8 posts and columns on monitoring

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Ex-Staffers File Suit Against FDA for Monitoring Personal Email

in News on January 30 at 12:11 pm PT

A half-dozen former FDA employees have filed suit against the agency, offering evidence it secretly monitored their personal email for two years after they took their concerns about medical-device approvals to Congress. According to the Washington Post, the staffers contend the workplace monitoring was improper because the private activity was legal; the FDA may counter with allegations that confidential information was being disclosed.

House Bill Would Require Cellphone Owners Be Notified of Tracking Software

in Mobile on January 30 at 11:50 am PT

The move follows the uproar last year over software from Carrier IQ that collected various information about cellphone usage.
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Twitter Offers Metered Pricing for Firehose of Tweets

in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT

Gnip, Twitter’s only official data reseller, will give customers access to a keyword-filtered set of all tweets at a cost of 10 cents per thousand tweets.

Twitter Partner Gnip Raises $2M for Social Media Monitoring Data

in Social on November 18, 2010 at 9:32 am PT

Gnip, which helps social media monitoring companies collect data, and yesterday became the first company authorized to resell Twitter data, has raised $2 million in funding.

Gnip Becomes Twitter's First Authorized Data Reseller

in Social on November 17, 2010 at 10:47 am PT

Twitter has given the start-up Gnip permission to sell its data feeds to developers, the two companies announced today. The arrangement fills in the gaps left by Twitter’s Streaming API pricing model, which doesn’t formally address the difference between emerging applications and giants like Microsoft, which is paying $10 million to get full real-time access to the status updates posted by Twitter users (what’s known as the Firehose).

Keep Tabs on Kids’ Social Lives

in The Digital Solution on August 31, 2010 at 2:54 pm PT

Katie reviews AOL SafeSocial, a tool for parents that scans sites where kids are social networking for inappropriate language or friendships.

New Chinese Version of Google SafeSearch Eliminates Google Entirely

in News on June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Google’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, has once again run afoul of the Chinese government, which has a similar goal, but would much prefer that certain information stay inaccessible. And so, on Wednesday evening, Chinese citizens found themselves once again unable to use Google, Gmail, and YouTube as their government condemned Google as a purveyor of porn.