Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 6, 2010
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The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning on investigating the privacy and security implications of cloud computing, behavioural advertsing, and several other privacy matters related distinctly with internet activity according to a recent
filing (statement starts roughly on Page 8 of the PDF) with the
Federal Communications Commission.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 6, 2010
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On January 5, 2010, the European Union's Article 29 Working Party published an opinion dated December 1, 2009 about Israli data protection laws.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 4, 2010
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As a "hired brain" for a lot of technology companies, and also one that works with a fair number of startups, we regularly run into issues dealing with visas and bringing foreign workers to the U.S. I am not going to go on a tirade of whether it is good to have a visa process for foreign workers or not, but, especially in startups, I think there are several compelling reasons to do startup visas (especially with forming companies in the U.S./job creation etc.). One thing that is for sure, of any startup I have worked with, the most important thing is the synergy between the founding team.
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Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jan 2, 2010
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Outsourcing isn't an issue of if anymore, but when. Specialization in development, production, and skill set make certain issues cheaper and easier to outsource and get an expert on task. However, outsourcing presents a lot of risks. Some of those risks include the following:
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Dec 22, 2009
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I4i, a small Toronto based software company sued Microsoft for patent infringement, won an injunction and $290 million USD, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld the ruling on December 22, 2009.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Dec 22, 2009
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For the past few years Google has been expanding its reach in the realm of operating systems, quickly attracting users and developers alike by releasing the source code under open source. It started in
2007, with the unveiling of Android, a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. Android has been available as open source since October 21, 2008 (Google opened the entire source code under an Apache License, which allows vendors to freely add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community). Now, Google is gearing up to directly compete with Microsoft's Windows OS with Google's Chrome OS.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Dec 22, 2009
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Well, as the readers probably have noticed, the blog has been a bit slow lately, and so I wanted to give a little update as to why.
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on Dec 15, 2009
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This is part 3 of highlights from the FTC’s December 7th Privacy Roundtable. Part 1 covered the panel on "Exploring Existing Regulatory Frameworks," and Part 2 covered the panel on "Benefits and Risks of Collecting, Using, and Retaining Consumer Data" This post highlights comments from "Consumer Expectations and Disclosures" and "Information Brokers."
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on Dec 9, 2009
This is part 2 of highlights from the FTC’s December 7th Privacy Roundtable. Part 1 covered the panel on "Exploring Existing Regulatory Frameworks." This post highlights comments from "Benefits and Risks of Collecting, Using, and Retaining Consumer Data." This session was moderated by Jeffrey Rosen of The George Washington University Law School and Chris Olsen, of the FTC's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.
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on Dec 8, 2009
The FTC’s December 7th Privacy Roundtable assembled a Who’s Who of privacy luminaries, academics, advocates, and industry players. This post highlights some of the more interesting comments from the meeting. I also tweeted the event (@aarontitus, #FTC #Privacy or #ftcpriv) and the FTC has posted the webcast if you missed it. The next Roundtable is scheduled for January 28, 2010 in Berkeley, CA and will also be broadcast online.
