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On PRISM, the Cloud and Granularity

June 17, 2013

Business

cloud computing, MegaUpload, Microsoft, Patriot Act, PRISM, privacy, Richard Stallman, United States

Since news of the US data interception program, PRISM, hit the world, there has been the expected firestorm of comments suggesting that this would be the death-knell of the cloud. It’s something of a tradition that whenever anything even…

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On Terms of Service, and a Global Code

September 27, 2012

Business

Creative Commons, privacy, Privacy Policies, Privacy policy, security, terms of service, TwitPic, twitter

A little while ago Klint Finley wrote a post in which he profiled TOS;DR a site that aims to give end users visibility over the terms of service for different application. TOS;DR aims to, in their own words; [create]…

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Privacy In A Connected And Cloudy World

July 19, 2012

Business

cloudcomputing, New Zealand, privacy

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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I won’t be using Chrome.

September 5, 2008

Business

Ben Kepes, Chrome, google, privacy, Read Write Web, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server. Second, and most importantly to me I’m not…

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Can you really trust a bootstrapped startup?

June 18, 2008

Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Web x.0

privacy, security

RWW reports that online storage company DivShare, has had a security breach. Apparently a malicious user accessed their database which included user e-mail addresses and other profile information. They also say that no financial information has been accessed by…

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Good tool for those suspicious of Facebook

April 21, 2008

IT, New business, Society, Web x.0

privacy

I got a press release the other day which will be great for those who have concerns about their privacy (especially coming after the Facebook Beacon fiasco). My Data is My Data aims to; help counteract the collection and…

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On PRISM, the Cloud and Granularity

On Terms of Service, and a Global Code

Privacy In A Connected And Cloudy World

I won’t be using Chrome.

Can you really trust a bootstrapped startup?

Good tool for those suspicious of Facebook