Bring On The Inquisition! Judge Should Not Let Google Evil-doers Get Away!
<rant> Italian Judge Oscar Magi (photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up [...]
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services
The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are. For some people, that’s more information than they want out there. Well, three guys – Barry Borsboom, Frank Groeneveld, Boy van Amstel [...]
The right to Forget Law being pondered in France
Of course this is going to upset law enforcement, but in light of the hot topic of the weekend, how companies like Facebook and Google manage users privacy, maybe France might be on the right side of consumers for a change. France is not known for being particularly aggressive or progressive when it comes to [...]
Shocking ? Yet another way to ruin privacy via Twitter
With ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick on a roll today about Mark Zukerburg and the end of the age of privacy, with follow up from Steven Hodson (fixed) it is time to look not just at Facebook, but at other tools that are out there than can also alter your personal privacy landscape. While I think that [...]
Holiday Spirit Timepass: The Google Toilet
This is a fun video on Google. This video is not a reflection of our views. Many of us at Cloud Ave use Google extensively and offer our s*#t willingly. This is just a video in the spirit of holidays.
How to Crash a Party, or Do Not Send a URL and Password Through Twitter
Hey everyone, guess who is having a party at their house! Well everyone in the whole world knows at this point if you have been following people on Twitter. One of the basic rules of social networking is always work to keep yourself safe. If you post a link and a password to a protected [...]
Google Dashboard – It Is Like Having Your FBI File
Google today announced the release of Google Dashboard, an interface from which you can essentially manage your life Google life. According to Google, this offers more control to users In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, [...]
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private and clear of distortion or error. [...]
Your Honor, You’re Clueless. (Judge Orders Google to Shut Down Email Account)
Rocky Mountain Bank might as well be called Royal Sc***up Bank. An employee emailed loan documentation to the wrong email address. Bad, but not unseen mistake. However, he also mistakenly attached documents that should not have been sent to anyone in the first place: The attachment contained confidential information on 1,325 individual and business customers [...]
1984 or Panopticon
Image via Wikipedia Zoli brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border: there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this always interesting is that with the modern cloud computing environment, all you really need is a computer to act as your [...]
1984
Keeping Americans safe in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully screen materials entering the United States. – says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano justifying why the Obama administration largely upheld the Bush-era regulations about intrusive border searches of travelers’ laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices. I’ve heard that reasoning before. No, [...]
SaaS Certainty – Escrow is the Answer
I got an email the other day from Escrow Associates, a provider of software escrow services that has just today announced the release of their SaaS software escrow agreement. For those not accustomed to escrow services, they are a contract where by the IP of a product is held by a third party and is [...]
Now You Have a Choice: GoogleZon or the Opt-out Village
It’s really simple. Here’s your default choice: But now you can opt out of all google services. Welcome to the Village, courtesy of The Onion.
When People Feel the Need to Share Too Much
Image via Wikipedia Oversharers is a brand new web site started in January 2009 that has been silently collecting a large collection of people who share way too much on line. Given that the real time web is like watching a really bad episode of the Jerry Springer show, Oversharers is a laugh a minute [...]
Privacy, Data Ownership and Identity in an Increasingly Social World
Live blogged from the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston From the program – "It’s IM all over again!" as public services such as Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace increasingly cross from consumer into enterprise. As these tools become legitimate business services for marketing and collaboration, IT must determine how to move from blocking to [...]
