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Mozilla: We’re About to Grab More Data About You, But Here’s How We’ll Keep It Safe
Jan 13th
Mozilla has some big plans up its sleeve in 2012. The non-profit open source foundation is planning some features for its Firefox Web browser and beyond that will require greater access to user data. In a blog post, the organization explains exactly how it intends to use and handle that data. In short, very carefully.
Some of Mozilla’s initiatives for this year include an HTML5 Web app store, a mobile operating system and perhaps most intensive of all, a decentralized system for user identification and authentication at the browser level. In other words, a browser-based replacement for usernames and passwords.
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Historically, Mozilla has thoroughly encrypted the data utilized for things like Firefox Sync, which allows users to sync bookmarks, passwords and other data across devices. That encryption, says Mozilla is even more solid that the type used by banks.
Secure as it may be, application-level encryption won’t be practical for some of the things Mozilla is working on, a few of which will naturally require that more data points about users are collected. This is a big deal to consumers and legislators alike, as issues like user tracking and online privacy receive more attention in the press and the halls of the U.S. Congress.
A Five-Point Plan For Data Security & Privacy
So how will Mozilla secure your data in the future? They’ve proposed a five-point set of guidelines to govern their development moving forward. Data should be collected only when doing so presents an obvious benefit to the user, and the vendor (in this case, Mozilla) should always be aware of what data is being stored, as well as how, where and why.
Mozilla also promises to do its best to minimize how long any given data point is stored on its own servers. If data is not needed for an extended period of time, it shouldn’t be stored for long, if at all. That data should also be invisible to the server whenever possible. “If we can implement a given feature by never sending data to the server, or by using application-level encryption, then we will,” Mozilla said.
Finally, if it’s possible to use anonymized, aggregate data rather than individually identifiable information, Mozilla’s engineering team will strive to do it.
Before SOPA exploded as one of the biggest tech news stories in recent memory, there was a growing amount of focus being put on online privacy and related issues. User data tracking and retention have caught the attention of U.S. legislators, who have demanded answers from Amazon over the user privacy afforded by its Silk browser and expressed concern about online user tracking in general. This level of transparency on Mozilla’s part is probably no coincidence in light of these issues and the microscope they will continue to be placed under in the near future.
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Nov 23rd
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You Should Grab This New Google Plus Sharing Bookmarklet, It is Oh So Easy
Oct 11th
Pinoy-Canadian web developer AJ Batac put together a drop dead simple javascript bookmarklet today that makes it easy to share any webpage you’re visiting in Google Plus, along with a comment. The way it works is that your account publicly +1′s the page, then gives you the option to share it with whatever Circles you choose.
Batac calls it “not beautiful, but simple – and it should work.” Indeed it does, it works very well. It’s evidence too that powerful, fun and useful things can be done in simple ways. Thanks for making this AJ!
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Above: That’s what it looks like when a person looks like their dog, the relationship gets described in a report online and then I push the Share on Google Plus bookmarklet.
Whether Google Plus is the fastest growing social network in history or a fast-cooling over hyped and pointless fad is, for now, a matter of perspective. For those of us who do use the service though, it is often far more engaging than any other alternative. You can find me on Plus here.
I found this via Sarah Vela and it was made by AJ Batac.
You like bookmarklets? Here’s an experimental one that will search for whatever URL you’re on in Topsy’s new Google Plus index – to see what conversations have happened on Google Plus about that URL: Plus Hunt
Disclosure: Google Plus bought my love by including me in its recommended users list, artificially inflating my number of social contacts and changing the way I experience and describe the service. All because I’m so handsome, I presume that’s why they listed me.
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Can AT&T Grab T-Mobile Plus Qualcomm’s 700 MHz Spectrum?
Aug 12th
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Last Monday’s suspension by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission of the 180-day countdown clock for the review of AT&T’s proposed purchase of wireless spectrum from Qualcomm, was another signal that regulators for the current administration may not be as permissive about acquisitions as those for the prior one. Now, as The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday afternoon, AT&T has hired Bank of America to help it consider, and perhaps execute, a sale of certain assets, in hopes of appeasing regulators who continue to look askance at its proposed acquisition of the U.S. assets of T-Mobile.
