Flat screen displays in stores employ facial recognition technology to tailor ads to a customer’s gender, age and ethnicity. Smart phone applications can track a user’s identity, location and even friends. The personal information posted on social networks may be accessible by employers – or law enforcement. This brave new world demands a fundamental rethinking [...]
For consumer groups that concern themselves with Internet privacy, the efforts to press policymakers to enact regulations or pass laws setting boundaries for collecting data online recall the plight of the long-suffering Brooklyn Dodgers fan: “Wait ’til next year” serves as a fitting mantra for both. So 2009 came and went with little movement on [...]
Less than one week until Data Privacy Day is here (January 28th, 2011). The NCSA would like to highlight the importance of social networking safety on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others. According to the 2010 NCSA / Norton by Symantec Online Safety Study, 63% of respondents said that they regularly use a social networking [...]
In almost everything we search today, we always Google it. Since the dawn of the internet and search engines, our lives have been spent searching and searching and searching for stuffs online. It’s intelligent, fast and convenient. It makes our search so much easier and more convenient. But here is one obstacle to this kind [...]
This past Christmas brought both of my kids into the “iPod” age – both getting iPod Touch’s as gifts. They really are very cool devices (I want one now) but, as I’ve discussed in other postings, they introduce a new realm of safety concerns, as do the latest video game consoles for your television. I [...]
