Posts Tagged digital privacy
Ever heard of Path- the new Facebook/Instagram-like service that allows users to share personal “moments” in their life? After launch, the app asks if the user wants to to “add friends” from contacts, Facebook, or via email invitation. I gave it a try a while back but didn’t select to add friends in any of [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Consumers don’t mind sharing some of their personal information-as long as there’s something in it for them… A new report by PwC’s consumer intelligence series entitled “Consumer privacy: What are consumers willing to share?” delves deeper into the question of exactly that: will you share, and if so, what and how much? A survey of [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →First of all, what is crowdsourcing? According to Wikipedia- crowdsourcing is related to, but not the same as, human-based computation, which refers to the ways in which humans and computers can work together to solve problems. These two methods can be used together to accomplish tasks. Wikipedi is in fact one of the largest examples of [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Sometimes in the world of mobile phone privacy, a dark cloud truly can have a silver lining. Such is the case with the recent blowup over the social media iOS app Path, which was caught taking users’ address books without permission or even notification and uploading them to their own servers. In a surprisingly honest [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There’s potentially good news out of Capitol Hill in the battle for mobile phone privacy rights. On January 30th, Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) introduced a discussion draft of a bill aimed at preventing mobile phone companies from using monitoring software without their customers’ knowledge and consent. If passed, the bill would give the Federal Trade [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →In a recent speech on Data Privacy Day, Federal Trade Commission head Julie Brill had some tough words for “data brokers” on the Internet, warning that the FTC will soon be pushing for laws to protect consumer digital privacy. Even though the event was live-streamed on Facebook, she singled out Facebook, as well as search [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Your data is your business. It always has been that way, and that’s the way it should stay. You know that various bits and bytes of information about you, your purchases, calls, searches and many, many other things are known to the vendor that offers that service to you. Did you know, however, that there [...]
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