New publishing precedent
I don’t think it is the end of Youtube, but it is certainly a bit of a scare. An Italian court made the precedent setting decision to hold three Google executives responsible for invasion of privacy because of video hosted on the popular site. Up until now, web hosts have been exempt from privacy and […]
Thieves follow Twitter too
If you’re leaving your home for the weekend and are thinking about tweeting it you might want to reconsider that it is not only your friends who are savvy on your unprotected castle. There is a website out there, PleaseRobMe.com, that greets visitors with the following: “listing all those empty homes out there.” [linebreak] It […]
Five year-olds given Internet training
I wanted to write about another Google row, (this time between the search engine and Iran), but as I surfed the BBC’s technology website I encountered the following headline: “Online safety push for five-year-olds.” Sure there were other stories about government surveillance, web hacking, hi-tech gadgets, and third world countries laying broadband track – but […]
Startpage – the new privacy engine pits speed versus need
Web users looking for greater privacy in their web browsing have a new search engine to choose from, Startpage. Operating as an Internet middleman, the engine keeps no records of searchers and filters queries through its own scrambler, so-to-speak, before passing the information to the anonymous user. The media frenzy surrounding China’s state surveillance of […]
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