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Via EFF: “Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It’s very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see …
EPIC: “Judge Denny Chin struck down a proposed settlement between Google and copyright holders that would have imposed significant privacy risks on e-book consumers. Google’s proposal would have entitled the company to collect each users’ search queries as well as the titles and page numbers of the books they read. In a February 2010 hearing …
News release: “In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission discussed its efforts to protect consumer privacy through enforcement actions, consumer education, and policy initiatives like the FTC staffs recent preliminary privacy report. The report proposes a framework to balance consumer privacy with industry innovation by: 1) building …
“Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content. It offers purchase-once, view-anywhere functionality, so users can view the content they buy across all of their devices. By providing a system for user authentication, payment processing, and administration, Google One Pass lets publishers focus …
“The Digital Signage Federation (DSF), a professional membership association, announced today the release of new industry standards for digital signage privacy. The Digital Signage Privacy Standards are a set of voluntary privacy guidelines recommended by DSF for digital signage companies, their partners and the venues that host these systems….The DSF Standards Committee is comprised of …
News release: “The Center for Democracy & Technology today released a proposal that sketches the parameters of what Do Not Track (DNT) means. The document is intended to identify the types of behaviors that DNT should prohibit, and jumpstart a discussion aimed at developing a common understanding of the terms of this emerging technology. The …
National Journal: Google and Mozilla both announced that they will be adding “do-not-track” options to their Internet browsers, allowing users to prevent websites from gathering personal information and selling it to advertisers. Mozilla announced its plan Sunday with Google following suit Monday. According to a company statement, Google’s “Keep My Op-Outs” feature will be available …
Follow up to Critical Undersea Internet Cables Damaged Between Europe and Mideast, this related commentary, Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies, by Franz-Stefan Gady “Hardly any people know that our global digital connectivity rests upon a relatively few fiber optic cables lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. They …
“On January 10, 2011, the EastWest Institute released a report detailing the results of the First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit: Protecting the Digital Economy, and outlining the cybersecurity initiatives next steps as it prepares for the Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in London on June 1-2. At the summit, held from May 3 to 5, 2010 in …
The commercial data privacy issues discussed in the Departments green paper, Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework, provide a clear lens through which to assess current policy. Throughout the history of the Internet as a commercial medium, the Department of Commerce has been a key avenue of government …
65% of internet users have paid for online content, Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, 12/30/2010 “Nearly two-thirds of internet users 65% have paid to download or access some kind of online content from the internet, ranging from music to games to news articles to adult material. …
“Mass collaboration is revolutionizing not only the way we work, but the way we live, learn, create and care for each other. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, authors of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, analyze some of the trends reshaping our world. Today: Journalism in the age of user-generated content and Wikileaks – …
