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The Telecom Digest for June 29, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 157 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
The Value of Privacy (Monty Solomon)
An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone (Monty Solomon)
Campaigns to Track Voters with "Political Cookies" (Monty Solomon)
What Facebook Knows (Monty Solomon)
Mobile Computing in Question (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:11:29 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Value of Privacy
Message-ID: <p06240852cc10a7f1948b@[10.0.1.6]>

The Value of Privacy

Technology Review
June 2012

Internet advertising is the global $70 billion business that powers 
services like Google and Facebook. This business is built on data 
about you, and ads that track and target your behavior online are its 
technological cutting edge. But has tracking gone too far? Web 
innovations are coming under attack as regulators, courts, and even 
some competitors push for more consumer control. In this report we 
look at the business models, beliefs, and technologies that are 
determining the value of privacy.

...

http://www.technologyreview.com/businessreport/the-value-of-privacy/




Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:11:29 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone
Message-ID: <p06240854cc10ab6864f7@[10.0.1.6]>

An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone
A cryptography pioneer offers a simple way to fight electronic surveillance.

Tom Simonite
Technology Review
June 27, 2012

Anytime you use your phone to make a call or send an e-mail or text
message, there's a chance it will be intercepted by someone who has
access - legal or otherwise - to your providers' servers. A new app
called Silent Circle tries to change that by encrypting calls,
e-mails, and texts. It's aimed at activists, companies, and
individuals who fear they're being spied on.

...

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428344/an-app-keeps-spies-away-from-your-iphone/




Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:11:29 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Campaigns to Track Voters with "Political Cookies"
Message-ID: <p06240853cc10a835a47f@[10.0.1.6]>

Campaigns to Track Voters with "Political Cookies"
Candidates match voter records with sophisticated online tracking to 
target their ads. Are they going too far?

Jessica Leber
Technology Review
June 27, 2012

Many of the advertisements people see online today are customized. 
Using so-called browser cookies, advertisers can track a given Web 
surfers' habits and serve them relevant ads.

This election year, a related type of targeted ads-one relying on 
"political cookies"-is coming into widespread use.

The technology involves matching a person's Web identity with 
information gathered about that person offline, including his or her 
party registration, voting history, charitable donations, address, 
age, and even hobbies.

...

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428347/campaigns-to-track-voters-with-political-cookies/




Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:11:29 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: What Facebook Knows
Message-ID: <p06240857cc10af895c9a@[10.0.1.6]>

What Facebook Knows

The company's social scientists are hunting for insights about human 
behavior. What they find could give Facebook new ways to cash in on 
our data-and remake our view of society.

Tom Simonite
Technology Review
July/August 2012

If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg 
has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the 
third largest in the world.

It would far outstrip any regime past or present in how intimately it 
records the lives of its citizens. Private conversations, family 
photos, and records of road trips, births, marriages, and deaths all 
stream into the company's servers and lodge there. Facebook has 
collected the most extensive data set ever assembled on human social 
behavior. Some of your personal information is probably part of it.

And yet, even as Facebook has embedded itself into modern life, it
hasn't actually done that much with what it knows about us. Now that
the company has gone public, the pressure to develop new sources of
profit is likely to force it to do more with its hoard of
information. That stash of data looms like an oversize shadow over
what today is a modest online advertising business, worrying
privacy-conscious Web users and rivals such as Google. Everyone has a
feeling that this unprecedented resource will yield something big, but
nobody knows quite what.

...

http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/428150/what-facebook-knows/




Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:11:29 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Mobile Computing in Question
Message-ID: <p06240855cc10abbc7892@[10.0.1.6]>

Mobile Computing in Question

Technology Review
May 2012

Mobile devices outsold PCs last year for the first time, and top 
smart-phone apps are reaching the kind of audiences it used to take 
technologies decades to reach. Mobile computing has arrived. The 
question now: what comes next? In this issue of Business Impact, we 
look at major technology and business questions facing mobile 
computing as it reaches for global ubiquity. From the bandwidth 
crunch to the app-vs.-Web debate, businesses can profit as much from 
understanding the limits of mobile computing as from its rapid spread.

...

http://www.technologyreview.com/businessreport/mobile-computing-in-question/






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