Qualcomm reached an agreement with AT&T to sell its remaining share of the D block of 700 MHz spectrum in the U.S. last December. In an effort to convince regulators they may be holding up the innovation process, late Monday, Qualcomm issued a statement on behalf of the corporation that made a bold, but unusual, claim: It would only have the resources to build services such as FLO TV using that spectrum, if it could sell that spectrum to AT&T first.
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The statement from Qualcomm VP of Government Affairs Dean Brenner reads:
The FCC should approve the pending AT&T-Qualcomm spectrum sale now because of the clear benefits to the public from the sale that stand on their own and are totally unrelated to the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Approval now will foster the public policies that the FCC correctly deems so vital for the American public. Approval now will re-purpose unused 700 MHz unpaired spectrum for mobile broadband, thereby easing America’s spectrum crunch and helping to meet the FCC’s goal of reallocating 300 MHz for mobile broadband over the next five years. Approval now will also allow Qualcomm to invest in a new, spectrally efficient technology (supplemental downlink) and enable the first worldwide deployment to occur in the U.S., thereby fostering U.S. economic growth and job creation and enhancing U.S. global leadership in wireless technology.
In a letter to AT&T and Qualcomm representatives dated August 8, FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan warned the two companies that the issues surrounding their proposed sale, and those surrounding the T-Mobile acquisition, could overlap:
The Commission’s ongoing review has confirmed that the proposed transactions raise a number of related issues, including, but not limited to, questions regarding AT&T’s aggregation of spectrum throughout the nation, particularly in overlapping areas. As a result, we have concluded that the best way to determine whether either or both of the proposed transactions serve the public interest is to consider them in a coordinated manner at this time, without prejudice to independent treatment at a later date.
The FCC established the 180-day review procedure in an effort to make the regulatory process fit some established, manageable template. That said, the Commission says, it’s under no obligation to itself to complete its review within that timeframe. As the Commission states:
We also remind the public that, although the agency seeks to meet the 180-day benchmark, its statutory obligation to determine that an assignment or transfer serves the public interest takes precedence over the informal timeline. The Commission’s failure to release an order within the 180-day benchmark is not indicative of how it will resolve the issues raised in this proceeding.
Just over two weeks ago, Sen. Al Franken (D – Minn.) wrote each of the FCC commissioners, urging them to reject the proposed T-Mobile acquisition by AT&T for reasons including AT&T’s alleged mismanagement of the spectrum it already does own. Sen. Franken wrote:
AT&T owns more spectrum than any other company, yet AT&T has been plagued with delays in rolling out infrastructure to support spectrum it has been allocated. The quality of the service it provides is consistently ranked last amongst the national carriers, and it continues to use spectrum in an inefficient manner. The question your agencies must consider is not how badly AT&T needs the spectrum, but how effective AT&T would be at making use of that spectrum relative to other carriers. Moreover, I believe the public interest would be far better served if AT&T was required to resolve its spectrum crunch by investing a portion of the $39 billion it plans to spend on this transaction to build out its existing spectrum and to deploy additional technologies to make more efficient use of its current spectrum holdings.
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May 16th
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France Fines Google for Street View WiFi Data Grab
Mar 21st
France has fined Google a record €100,000 (about $142,000 U.S.). This is the first fine leveled against Google after it was discovered last year that Google had collected Wi-Fi data, including e-mails and passwords, from unsecured networks while collecting Street View images for Google Maps.
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How To Grab Gobs Of Attention Through Local Search Engine Results – The Business Insider
Feb 5th
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How To Grab Gobs Of Attention Through Local Search Engine Results
The Business Insider Local search engine optimization can be just as time consuming and competitive as “regular” SEO. The same rules apply — you need to have good content and … HelpALocalBusiness.com Offers Local Internet Marketing Services – We Are Your … |
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Vid.ly = Upload Video, Grab URL, Play on Almost Every Connected Device – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 24th
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Vid.ly = Upload Video, Grab URL, Play on Almost Every Connected Device
ReelSEO Online Video News While the one video -> all formats thing is brilliant, we have other concerns here at ReelSEO, like, video SEO, monetizing the content, getting the content … |
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How To Grab More Rankings With Google’s Branded Search Results
Sep 9th
It’s been 10+ days since Google added ‘domain stacking’ or ‘brand stacking’ to their algorithm. In case you don’t know what brand stacking is: Go to Google. Do a search for ESPN basketball. I see six results from espn.go.com. Use a proxy to search for ‘Trek bikes’, and you’ll see six results from www.trekbikes.com.
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