Ryan Singel writes: Facebook has long been a one-way valve. You put data in, so you can connect with friends, and then you can’t get it out and use it the way you would like to, even as the company is trying to corner the market on your identity. And Thursday night Google called out…
Category: Online
Digitally desecrating Germany’s landscape
Jeff Jarvis writes: Street View is online in Germany and it includes – or rather, excludes – 244,000 addresses that Germans have demanded be pixelated. They have, in their word, demanded their Verpixelungsrecht. It is more offensive than I had imagined, a desecration of the public demanded and abetted by German politicians and media on a supposed…
More trouble for Street View in Germany?
Jeremy Kirk reports: Google is facing fresh complaints over Street View in Germany, after technical proble to be visible rather than blurred in a preview of the service launched earlier this weekms caused some properties. Users of Apple iPads and iPhones found that the blurring was not complete on their devices, said Johannes Caspar, head…
EU to create ‘right to be forgotten’ online
Bob Sullivan reports: Just days after U.S. voters threw overboard one of their top privacy advocates in Congress, the European Commission announced Thursday that it will push for creation of a Web users’ “right to be forgotten.” The commission, which is the executive body of the European Union, plans to update 15-year-old laws governing collection…