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Tracking Web Fingerprints

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has discovered a new way for Web hosts to track user’s movements around the Internet without using cookies or IP addresses. Each web page request that arrives at a server contains detailed information about the user’s computer such as browser type and version, and the plugins that are installed. That information [...]

Posted 31 January 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Internet § Social Issues § privacy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Google Takes On China

Google shocked the world this week by announcing that it would rather shut down its China operations than comply with China’s censorship laws. The announcement was applauded by human rights organizations around the world, with bouquets of flowers being laid across Google’s sign at the entrance to its large Beijing headquarters. Meanwhile Google investors are [...]

Posted 17 January 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Industry News § Info Security § Social Issues § global ‡ Comments (0) °

Don't be evil?

Google, the company with the motto “Don’t be evil,” has apparently flip-flopped its view on behavioral advertising. Just last year Google said it had no plans to engage in behavioral advertising and admonished companies that did. Now Google has announced a new service it calls “Internet-based” advertising. Internet-based avoids the controversial term behavioral, but is [...]

Posted 15 March 2009 † Ken Baldauf § Social Issues ‡ Comments (0) °