Sunday after the Thanksgiving Holiday, I was perusing through my Facebook account, and noticed a friend had posted something on her Wall regarding copyrighted material. Early the next day, I received a phone call/e-mail from another friend asking me what I thought about the Facebook copyright notice, and whether he should copy/paste it to his Wall. After […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
Mobile application developer, W3 Innovations, has reached a $50,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). W3 Innovations was charged, by the FTC, with collecting and storing information from children, such as e-mail addresses and messages posted on public message boards, without parental consent. This is the first time […]
Various European governments are heating up talks these days that are focused on regulating certain aspects of the Internet. Whether we are talking about issues related to privacy, speech, or content, data governance is being elevated on the international stage to the same level as such issues like terrorism, global warming, trade, and currency. In […]
In a non-binding opinion to be published by the EU Article 29 Working Party, a recommendation on online location-based privacy will likely affect how providers of smartphone technology do business in Europe. The report to be released by the advisory board will state that any geo-based information collected by phone and Internet companies on customer locations must be treated […]