GigaomBroadband Has Turned Our Homes Into Glass Houses
We’re adding broadband connections to everything, even our appliances, but as we use the web to see more of the world, we allow advertisers and marketers to see in. Instead of… Read more »
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We’re adding broadband connections to everything, even our appliances, but as we use the web to see more of the world, we allow advertisers and marketers to see in. Instead of… Read more »
Privacy is different for everyone. Add the conflicting goals of a site like Facebook which wants to make money off of people’s data, to the disparity between people’s tolerance for sharing,… Read more »
BT, the UK’s largest ISP, has decided to cut ties with Phorm, the deep packet inspection company that offered ISPs a way of targeting advertisements based on where their subscribers surfed… Read more »
Several marketing associations supported by Google (s goog) have banded together and released seven principles that they believe should govern online privacy. Are you ready for a journey to the Emerald… Read more »
Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Britain’s Home Office is accused of collusion with former spyware vendor Phorm after emails surfaced showing the department seeking Phorm’s approval for the… Read more »
In a nod toward privacy, Yahoo (s YHOO) today said it would only keep personal data on searchers and portal users for 90 days (double that in cases of fraud or suspicious… Read more »
Hosting company, turned cloud computing operator Rackspace Hosting (s RAX) said today it will buy startups Slicehost and Jungle Disk to boost its Mosso cloud offerings, and step up its competition… Read more »
For all the outrage over the Chinese government spying on Skype users, when it comes to privacy, consumers value the talk rather than walk the walk. We often don’t want the… Read more »
Conspiracy theorists might just be onto something after all. As we open up our homes and wallets to electronic devices, we’re also opening up our lives to surveillance. So before you… Read more »