Strategic Forecasting Inc., Stratfor, which is a US based security think tank that counts branches of the US military among its client list was hacked, and unlike many companies that have been in their position before, Stratfor admits that they got jacked up really bad. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the attack. By [...]
SEOs Could be Affected by Court of Justice Ruling
December 2nd, 2011SEOs took notice of a ruling handed down by the European Court of Justice which ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot be required as a matter of law to install filtering systems whose purpose is to block the downloading of illegal content. The court found that such a system would be in violation the [...]
Google Faces More Privacy Challenges
May 7th, 2011Apple isn’t the only one answering to the judge over privacy invasion issues – now it’s Google’s turn. In the same manner Apple faces lawsuits over privacy invasion about as often as they eat breakfast, Google is now facing a $50 million class action lawsuit over tracking the movements of Android phone users. Whether or [...]
Google Privacy Measures
October 24th, 2010Google’s updating their privacy standards in a big way after the huge debacle over Street View vehicles in Germany picking up WiFi transmissions earlier this year. According to the Official Google Blog post back in May: “In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories [...]
The Google War on Censorship
September 22nd, 2010According to CY Talk, “The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests.” This is a partial look at Google’s new Transparency Report. According to BBC News, “Earlier this year, Google released details about [...]
