Following the cheating scandal at Harvard which forced 70 students to leave, apparently Harvard administrators secretly search the email accounts of resident deans to determine who leaked the cheating scandal. The New York Times reported:
Several Harvard faculty members speculated that the administration had felt free to search the e-mail…
The EU Competition Commission concluded that Microsoft failed to comply with its 2009 agreement to offer browser choices to 15 million Windows customers so rather the customers were stuck with Internet Explorer. Under the terms of the 2009 settlement agreement between the EU and Microsoft when Microsoft Windows customers bought…
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Given the recent disclosures of cyber attacks by Facebook, Google, and Apple, businesses need to establish policies about what their employees can do with Social Media whether on the job or just making comments about their employers. Each business needs to consider their employees, customers, and market places to…
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A New York State Judge recently ruled that a cell phone user has no reasonable expectation of privacy and the 4th Amendment right of privacy was not violated by the police’s pinging the GPS device in the defendant’s cell phone. Judge John L. DeMarco decision and order in the case…
The FTC settled its claims that HTC sold millions of mobile devices using the Droid and Microsoft software because the devices were not secure. The FTC’s Complaint specifically identified “potential exposure of sensitive information and sensitive device functionality through the security vulnerabilities in HTC mobile devices, consumers are at risk…
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Recently the NY Times admitted that it had been the victim of Cyber attacks, and then the NY Times reported that the Chinese Army may be behind the online attacks based on a report by Mandiant security firm which:
…has tied more than a hundred cyber attacks on U.S.
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The FTC reminded consumers to protect against identity theft during tax filing season, and provided a laundry list of precautions to insure that tax information does not fall into the wrong hands including:
A new Executive Order from the White House entitled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” was noted in the State of the Union with these comments:
…will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. Now, Congress must act…
Just as Google proposed a settlement with the EU, on January 30, 2013 i-Comp filed a new complaint of antitrust charges about which Bloomberg reported that Google’s “search results discriminate against competitors.” I-Comp is led by Microsoft and posted on its website:
By creating an illegal network of exclusive relationships…
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Gender statistics on the Internet are thought provoking, including Pew Research’s report that 75% of women and 63% of men use Social Media. Also Pew reported 67% of “online American adults are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site” in the US. Likely no surprise to anyone.…
Continue Reading 75% of Women Use Social Media, However Only 10% of Women Post on Wikipedia
