PC World, By Jeremy Kirk, December 9, 2008 Microsoft will anonymize and discard data collected from search queries much sooner than it does now if its rivals do the same, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft has endorsed European guidelines that suggest search engines should not keep...
New York Times, By JIM DWYER, December 10, 2008 Google has released its map of the national brain and appetites for 2008, and it turns out that many, many people across America have been asking the Internet “what is love?” and “how to kiss.” And to...
The Spectator, Hamilton College, NY, By David Riord an, December 10, 2008 Technologies only become interesting once they've already become ubiquitous. That's why Facebook made sense when Mark Zuckerberg & Co. launched it at Harvard: constrained to the community of Harvard undergraduates, it became significantly easier...
PC World, By Grant Gros s, December 9, 2008 U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has a lot of work to do on technology issues when he takes office, with changes needed to protect consumer privacy online and to limit government surveillance powers, a privacy and civil liberties...
La sfida è la pubblicità. Indubbiamente i servizi di social network sono potenzialmente un campo d’azione ricco per il marketing e la pubblicità. Ma ancora, Facebook ne è la prova, non si è riusciti ad individuare un modello in grado di garantire ricavi proporzionati al...
Il Garante per la protezione dei dati personali raccomanda di prendere tutte le precauzioni per evitare che, al momento di dismettere apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche (anzitutto pc, ma anche cd rom o dvd), rimangano in memoria nomi, Leggi tutto...
Il motore di ricerca di Microsoft riduce di tre mesi il periodo di Data retention, venendo incontro alle richieste Ue Leggi tutto...
SC Magazine, December 8, 2008 Facebook and Google have both launched new user-ID services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites. Google's Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking...
PC Advisor, By Paul Meller, December 8, 2008 Experts from search Engine Google and chipmaker Intel have been drafted in by the European Commission to help revise European Union laws on data protection. According to European Commission spokesman Michele Cercone, Peter Fleischer from Google's global privacy...
Ars Technica, By John Timmer, December 7, 2008 The EU is looking into whether its privacy regulations need to be updated to bring them into line with the realities of the modern Internet. The group responsible for this update, the catchily-named Article 29 Data Protection Working...