Silicon Valley drifts towards privacy legislation
The news that Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites have been (unintentionally) sending some user details to advertisers adds to my growing sense that the companies either do not place a...
View ArticleApple does not track you but the police may
A privacy storm has blown up over the revelation (if that is the right word) that iPhones and 3G iPads keeps data on the movements of their owners, which is backed up to personal computers when the...
View ArticleGoogle risks the same European fate as Microsoft
Google’s stance against the European Commission on the subject of privacy – rolling out its new policy for sharing personal data among its sites despite warnings that it may breach European law –...
View ArticleFT column: A closed cabal can be good for business
Everybody loves a conspiracy – provided they are part of it. That is the lesson of the outbreak of outrage in the UK last week, when the “secret world government” that attends the Bilderberg meetings...
View ArticleTech entrepreneurs are the new rock stars
Spend one-and-a-half days at a Founders Forum event and it’s impossible not to get infected by the techie-enthusiast bug. The day after last week’s big get-together I found myself beginning a Bob the...
View ArticleFT column: Do not blindly trust official guardians of our security
Last month technicians from GCHQ, the UK electronic surveillance agency, stood over journalists from The Guardian newspaper to make sure that they destroyed a computer containing files leaked to them...
View ArticleThe privacy business
A little while ago I conversed with someone over email. He calls himself Alastair but I have no idea if that’s his real name. I doubt it. His emails are compelling. Describing himself as “someone who...
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