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In last week’s PWI lunch, Monika Kuschewsky explained to us the ever-changing data protection landscape. She’s a partner at Van Bael & Bellis, where she heads the firm’s European data protection law practice. Data protection has been reinforced with the Treaty of Lisbonne, now there is an obligation to inform any data loss or bridges Read More …
I am sure you heard already, even if you don’t have a PSP. We can read in The Economist that: Sony revealed that names, addresses, passwords and possibly credit-card details of 77m accounts were stolen when hackers gained access to the network it runs in 60 countries for its PlayStation online-gaming system, as well as Read More …
Ouroboros is a serpent that eats its tail. Check this 2 recent news about data privacy in France: 1. Last week Google has been fined by France on data privacy violation (keeping e-mails and other personal data), as stated by Google News in Daily Motion Google Inc. (GOOG) opened higher and is up near 3% Read More …
James Temple wrote this Monday about the Do Not Track bill :California Senator unveiling “Do Not Track” bill This morning, Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, will unveil proposed legislation that would force Internet companies doing business in the state to provide California consumers with a way to opt out of online monitoring. An array of Read More …
Data privacy is not a new issue. I found this great “user bill of rights” from an excellent editorial from last year in the San Francisco Chronicle, that has not grown old a bit: Users have the right to: 1. Honesty: Tell the truth. Don’t make our information public against our will and call it Read More …
Last friday we had a very interesting networking lunch at PWI with Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London Ltd. She talked to us about the changes in the news media landscape, with Twitter, Facebook, Tencent and thousand of blogs and sites where people are posting their latest news. She presented some hard facts Read More …
I went last week to the Quantified Self Show and Tell. It was my first encounter with active ‘trackers’, and I was curious. Our modern life is so busy, how could someone find more time to keep track of daily information? And is it worth it? What about data privacy? Misha Chellam acted as facilitator Read More …
Read Robin Cangie in her article Facebook Doesn’t Need Mind Control to Control You She compares Facebook’s new Sponsored Stories application to a panopticon, that is a circular building, originally designed for prisons, that allows outside observers to watch prisoners without their knowing. That creates a “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”, as Wikipedia puts it Read More …
All these buzz about tracking clicks began with Bing, but goes well beyond that Search Engine. Read this article, it talks about clicks and other telemetries (remote measurement and reporting of information). There are a lot of examples of applications where you have been tracked, knowingly or not. You could see it as: you give Read More …
I liked the analogy Michael Driscoll and Roger Ehrenberg used in their article announcing GigaOM’s Structure: Big Data conference on March 23 in New York City. In a similar vein, much of the world’s most valuable information is trapped in digital sand, siloed in servers scattered around the globe. These vast expanses of data — Read More …