Si vede che Soro gli sta antipatico

Jun 082012
 

«La spinta al suicidio di questo partito non ha limiti». Lo dice Romano Prodi riferendosi alla vicenda delle Authority. Il suo commento appare sul sito web del «Corriere della Sera» ed è riferito «a chi ha avallato queste decisioni» sulle indicazioni dei candidati all’Agcom e al garante per la Privacy.

Me lo sentivo nelle ossa che il Pd sarebbe finito con una divertente lite tra ex democristiani come comica finale.

Ansa

Dimmi quello che ti piace e ti dirò chi sei

May 192011
 

Secondo il Wall Street Journal ogni volta che clicchiamo sul pulsante "like" lasciamo in giro un po' troppi dati.

These so-called social widgets, which appear atop stories on news sites or alongside products on retail sites, notify Facebook and Twitter that a person visited those sites even when users don't click on the buttons, according to a study done for The Wall Street Journal. These widgets are prolific. They have been added to millions of web pages in the past year. Facebook's buttons appear on a third of the world's 1,000 most-visited websites, according to the study. Buttons from Twitter and Google Inc. appear on 20% and 25% of those sites, respectively. The widgets, which were created to make it easy to share content with friends and to help websites attract visitors, are a potentially powerful way to track Internet users. They could link users' browsing habits to their social-networking profile, which often contains their name.

Wall Street Journal

Aspettate un po’ prima di scegliere Android

Apr 222011
 

Secondo il Wall Street Journal – che sta pubblicando una bellissima serie di articoli sulla privacy online – sia Apple che Google raccolgono dati sulla localizzazione dagli smartphone. Servono a costruire database adeguati per il prossimo business: i location-based service.

In the case of Google, according to new research by security analyst Samy Kamkar, an HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique phone identifier. [...] Apple, meanwhile, says it "intermittently" collects location data, including GPS coordinates, of many iPhone users and nearby Wi-Fi networks and transmits that data to itself every 12 hours, according to a letter the company sent to U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) last year.

Wall Street Journal

Nove domande

Apr 212011
 

In tutta 'sta storia del file con le coordinate degli spostamenti – salvate da iPhone, iPad, iPod non si sa perché e senza dirlo ai proprietari – le uniche domande sensate le ha fatte Al Franken, cioè uno dei più improbabili senatori degli Stati Uniti che – a quanto pare – ci battono anche riguardo alla serietà dei beppegrilli. Ora speriamo che  al quartier generale di Apple – una volta smaltita la sbornia per i conti stratosferici dell'ultima trimestrale – qualcuno si prenda la briga di rispondere.

  1. Why does Apple collect and compile this location data? Why did Apple choose to initiate tracking this data in its iOS 4 operating system?
  2. Does Apple collect and compile this location data for laptops?
  3. How is this data generated? (GPS, cell tower triangulation, Wi-Fi triangulation, etc.)
  4. How frequently is a user's location recorded? What triggers the creation of a record of someone's location?
  5. How precise is this location data? Can it track the users location to 50 m, 100 m, etc.?
  6. Why is this data not encrypted? What steps will Apple take to encrypt the data?
  7. Why were Apple consumers never affirmatively informed of the collection and retention of their location data in this manner? Why did Apple not seek affirmative consent before doing so?
  8. Does Apple believe that this conduct is permissible under the terms of its privacy policy?
  9. To whom, if anyone, including Apple, has this data been disclosed? When and why were these disclosures made?

Ars Technica, Financial Times