New York Times, By MIGUEL HELFT, December 18, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said Wednesday that it would limit to 90 days the time it holds some personally identifiable information related to searches to address growing concerns from privacy advocates, policy makers and government regulators....
Search Engine Journal, By Ann Smarty, December 18, 2008 Many sites are blocked in some countries - if you are located in the USA, you are probably unfamiliar with this problem (unless you are trying to figure out how to access blocked websites when at work,...
Roma - Da tredici mesi a novanta giorni: Yahoo gioca la carta della tutela degli utenti. Conserverà dati in chiaro per il tempo che basta a garantire la fornitura di servizi personalizzati, dopo tre mesi i record finiranno nel calderone dei dati anonimi. Leggi tutto...
Roma - Sono state pubblicate sul sito del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it) le nuove procedure semplificate per l'applicazione delle misure minime di sicurezza ed in tema di notificazione dei trattamenti dati personali al Garante. Vediamo dunque in cosa consistono alcune semplificazioni...
Il tribunale di Canberra (Australia) ha stabilito che l'inidirzzo su Facebook può essere utilizzato per inviare notifiche di carattere giudiziario Il tribunale di Canberra, in Australia, acconsente che le notifiche ufficiali possano essere effettuate dai legali tramite Facebook . Leggi tutto...
Information Week, By Thomas Claburn, December 17, 2008 Since the beginning of the month, both Microsoft and Yahoo have been hitting Google where it hurts: in its privacy policy. Earlier this month, Microsoft offered to retain search data for only six months, if Google and...
Washington Post, By David Kaplan, December 17, 2008 Yahoo, perhaps hoping to get the focus off its finances and CEO search, will reduce the amount of time it holds on to user data to three months from just over a year. After that period, Yahoo will...
New York Times, By SAUL HANSELL, December 17, 2008 The advertising trade group that proposed that people with cancer deserve more privacy protections than those with heart disease has adopted a new version of its guidelines for how ad networks use data about Internet users. It...
Ars Technica, By Nate Anderson, December 17, 2008 Online advertisers have overhauled their voluntary code of conduct for the first time since 2000, but critics say that it's only a small step down a long road. What's still needed, they say, is baseline federal laws on...
CRN, NY, By Chad Berndtson, December 16, 2008 The benefits of health-care IT are by now well-established, especially for digital patient records, a more facile exchange of information and the easier analysis of medical data. But technology's role in both improving care and bringing down...