Our mothers have instilled in us a strong value of virtues of:* patience* compassion* worth* common sense, being practical and* the virtue of prayer Moms, thank you for taking the time to teach us and instill values, even when we thought we was right and you were wrong! You all are our inspiration to do [...]
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Scott Cleland, President of Precursor LLC, talks about what Google’s Wi-Spy scandal means to Americans’ privacy, as well as what it may portend for broader Internet industry regulation. Media Freedom
IT IS astounding how misinformed and shallow the thinking of many journalists around the Pacific has been when faced with a quickfire debate on such terms as “development journalism” and “peace journalism”. Simply because one Canadian media educator trumpeted a discredited interpretation of “development journalism” – which Westerners like to project – based around the [...]
Computerworld takes a look at “frictionless sharing” with Netflix, the DVD rental and online video streaming service. There has been recent interest in Congress in changing the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which requires written consent from consumers before video rental records can be shared, and the consent must be given before each disclosure. The [...]
In the last couple of months, there has been increasing focus on the practice by some employers of requiring job applicants to hand over their passwords or allow access to their private accounts on social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Google+ in order to gather personal data when the social-networking profiles are closed to the public. In April, [...]
I don’t really have anything to add to this excerpt from Holman Jenkins’ column today, “How We’re Holding Back Broadband,” regarding the spectrum crunch, caused by politics, and how it threatens broadband ubiquity in America: …Like food rotting on a dock, only politics and policy prevents spectrum from getting where it’s needed. However, the industry’s big boys, [...]
http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_data-breach-investigations-report-2012_en_xg.pdf A report by Verizon highlights some extremely troubling trends about the types of data breaches occurring around the globe and also how organizations of all sizes are failing to adequately respond to new threats. Verizon studied 855 breaches in 2011 involving organizations in 36 countries and compromising over 174 million records. Those figures are [...]
Brian Cathcart: Free speech? Not when a newspaper sets a private eye on a journalist THE FREE SPEECH BLOG