Tagged: Privacy
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Twitter’s transparency report highlights rise in demand by governments for personal info News
03.07.2012 Ahead of Independence Day in the United States tomorrow, Twitter has unveiled its first Twitter Transparency Report, which highlights considerable demand for user information. -
How teens are fooling their parents online News
25.06.2012 More than 70pc of teenagers have found ways to avoid being monitored by their parents online, compared to 45pc of teens who have hidden their online behaviour from a parent in... -
Facebook vote gets low turnout, results ignored News
14.06.2012 Facebook’s site governance vote is over, but did the social network listen to its users? No, is the short answer. -
Have your say in Facebook’s site governance vote News
05.06.2012 Facebook has made some changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy and it is putting this to a vote from users. -
Is Facebook developing special accounts for under-13s? News
05.06.2012 Facebook is developing technology to allow children under the age of 13 to join the social network, The Wall Street Journal reports.Categories: Web Development, Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Media, Marketing, Internet, Games/Entertainment -
Social media is transforming the retail business - Accenture CTO News
31.05.2012 The increasing penetration of social media and smartphone technology is giving rise to the availability of context-based shopping experiences, according to Accenture CTO in...Categories: Social Media, Mobility, Internet, Digital Business, Data Management, Business Intelligence, Apps -
The death of privacy News
24.05.2012 A better understanding of privacy is required at all levels of society, writes John Kennedy. He warns that 21st-century technology will stretch the limits and our notions of... -
The search for knowledge has been enhanced by Google’s latest features News
17.05.2012 Hot on the heels of Bing’s social search revamp, Google have released intuitive new search features that put the search for knowledge, not social connections, at the forefront.Tags: Privacy, Wikipedia, Development, Technology, Search Engine, Siri, Apple, Microsoft, Search, Bing, Facebook, Google -
5 steps for a safe ROUTE when using location-based apps News
02.05.2012 While useful, geolocation also poses a security risk, but non-profit global information security association ISACA has five simple steps to follow for safety.Categories: Social Media, Risk Management, Mobile, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
CISPA – are tech giants backing off nervously? News
02.05.2012 The CISPA internet surveillance bill in the US – which looked like it had the unanimous support of tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft – appears to be losing support or...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Google engineer behind Street View Wi-Fi probe outed News
01.05.2012 Engineer Doe, the mysterious Google engineer who wrote the code that allowed Google’s Street View cars to gather private Wi-Fi data that raised privacy hackles in countries... -
SNOPA bill could see snooping employers fined thousands of dollars News
30.04.2012 The new Social Networking Protection Act (SNOPA) Bill introduced to the US Congress on Friday could result in employers facing fines of up to US$10,000 if they ask for access to... -
CISPA and the power to cyber snoop – er, what just happened? News
27.04.2012 What just happened to privacy on the web? Have large US internet giants and security agencies been given extra rights to snoop online? These are the questions in my mind after... -
The legalities of cloud (infographic) News
17.04.2012 While cloud computing, which enables the use of files and applications over the internet, offers many benefits to companies, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the...Categories: Virtualisation, Legal, IT Management, Internet, Intellectual Property, Data Management, CIOTags: Security, global , Law, Business , Infographic, Cloud Computing, Copyright, Privacy, Data protection -
Facebook ‘Download Your Information’ opens more data to users News
12.04.2012 From today, Facebook users will have the ability to download an expanded archive of their entire Facebook account history via the ‘Download Your Information’ app.Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Search, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Apps