iCloud – Darker Than Expected
Imagine this: You have an iPhone, iPad and Mac computer. You use all three devices mostly for personal home use, but you also receive work e-mail on them. Medical records, tax returns, and other confidential information goes on these devices.…
Dark iClouds
We now know that Apple will use next week's Worldwide Developer’s Conference to unveil iCloud, its new cloud storage product. Apple’s first attempt at cloud storage, MobileMe, was such a failure that Steve Jobs publicly tore into…
Is Apple Changing Its Story on User Tracking?
Two weeks ago, Apple and Google were called to answer growing concerns over privacy practices before Senate lawmakers. Today, executives from both companies responded to questions in a Senate hearing, but did little to alleviate our fears of…
The Silence of the Communicators
Apple, Google and Amazon are in the communications business, but their leaders all need to take some courses at Hamburger University to learn how to communicate with their customers. Any trial lawyer or investigator will tell you that WHEN something…
RFID Tags – The Invisible Threat
While the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether it’s lawful to covertly track a suspected felon through warrantless GPS monitoring (see April 15, 2011 petition here), the European Commission is tackling a more powerful, already implemented…
Erasing Your Past is Impossible
More publicity for Reputation.com in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, featuring lots of people worried about unflattering information about themselves on the web. How to get rid of it? It turns out you often can’t. Once something…
The Right to Privacy on the Web
What is the right level of privacy we are entitled to expect on the web? The answer is expanding and contracting by the day, but not only because legislators in Europe are attacking cookies and newspaper stories, or that people are figuring…
