A video about personal information was recorded in October, 2008 and was posted on WatchIT’s website which is one of many educational programs available. Please take a look to see which programs can help your business.
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December 2008
Google Not Rated in Top 20 Most Trusted Companies
A recent annual report from Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe ranks the top four most trusted companies as American Express, eBay, IBM, and Amazon. However Google did not make the top 20, yet Yahoo! and Facebook made the top 20 for the first time. This makes for interesting news, but given…
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Australian Legal Notice of Home Repossession Served on Facebook!
An estimated 140 million folks use Facebook worldwide, but this is the first story about legal notice of a lawsuit through a social network. The law has never been fast to move, and there’s no reason to believe that any other country will adopt Facebook as a means of legal…
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Disturbing Headline! “U.S. not ready for cyber attack”
Although not much of a surprise to read this headline that the US is not ready for a cyber attack and I guess Yogi Berra was right with his famous “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” Clearly the September 11th attack was a wake-up call, but not a surprise that…
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Call Centers Relocate to the US
Dell charges a premium for customers to call US based support, and other companies are relocating call centers to the US so that customer service agents will speak “American.” Apparently even though the economics make a great deal of sense for call centers to be based off-shore, there appear to…
Finally Pulitzer Prizes for Internet News!!!- What took so long?
A recent report that the Pulitzer Prizes will now be accepting submissions from Internet publication is clearly a sign of the times, but what took so long? Without question there’s no rocket science to see that dramatic decline in newspaper publication. As someone who cannot let a day go by…
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Destruction of Disk Contents May Lead to a Default Judgment
A Federal Magistrate Judge recommended the defendants be defaulted and pay attorneys fee in Gutman v. Klein sends a clear message for litigation throughout the US. Regardless of whether the Federal Judge adopts the Magistrate Judge’s Recommendation, it is clear that we will see more headlines like this in the…
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Social Networking Has Never Been More Popular, but What about User Content?
Facebook claims to have more than 120 million active members and it is the 4th most trafficked site in the world. Of course there are many other popular social network sites including LinkedIn and MySpace to name a few, and only to make things more interesting a recent report indicates…
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