Archive for 2011/04/28
Sony faces global legal scrutiny over breach
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyDutch collecting society BUMA targeting websites that embed radiostreams
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business ModelsTo start litigation against portal NederlandFM as the operator of that site refuses to pay
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2503049/buma-start-rechtszaak-embedden-radiostream.html
Fring App’s Four-Way Video Calling Just Went Live
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, Tech EvolutionIs Netflix’s model a blueprint for digital music?
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsOne obvious difference between music and movies is that people don’t typically watch a film more than once or twice, but they listen to favorite songs maybe hundreds of times. But Kaplan argues that people value the media differently. He wrote there’s less value in music because movies require more of the viewer’s attention than music does for the listener.
Congressman wants FTC probe of iPhone tracking
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyFBI Hunting Down World Of Warcraft Gold Farmers?
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?It’s not in Google’s bottom line (though, that’s part of it), but in the massive consumer surplus created by tools like Google that allow people to do things they simply couldn’t do before and do other things much more efficiently
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business ModelsGoogle is, without a doubt, becoming the biggest threat to worldwide network security, and the privacy of every concerned internet user
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data ProtectionThey have created a barrage of “services” (most of them “free”) that definitely have a lot of positive potential, yet have demonstrated over and over again how psychopathic they are with our personal information. Google repeately claims to have no evil intentions, yet they’re never very clear with what info they’re gathering, what need there would be for it, and often deny they’re even gathering it at all. They never directly offer you a way to control or consent to any of this from your end.
Google has no interest in what anyone but Google wants. When confronted with privacy concerns, they claim to be a ”do no evil” company, and that “your privacy is very important” to them, everything worded in true Corporate Speak. Google arbitrarily decides what we supposedly should be okay with, and arbitrarily shuns any other arguments as “inapplicable” or “misinformed”, or simply “nonsense”. Those qualities are true psychopathic qualities.
Google has often been referred to as an “octopus” on steroids. Its tentacles seem to reach every crevice of the World Wide Web in its quest to stay locked on to everyone’s online activities. Despite thousands of major requests from individuals, groups, and companies to respect private networks (and street properties alike), they continue to plant cookies that keep reporting back directly from the subject computers, and logging the whole thing.
Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we’re up too late
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / AwarenessIndia expands possibilities to remove/block internet content
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyAccording to the new rules, “internet intermediaries”, a term used to cover a wide range of actors such as social media and other platforms used to post information and media, need to remove the inappropriate content within 36 hours. There is no procedure for appeal.
Police Raid Russia’s Largest Porn BitTorrent Site
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File SharingBitTorrent Tracker Becomes Official Movie Distributor
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionDutch Minister of Economic Affairs Maxime Verhagen: there is no censorship when mobile operators decide which service consumers can use, because using the internet on a mobile device is fundamentally different from using the internet at home
Posted: 2011/04/28 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public PolicyDoes want to make sure that providers do not block services entirely, but simply charge a bit more instead
Dutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2502335/verhagen-begrijpt-heffing-internetdiensten.html
