data is used internally. He sits on the board of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the cheritable group of Michael R. Bloomberg, who …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 pm
One of the most valuable allies in the fight against SOPA last year was Google. The search giant gave millions of Internet users the tools necessary to contact their representatives to voice their opposition to the bill. Now Google is back giving tips on how developers and users can influence tech policy.
During Google I/O 2013, Derek Slater, Jen Pahlka and others hosted a session titled “Beyond SOPA: What You Can Do To Influence Tech Policy:”
From SOPA/PIPA and CISPA, to immigration and patent reform, government is taking a renewed interest in the Internet and the businesses
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 5:47 pm
Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week.
The Dutch ING Bank doesn’t have to reveal who has access to a bank account, the number for which is posted on the website FTD World, the Amsterdam district court ruled.
FTD World, at ftdworld.net, is a Usenet-indexing website that lists links to binary files posted on Usenet. It also provides files in the NZB format listing that allows users to download the posted files more easily. By doing this, the site provides access to copyrighted …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 5:46 pm
BLOOMBERG APPOINTS SAMUEL PALMISANO AS INDEPENDENT ADVISER
Palmisano will review privacy and data protocols and policies and make recommendations on possible enhancements
Bloomberg also appoints Clark Hoyt to review Bloomberg News’ relationship with the Company’s commercial operations
New York, May 17, 2013 – Bloomberg LP announced today the appointment of Samuel J. Palmisano, the former Chairman and CEO of IBM, to serve as an independent adviser regarding the Company’s privacy and data standards.
Mr. Palmisano will immediately undertake a review of the Company’s current practices and policies for client data and end user information, including a review of access issues
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 5:46 pm
The beat writers — the ones who follow the Caps most closely, home and road — talked to him after the main interview was over, basically saying, “Hey, if we got it wrong, we want to know; what was wrong?”
Laich would not say. The sources again confirmed the story. And the great mystery continued.
The exchanges left me wondering how much of this is our business — “our” meaning the media and the fans. The job of a beat writer is to ask questions and report the nature of an injury, when possible. The job of the NHL, in …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 5:46 pm
While some members of Congress might have been excited to try on Google’s Glass this week, others are concerned about their privacy implications.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and seven other members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus have sent a letter to Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page requesting answers to a series of privacy questions and concerns raised by the camera-equipped glasses.
“As members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, we are curious whether this new technology could infringe on the privacy of average Americans,” the letter reads. “Because Google Glass has not yet been released and we …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 am
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(Photo: David Paul Morris Getty Images)
Do you know every Google search you’ve ever performed is stored on the search giant’s servers? And that data is cross-linked to your search data from YouTube, Google Maps and any other Google services you use.
With that mountain of information, Google can tell a lot about you: where you live, your hobbies, age, health problems, religion and more.
Of course, Google uses that data mostly to target you with ads. If you spend 20 minutes doing research on a gadget, for the next few weeks you’ll probably …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 am
When Kevin Poulsen, a former hacker who now edits at Wired magazine, came up with the idea two years ago of creating an open-source drop box for leaked documents along the lines of WikiLeaks, he could not have imagined that its launch would coincide with one of the most aggressive US government assaults on press freedom in a generation.
Deaddrop unveiled itself to the world on Thursday, three days afterAssociated Press revealed that it had been subjected to a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into its news gathering by the Justice Department. Leak investigators had obtained phone records of …
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News via Google / May 17, 2013 11:46 am
Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week.
The Dutch ING Bank doesn’t have to reveal who has access to a bank account, the number for which is posted on the website FTD World, the Amsterdam district court ruled.
FTD World, at ftdworld.net, is a Usenet-indexing website that lists links to binary files posted on Usenet. It also provides files in the NZB format listing that allows users to download the posted files more easily. By doing this, the site provides access to copyrighted …
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