See the full article for more Viacom implications.
And while we’re on the topic of who gets to know what about your life, we should note a suit filed this week by the EFF and the ACLU seeking to force the Justice Department to turn over details of its tracking of mobile phones, especially when done without a warrant. “The information now in the public domain suggests that [the DOJ] m ...
Interestingly, Google has rejected demands by privacy groups for more stringent protections for I.P. address records, saying that in most cases the addresses cannot be used to identify users. Yet Google argued that YouTube viewing data should be kept from Viacom, in part, to protect the privacy of its users. Judge Louis L. Stanton of the Southern Dist ...
Viacom, owner of Comedy Central and MTV Networks, wants the information to find out if YouTube viewers watch more copyrighted shows such as "South Park" and "The Colbert Report" than other videos in an effort to strengthen its $1 billion lawsuit against Google. "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history," Cath ...
Timely snapshot of VMWare modus operandi; read the full article for more context-setting and projections
No wonder that the culture of VMware, which now employs over 6,000 people, is often described as open and collegiate. Where Ms Greene differs from the old school of high-tech bosses is how she sees the interplay between competition and co-operation. “I grew up playing Monopo ...
We all cherish our privacy. Then we go and divulge everything about ourselves on Facebook, sprinkle our Social Security number like pixie dust across the Web and happily load up on tracking devices like GPS navigators and cellphones.
Researchers call this the privacy paradox: normally sane people have inconsistent and contradictory impulses an ...