data collection

Senators Propose Privacy Bill of Rights

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 12, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT

Sens. John Kerry and John McCain proposed legislation Tuesday to create a “privacy bill of rights” to protect people from the increasingly invasive commercial data-collection industry.

Google Street View Cars Collected Wi-Fi User Data for Three Years

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT

Responding to questions about its Street View data collection practices in an April 27 blog post, Google said that it captured only publicly broadcast Wi-Fi network names and their MAC addresses and nothing else–certainly not “payload data,” the personal information being sent over those networks. Well, guess what Google has unwittingly been collecting these past three years?

Google Opens Up on What Its 'Street View' Cars Collect

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 28, 2010 at 12:01 pm PT

By now, Google’s cars have driven down roads around the world — and in some places, they’re sparking concerns about just what information they are collecting. So the Internet-search giant is opening up a bit about the data it compiles. Google is trying to address criticisms that have been leveled against it in European countries in particular and provided details about Street View cars in a post on its European Public Policy Blog on Tuesday.

Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 12, 2010 at 2:35 pm PT

Is Apple, which just launched its own ad network, crippling competitors that want to sell ads on its iPhones and iPads? That’s how some competitors are interpreting a clause in the developer agreement Apple released last week.

IBM to SAS: From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee

John Paczkowski in News on July 28, 2009 at 8:44 am PT

According to IDC, the worldwide market for business analytics software will swell to $25 billion this year. Little wonder, then, that IBM is beefing up its presence in that sector with the $1.2 billion acquisition of data analysis software maker SPSS. Business analytics powerhouse SAS best watch its back.