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Google Challenges FISA Gag Order To Protect Its Reputation
Google has just issued a legal challenge to the secret FISA court over its gag order that prevents it from being upfront with its customers over how many government data requests it receives. The company cites the First Amendment and the “right to free speech” as justification for its challenge, saying that “greater transparency is ...
GE Makes Industrial Internet Land Grab with AWS, Accenture + Pivotal
Looking to capitalize on the launch of its new “Predictivity” Big Data and analytics platform for the Industrial Internet, GE has outlined a number of expanded partnerships with companies at the cutting edge of Big Data, including Accenture, Pivotal and Amazon Web Services. By leveraging these new partnerships, GE aims to position itself as a ...
Snowden & Obama Muddy the Waters Over PRISM Access
Ed Snowden might be holed up in some Hong Kong hideaway at the moment, but that doesn’t mean he has to shut himself away from the world altogether. On the contrary, Snowden was keen to dispel some of the criticisms he’d received, as well as the denials from certain tech companies over the last few ...
Microsoft Tempts Schools with $199 Surface RT Discount Price Offer
School’s out for the summer, and that means that it’s the perfect time to start thinking ahead to next year, especially if you happen to be involved with budgeting for a school district. It also just so happens to be the perfect time to make a move if you’re pushing to get your computer hardware ...
Adobe Creative Cloud Reignites Subscription Model Debate
Adobe has finally announced the release of its long-awaited and somewhat controversial Creative Cloud suite of design applications. In a blog post this morning, the company said that hundreds of new features and enhancements have been added to the updated versions of its apps, which include its flagship Photoshop CC, plus Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, ...
Google Apps Banned in Sweden Over Privacy Concerns
In a ruling that went almost unnoticed last week amidst the furore of the PRISM scandal in the US, Sweden’s Datainspektionen (data privacy watchdog) has stepped in to ban a local authority from using Google Apps, saying the company’s privacy policy is not compatible with the country’s privacy laws. Following this decision, the data protection ...
Facebook To Announce News Reader on June 20?
Facebook already kicks ass in the world of social media, and now it’s setting its site on dominating news consumption as well. Various reports over the weekend suggest that Facebook is now developing its own RSS service, presumably with half an eye on the legions of Google Reader users who’ll suddenly be left without a ...
PRISM Scandal Rumbles On: Facebook, Microsoft & Apple Come Clean Over Data Requests
And so the drama over the NSAgate scandal rumbles on. This weekend, three technology companies implicated in the so-called PRISM spying program released limited information about the number of surveillance requests they had received over the course of the last year, in an apparent effort to show that they aren’t hiding anything. Google made a ...
Google Announces Big Data Plan To Eradicate Child Porn
For all the benefits it brings to the world, the internet also has a much darker side to it that only causes harm. And of these shady corners of the world wide web, few will disagree that none are more abhorrent than those sites which harbor child pornography. But despite growing awareness of this problem ...
Hats Off to Edward Snowden: His Sacrifice Gives You A Choice
A lot has been said about Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed its secret PRISM spying program to The Guardian newspaper last week. Some have praised the guy as a hero for exposing what really is an outrageous beach of web user’s privacy rights, while others have taken a different stance and called for ...