Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes: Who couldn’t love the idea ofthe new Amazon Cloud Drive? You get at least 5GBs of free cloud-based storage, and its trivial to get 20GBs of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. Used in concert with theAmazon Cloud Player you get a fine cloud-based music player that can be used either from…
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A Response to Commissioner Rosch on Do Not Track
Jonathan Mayer writes: Late last week FTC Commissioner Rosch penned a column in which he repeated a number of hackneyed criticisms of Do Not Track. Senators McCaskill and Pryor articulated similar concerns at a recent hearing. This piece sequentially deconstructs Rosch’s column and replies to each of his substantive critiques. Read Jonathan’s counterpoint on CIS. …
Consultation on implementation of Telecoms Reform Package
TJ McIntyre writes: There are just a few days left if you wish to comment on the Department of Communications proposals for implementation of the Telecoms Reform Package. While there’s quite a lot contained in the five sets of proposed regulations, the portions of most interest to me are the proposals regarding the revised E-Privacy Directive (.doc)…
Privacy backers balk at firms tracking people via cellphone
Noam Cohen of the New York Times reports: A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: Services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game. But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually…