Dan Goodin reports: Microsoft says it will offer a privacy setting in the next version of Internet Explorer that will make it easy for users to keep their browsing habits from being tracked by advertising networks and other third-party websites. The feature, known as Tracking Protection, was unveiled on Tuesday, five days after the Federal…
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Cablegate: It’s not really about the cables
Because I haven’t really blogged about Cablegate, let me make a few points — knowing that I will almost certainly irritate the hell out of some people I truly respect by the time I’m done: WikiLeaks Didn’t Steal the Documents I find it somewhat mind-boggling how many governmental and non-governmental folks seem to equate the…
Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know
Emily Steel reports: Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them. The project is the first of its kind in the fast-growing business of tracking Internet users and selling personal details about their…
Location matters up in the cloud – but so does integrity and politics
Michael Geist writes: … After Amazon pulled the plug, Wikileaks quickly shifted to a European host, demonstrating how easily sites can shift from one cloud provider to another. Although it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud computing equipment when discussing services that by their very definition operate across borders in the “cloud”,…