There have news reports aplenty about Instragram’s about face regarding sharing users’ data that led Instragram to revert back to its 2010 Terms of Service (TOS). However a blog on the New York Times indicates that maybe all is not over with Instragram because: 

It was unclear whether reverting its…

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The Washington Post reported that the FTC and Google have reached a deal in the 2 year investigation about monopoly practices where Google “would agree to new limits on its ability to use snippets of content from other Web sites and would agree to make it easier for marketers to…

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Every business wants to pay the least taxes possible, even the US Supreme Court’s first opinion about the IRS code encouraged tax payers to figure out how to minimize their taxes. But since the Internet has eliminated the boundaries of time and geography, taxes on the Internet have become more…

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The FTC reported that 80% of apps used by children contained the ability to access the Internet (compared to 62% in 2011) and 13% had the ability to access user geo-location (compared to 10.5% in 2011). The New York Times reported:

Several hundred of the most popular educational and gaming…

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The Washington Post reported that during a federal investigation regarding a landfill owner, apparently two federal prosecutors used aliases to posted anonymous comments. Fred Heebe (he landfill owner under investigation) filed a defamation lawsuit based on the anonymous postings and hired a former FBI agent to find the posters.

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