cnet news, Elinor Mills, April 2, 2009 Microsoft is working with Facebook to keep the persistent Koobface virus off the popular social-networking site, the companies said on Thursday. "In working with Facebook, we were able to add detection of Koobface to our Malicious Software Removal Tool...
Telegraph, April 3, 2009 With their plethora of modern applications, the latest models disclose the user's location with a few yards, their internet shopping habits, friends and interests. While phone providers are not supposed to pass on such data without permission, many people give consent for...
Information Week (Dark Reading), By Kelly Jackson Higgins, April 2, 2009 Another reason to be careful what you post on Facebook: All it takes is a simple Google search, and phishers and marketers can glean a treasure trove of private information based on relationships among Facebook...
Information Week, By Tim Wilson, March 31, 2009 The European Commission is launching an investigation into the way some Internet companies monitor users' behaviors, with an eye on potentially regulating such practices in Europe, a spokeswoman said yesterday. According to news reports, the EC is collecting...
Wall Street Journal, By Amy Schatz, March 31, 2009 Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the newly resurrected Senate Communications, Technology and the Internet subcommittee, planned to tell cable executives tonight that his panel will be busy this year developing a comprehensive broadband strategy and monitoring how...
Washington Post, By Michael Arrington, March 31, 2009 Facebook will soon have its third chief financial officer in less than two years, the company announced today via a leak to the Wall Street Journal. Gideon Yu, the man who came back from Dubai empty handed, is...
Fox Business, March 31, 2009 GoTV Networks, Inc., the industry's largest mobile media network, today announced the launch of LiveFromYou, a new personal media application for mobile phones and social networks. LiveFromYou is a mobile and web product that enables users to share the stories of...
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 31 MAR - Alcune società che operano su internet stanno abusando dei dati personali dei consumatori Ue e la Commissione Ue non vuole più stare a guardare, ma potrebbe presto intervenire per mettere ordine in quello che considera il ‘World Wilde West’. Leggi...
Il Velino - 1 aprile 2009 - Luca Bolognini, presidente dell’Istituto Italiano per la Privacy, commenta con estremo favore le dichiarazioni della Commissaria UE Meglena Kuneva sul delicato tema delle profilazioni di consumatori on line: “La posizione severa assunta questa settimana dalla Commissaria, a proposito...
Meglena Kuneva European Consumer Commissioner Keynote Speech SPEECH/09/156 Roundtable on Online Data Collection, Targeting and Profiling Brussels, 31 March 2009 I would like to thank all of you for accepting our invitation to be here today. We are here to talk about one of the most important and most controversial issues...