Title: Onetime Allies in Antitrust Part Ways over Google
Author: Steve Lohr
Date: December 16, 2012
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/technology/onetime-allies-in-antitrust-part-ways-over-google.html?pagewanted=all
Summary: Attorneys that were once on the same side of the anti-trust suit against Microsoft, have differing opinions on Google. Attorney Mr. Reback states that Google is using it's search engine to favor the company's online shopping, travel and local listings, which is stifling competition from Web sites that rely on Google search for traffic.
Relevance: If it's true that google is using it's search engine to keep other websites that offer the same thing for less, it will keep small businesses that rely on internet revenue from competing.
Quote: "Google's conduct is pro-competitive," Ms. Creighton declared in her Senate testimony last year. "Far from threatening competition, Google has consistently enhanced consumer welfare by increasing the services available to consumers."
Monday, December 17, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again
Title: Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again
Author: Nick Bilton
Date: December 12
URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/facebook-changes-privacy-settings-again/?ref=technology
Summary: Facebook is adding a new feature that will give users the ability to block the information they put on their site. It is also giving users the ability to block others; however, it's taking away users ability to hide themselves while they are online.
Relevance: Privacy is always been an issue with Facebook and with the internet as a whole. As technology gets better privacy will become an even bigger issue.
Quote: "The company is eliminating the ability for people to hide themselves on Facebook's search, a control, that until now, has existed in the in the privacy settings on the company's Web site."
Author: Nick Bilton
Date: December 12
URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/facebook-changes-privacy-settings-again/?ref=technology
Summary: Facebook is adding a new feature that will give users the ability to block the information they put on their site. It is also giving users the ability to block others; however, it's taking away users ability to hide themselves while they are online.
Relevance: Privacy is always been an issue with Facebook and with the internet as a whole. As technology gets better privacy will become an even bigger issue.
Quote: "The company is eliminating the ability for people to hide themselves on Facebook's search, a control, that until now, has existed in the in the privacy settings on the company's Web site."
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
comparison #5
Article 1: Austrian Group Plans Court Challenge to Facebook's Privacy Policies
Author: Kevin J. O'Brien
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/technology/austrian-group-plans-court-challenge-to-facebooks-privacy-policies.html?ref=technology&_r=0
Article 2: Student group to go to court over Facebook Privacy Policy
Author: Reuters
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/12/04/student-group-to-go-to-court-over-facebook-privacy-policy/
Article 3: Student group take Facebook privacy gripes to court
Author:
Date: December 4th
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/student-group-plans-sue-facebook-ireland-071853454--sector.html
Articles 1,2 and 3 are both reported on the same day.
Article 2, reported by Foxbusiness is the shortest story on here.
Article 1 goes into how Facebook is collecting and retaining data as well as using facial recognition to to tie in whose data it is.
Article 3 explains how Facebook takes several months to give people the data facebook has collected on them
Article 3 goes on to state that the group believes this will be a landmark case for the data protection law
Author: Kevin J. O'Brien
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/technology/austrian-group-plans-court-challenge-to-facebooks-privacy-policies.html?ref=technology&_r=0
Article 2: Student group to go to court over Facebook Privacy Policy
Author: Reuters
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/12/04/student-group-to-go-to-court-over-facebook-privacy-policy/
Article 3: Student group take Facebook privacy gripes to court
Author:
Date: December 4th
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/student-group-plans-sue-facebook-ireland-071853454--sector.html
Articles 1,2 and 3 are both reported on the same day.
Article 2, reported by Foxbusiness is the shortest story on here.
Article 1 goes into how Facebook is collecting and retaining data as well as using facial recognition to to tie in whose data it is.
Article 3 explains how Facebook takes several months to give people the data facebook has collected on them
Article 3 goes on to state that the group believes this will be a landmark case for the data protection law
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