| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously
— Google Glass isn't even available for consumers and some in US Congress are already formally raising privacy questions. Google's reaction? Privacy has been “top of mind” as it has developed Glass, and it takes trust seriously.
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Google's Eric Schmidt On Data Privacy: The Internet Needs A Delete Button
— With so much data being collected about us online, can our offline identities ever be divorced from our web personas? Today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt offered a simple solution for kids being brought …
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Log In with PayPal simplifies shopping, uses your account on merchant sites
— There's no shortage of single sign-on solutions out there. But where as Facebook, Twitter and Google all have a heavy focus on social (obviously), PayPal's take on the field is built around commerce and privacy.
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Silicon Valley learning the D.C. art of secret money
— Google, Microsoft, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other digital heavyweights increasingly are borrowing a favorite technique from the world of politics: secret money. — These top tech executives and their companies are embracing stealth …
| Curt Woodward / Xconomy: |
Schmidt: Google Glass Critics “Afraid of Change,” Society Will Adapt
— Google Glass is just getting into the hands of developers, and you're still many months away from seeing consumers walking around with the voice-activated computer display/camera devices on their faces.
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
CISPA vote means companies can't promise to protect privacy
— Proposed amendment to CISPA said Internet companies' promises to protect customer privacy were legally enforceable. But then Republicans voted it down. — Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet companies and e-mail providers …
| Karen Gullo / Bloomberg: |
Google Fights U.S. National Security Probe Data Demand
— Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest search engine, is challenging a demand by the U.S. government for private user information in a national security probe, according to a court filing.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Google's Privacy Director Is Stepping Down
— When Alma Whitten was tapped to be Google's first director of privacy in 2010, CNet declared hers the “hardest job at Google.” A long time engineer at the company with expertise in computer security, she was put in charge of a program overseeing products …
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).