Loek Essers reports: Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday. All German panorama photos were made inaccessible as a precaution while Microsoft evaluates the complaints and contemplates a solution,…
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French Data Regulator Chides Google
Eric Pfanner reports: Already facing scrutiny from antitrust authorities and privacy regulators on a variety of fronts, Google was criticized Wednesday by French data protection authorities, who accused the company of being insufficiently forthcoming in an investigation of its new privacy policy. On behalf of the 27 member states of the European Union, the French…
Carrier IQ Class Action Sent Back to State Court
Laura Brookover writes: Judge Feess of the Central District of California recently rejected Carrier IQ’s attempt to litigate in federal court a class action concerning whether Carrier IQ’s software, installed on a wide range of smart phone devices from many different manufacturers running on various wireless networks, violated California law. Judge Feess remanded the case…
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips
Bob McMillan reports: If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone’s voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn’t welcome on Big Blue’s networks. The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really…