The New York Times is running a story about a woman who says her cat is clearly visible through the living room window of her second-floor apartment using Street View
Google saw someone’s cat - and so it begins. Earlier this week, the search engine giant released Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to see things from the perspective of a person driving down a public road. Now privacy concerns are b
In order to remove potential obstacles to personal data flows and to ensure a high level of protection within the EU, data protection legislation has been harmonised. The Commission also engages in dialogues with non-EU countries.
[Though] most people hate digital rights management (DRM) schemes on digital goods like software and music, that’s exactly what we’d all like for our identity information. For example, I’d love to be able to control how my bank uses, stores, shares,
we've added a "regexp"-box to the form to find series or automatas of characters in strings to use regexps as defined by the MySQL 4.x definition (done against the entire search query made by aol users but only against words). A "word" is a query element
Not wanting to be included in Google's master database of highly personalized profiles, James Thomas decides to go it alone (well, with Yahoo, Ask, other services)...and here's the saga....
"Perhaps it's time for the 'sphere to pressure Google to open up and let us at least have some level of understanding of what data they're compiling on us and how they're using it -- and let us selectively or completely opt out."
M. Windl, V. Winterhalter, A. Schmidt, und S. Mayer. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2023)