Regular Internet users know how difficult it can be to manage all of the different user names and passwords required by the many Web sites they frequently visit. Wouldn't it be better if there were a simple and secure way to log on to all...
The US bailout of Wall Street marks the end of the deregulation era – and it isn't just the money business that's about to see a lot more oversight and other forms of government engagement. In energy, transportation, health care food and, yes, technology and...
Google has an office in Washington D.C., and now it is opening another one just a stone's throw away in Reston, Virginia. Why? So the company can try to sell "cloud computing" to government agencies, according to the Washington Post. Leggi tutto...
A group of House Democrats from California hopes the Department of Justice goes easy on Google and Yahoo. Eleven California Democrats, many of whom represent regions around the Silicon Valleyarea, sent a letter late last week to U.S. Leggi tutto...
European Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding won glowing praise for her vision of the Internet 3.0 Monday from Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the Web and now Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist. Leggi tutto...
I problemi di privacy e sicurezza per la tecnologia di identificazione a radiofrequenza (Rfid) non sono prevedibili, esattamente come non lo sono le future applicazioni. Questa sembra la conclusione di un workshop, organizzato dalla Federal Trade Commission (Ftc) statunitense, cui hanno partecipato rappresentanti delle industrie,...
Il Garante della Privacy ha introdotto nuove riduzione e semplificazioni della burocrazia per piccole e medie imprese, liberi professionisti e artigiani. L’intervento del Garante si concentra essenzialmente su due aspetti fondamentali della normativa, ovvero la corretta ‘informativa’ e il ‘consenso’. Leggi tutto...
The FTC has been investigating behavioral targeting techniques for 20 months in response to a complaint filed by privacy advocates, Congress and the Senate have recently held hearings about online advertising, and three separate states mulled legislation regulating the industry this year. Leggi tutto...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A consumer advocacy group added Thursday to a mounting wave of skepticism about Yahoo Inc.'s proposed search advertising tie-up with Google Inc., calling on the chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee to ask the U.S. Justice Department to either oppose "or ensure...
Broadband service providers are perfectly capable of setting up appropriate safeguards for users who may be targeted by behavioral ad platforms, said ISPs' executives this morning. It's the content providers we should be worried about. Leggi tutto...