ON the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting privacy on the Internet. It is an artifact of the 1990s, intended as a light-touch policy to nurture innovation in an emerging industry. And its central concept is “notice and choice,” in which [...]
WASHINGTON — “On the Internet, the First Amendment is a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a law professor at Indiana University. He was talking about last week’s ruling from an Italian court that Google executives had violated Italian privacy law by allowing users to post a video on one of its services. In one [...]
The controversy over the lack of privacy in the initial release of Google Buzz, a social media program, is but one in a series of privacy issues in recent years that have affected companies doing business online. Buzz, which is embedded into the popular Gmail e-mail program, is the most recent. Buzz lets Gmail users [...]
All the computer users surf the Internet for performing various tasks like online shopping, money transfer, online reservation and other tasks. When you perform any of these tasks, you have to provide your personal details like credit card number, e-mail id and other information. Confidential information stored on the computer can be used by hackers. [...]
I’m reading more and more articles about “privacy” online. I suppose I have a tainted view, I think once you step into the internet fish bowl, you’ve agreed to surrender some of your privacy. I also firmly believe, and I do mean firmly, that the internet is rife with user generated content. And I’m not the [...]
