10 posts and columns on Al Franken

Carrier IQ: How to Hack Back Your Phone

in Mobile on December 2, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Worried about smartphone software that tracks your keystrokes? Here’s what to do.
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Google’s Schmidt at Senate Antitrust Hearing: Eric “Gets It!”

in News on September 21, 2011 at 11:03 am PT

Google faces the antitrust music in Washington, D.C.
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Weekend Update: Franken Also Against AT&T/T-Mobile Deal

in Mobile on July 26, 2011 at 4:08 pm PT

Following on the heels of objections from Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, fellow Democratic Sen. Al Franken said that he, too, opposes the planned $39 billion acquisition.
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Lawmakers Seek Limits on Location Data Use

in News on June 16, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Looks like Wednesday was location privacy day on Capitol Hill. Two bills introduced in the House and Senate would limit how the government and private companies can use information about your location, the latest signs of growing concern among lawmakers.

Welcome to What I Like to Call the Al Franken Mobile Privacy Decade

in Mobile on May 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm PT

Following up on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing held earlier this month, Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) fired off a letter to Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Larry Page asking them again to require a privacy policy for their mobile apps.
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Congress Is Officially Paying Attention to the Epsilon Breach

in Enterprise on April 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm PT

Have no fear, you consumers worried about the Epsilon data breach. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, and other members of Congress, are on the case.

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Facebook: The Privacy Questions Continue

in News on April 27, 2010 at 11:24 am PT

The argument over privacy on Facebook continued Tuesday as four senators sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to roll back some of the features it announced last week.

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Franken Out-Wonks New Colleagues on Net-Neutrality Question

in News on July 16, 2009 at 11:44 am PT

The junior Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, asked a decidedly unfunny question Wednesday afternoon when it was his turn to quiz Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor. Franken turned to the contentious issue of net neutrality, or rules that would require cable and phone companies to treat legal Internet traffic equally and would prevent the creation of a two-tiered system that would allow speedier deliver of premium services.

Web 3.0: The Salesforce.com Web

in News on May 8, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

If the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 are “groundbreaking” Facebook widgets, easy access to dumb capital and haughty start-ups dangerously over-leveraged on other companies’ assets what (or who) will define the Web 3.0 epoch? The answer’s obvious isn’t it? Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Why? Because he says so, that’s why. Speaking at the company’s DreamForce [...]