Archive for the 'Privacy' Category

Google bows to keystroke privacy concerns

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

To quell privacy fears, Google says IP addresses and other data stored through use of Google Suggest will be rendered anonymous within a day. See all ZDNet Chrome coverage. Google says it will anonymize user data received through search requests entered in the company’s search engine…
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Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Bill Gates told a Hong Kong gathering that society will need more explicit rules governing privacy boundaries around software as the mobile/PC line blurs. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose “an interesting software challenge”, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software…
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With tech, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod notes that where technology travels, the law will follow–sometimes to our detriment. George Orwell’s 1984 envisioned a world where individuals were controlled and monitored by centralized government. In such a world, the individual had no place to hide from governmental omnipresence. …
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Why Real ID is a flawed idea

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Internet Attorney Sophia Cope says the new law will do more harm than good and the better idea is for Congress to revisit a fundamentally flawed law. The government claims that driver’s license “reform” will help combat illegal immigration and generally protect national security, but it fails to…
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Why Real ID is a flawed law

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Internet attorney Sophia Cope says the act will do more harm than good and the better idea is for Congress to revisit the fundamentally flawed law. The government claims that driver’s license “reform” will help combat illegal immigration and generally protect national security, but it fails to acknowledge…
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Google spars with European lawmakers over privacy

Monday, January 21st, 2008

At hearing, company’s global privacy counsel assails officials, saying they’re taking a privacy case and trying to “shoehorn it into a competition law review.” Google attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have competition authorities consider the handling of personal information in its $3.1…
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