NEWS

CNET News, By Chris Soghoian, January 23, 2009   Just 12 hours after this blog highlighted the privacy problems associated with the White House's use of embedded YouTube videos, the Obama team rushed to deploy a technical fix that significantly protects the privacy of many (but not...

CNET News, By Chris Soghoian, January 22, 2009   The new Web site for Obama's White House is already drawing attention from privacy activists and tech bloggers. While the initial focus has been on the site's policies relating to search engine robots, a far more interesting tidbit...

Wall Street Journal, By SIOBHAN GORMAN, January 22, 2009   WASHINGTON -- U.S. spy agencies' sensitive data should soon be linked by Google-like search systems, nearly five years after the intelligence community was rebuked by the 9/11 Commission for failing to "connect the dots" and detect the...

 CBS, FL, January 21, 2009   South Florida's largest cable provider, Comcast, is coming under increased scrutiny from the FCC over allegations the company degraded the sound quality of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) services like Vonage and Skype. Companies like Vonage, Skype and others provide direct...

Product Placement News, NV, By Mike Shields, January 21, 2009   It’s doubtful that—between managing two wars and implementing a massive economic stimulus package—behavioral targeting ranks high on President-elect Obama’s first 100 days’ to-do list. Yet, with a new administration set to take charge this week, backed...

Quelli di Mozilla si sono messi in testa di conoscere meglio i loro utenti. Nasce in quest’ottica Test Pilot, un’idea più che un progetto, con cui la mamma di Firefox & C. vorrebbe raccogliere in maniera sistematica i feedback degli utenti, compresi quelli involontari che...