May 18, 2012
The FBI is currently in the process of trying to amend the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to cover Web companies as well as telecommunications providers. The bureau is hoping to work with companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook in order to incorporate backdoors for wiretapping their services.
In the past, the FBI has worked to develop independent solutions for these firms, but, as...
May 11, 2012
The debate surrounding mobile privacy is really heating up as smartphones become more ubiquitous. Consumers are growing dependent on their mobile devices, and are taking advantage of the hundreds of thousands of apps that are available to them. The problem, however, comes into play when they realize how much of their data these apps have.
As Jules Polonetsky, the Director and Co-Chairman of the...
April 22, 2012
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is more commonly known as CISPA, is expected to receive a House vote this week. The Internet community, with the exception of tech giants such as Google and Facebook, has been raising concerns about the bill claiming that...
April 5, 2012
The idea of facial recognition has been equated with Hollywood and the government for a long time. However, companies, including Face.com, are taking the phenomenon mainstream.
While it’s a fascinating concept, Gil Hirsch, the CEO of Face.com, explained to WebProNews, that the process has been somewhat challenging. According to Hirsch, Hollywood has presented facial recognition as a form of surveillance, which has “creeped out” lots of...
April 3, 2012
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission released its final report on privacy. The Commission hopes to bring privacy by design, simplified choice for businesses and consumers, and greater transparency through its recommendations.
As WebProNews previously reported, the White House also released a...
March 27, 2012
- Could Google Instant suggest you out of a job? According to one Japanese man's claims, that search algorithm is precisely what landed him a pink slip and permanent spot on the...
March 20, 2012
If you haven’t heard of “ambient social networking” yet, get ready, because it’s quickly becoming a trend. The concept is also known as social discovery and, essentially, it takes the idea of check-in services a little further. These new location-based apps run silently behind the scenes on users’ mobile devices and notify them when other users they know enter the same vicinity.
Highlight is one app that does...
March 6, 2012
- Face it, Google already knows you better than your friends or family, so why not cuddle up next to the giant and let it make...
March 1, 2012
- Remember how proud Google was when it unified all of its services under a single privacy policy? Well, Big G's excitement was tempered when the EU asked it to...
February 28, 2012
The Obama Administration announced a privacy plan last week in hopes of increasing protections for consumer privacy. The Administration has been working toward this effort for several months and has created a framework consisting of a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, a multi-stakeholder process to determine how the rights will apply to the context of business, an adequate enforcement model, and a commitment to strengthen...