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Agence France PresseBy Daniel SilvaFriday, November 6, 2009 MADRID (AFP) - The new “smart meters” utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said Friday.The devices send data on household e (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
It looks like all the positive buzz round Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system paid off in sales. Windows 7 sold 234 percent more copies during its first few days on the market than Vista did during the same period of its release, according to research by the NPD Group.NPD’s data covers the week of Oct. 18 to 24 — Win (Read More)
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A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video rental and sale records.The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in the U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violation of the Video Privacy (Read More)
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A national data breach law got closer to passage this week.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills on Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security, in response to the plague of data thefts that have occurred over the last few years.The Personal Data Priv (Read More)
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The Consumer Travel Alliance, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights have joined me in comments filed today with the Federal Trade Commission asking the FTC to "include the category of travel data in your agenda for action to protect the privacy of information concerning co (Read More)
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iPhone Superguide comes to the App Store... eventually: Jason Snell at Macworld had a sad but unsurprising amount of trouble getting their app approved that contained “iPhone” in the title and a photo of an iPhone in the icon. (Mentioning or depicting the iPhone at all is problematic.) I’ll steal the same quote as Gruber: (Read More)
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SF Gate:
Dolan Media Co. said Friday it bought an 85 percent stake in DiscoverReady LLC, which provides document-review services to companies and their lawyers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Dolan sells services and information to legal, financial and real... Limited liability company - Business - Financial Services - (Read More)
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Washington Post:
Google this week unveiled a new feature called Dashboard, intended to give users a way to view -- and in modest ways limit -- the breadth of information the search giant collects about our online lives. To check out Dashboard, browse to this link, and sign in to your Google account. From there, you can manage which Google D (Read More)
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The nature and scope of new government electronic surveillance programs in the aftermath of September 11 have presented acute constitutional questions about executive authority, the Fourth Amendment, and the separation of powers. But legal challenges to these new surveillance programs have been stymied—and deci- sions on th (Read More)
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This Article explores a conflict between the protections afforded interpersonal relations in Lawrence v. Texas and the vulnerability experienced under the Fourth Amendment by individuals who share their lives with others. Under the Supreme Court’s third-party doctrine, we have no constitutionally protected expectation of pr (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn’t officially go on sale until Nov. 10.Activision Blizzard, the game’s publisher, (Read More)
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The Next Web:
Google Voice is arguably the US equivalent to Spotify. Nothing but good things have been spoken about the service and international Google fanatics are waiting enviously for the day Google announces international availability.The bad news is that no date is confirmed. The good news is that it’s definitely coming, agreements (Read More)
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michaelzimmer.org:
Remember Cuil, the search engine launched in 2008 that was supposed to be a Google-killer? Didn’t think so.Anyway, one of Cuil’s touted competitive advantages was that it didn’t track user search queries. Its original privacy policy (dated July 27, 2008) went to great lengths to make users feel comfortable about the privacy (Read More)
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Social Media:
I just finished up my second day of reporting at ad:tech in New York for ad:tech, a conference about the digital side of the advertising industry. The event happens ten times a year all over the world and I last reported on the event for ad:tech in San Francisco.At this year’s New York conference I saw many of the same thin (Read More)
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Branding Strategy Insider:
1: Facebook replaces personal emailQuestion: Google has it, Hoover has it (in the UK anyway), TiVo had it, lost it and has somewhat got it back. Xerox had it, but nobody really cares anymore. So what is it?It's when a brand name becomes the verb associated with its use. So rather than searching, you Google, or TiVo when di (Read More)
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