by Robin Wilton | March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Amidst all the Google/FTC reaction, my Twitter board lit up today with some fascinating traffic from online privacy advocates in Pakistan about their National Database and Registration Authority. It seems NADRA launched a service in 2009 which, thanks to an agreement with three mobile network operators in the country, makes it possible for any citizen [...]
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by Robin Wilton | March 31, 2011 | Comments Off
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced (March 30th) the details of a settlement order with Google over alleged privacy violations arising from the launch of the Buzz service. I wasn’t actually a Gartner analyst when Buzz was launched, but by a strange co-incidence I was attending a European conference on Trust in the [...]
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by Robin Wilton | March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
You have probably seen those TV advertisements in which the alleged problem of “household odours” can apparently be dealt with by means of a simple spray, or a plug-in dispenser of dubious perfume – rather than anything time-consuming and inconvenient like laundering or better personal hygiene… Nevertheless, there’s obviously a market for those products, even [...]
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