Internet Privacy Gets White House Attention

President Obama to announce new regulations to control online use of personal privacy

President Barack Obama (White House photo)

The White House will announce today new sweeping regulations and seek Congressional approval of statutory authorities over the online privacy of consumers.
A paper was issued today signaling the President’s intentions entitled Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in a Global Digital Economy.

The recent scandals among computer giants like Apple, Google and Facebook have the concern of the President and he intends to move both to carry out new regulations with the Department of Commerce and propose new laws in Congress. Continue reading

Microsoft Windows 8 will link users to The Cloud more easily than Apple iCloud

Microsoft SkyDrive provides more almost seamless Cloud storage and streaming on Windows 8, medium and large organization official use is unpredictable

Everything is The Cloud these days and Microsoft will up the ante in being your Cloud provider with Windows 8 SkyDrive integration.  Whether or not IT departments sanction SkyDrive is unclear. However with MS Office integration straight out of the box, SkyDrive will quickly spread among users both in business and for personal use.  Continue reading

DNT+ take back user online privacy

Free IE and Firefox plugin blocks advertising tracking sites

By Stephen Pate – DNT+, short for Do Not Track, is free browser plugin that stops advertising and online behavioral sites from tracking a users every move on the web.

The software is from Abine The Online Privacy Company. Users or organizations can download it free. There are browser specific versions. DNT+ downloads the plugin for each. Visit the site with each browser and a browser specific version is downloaded and installed.
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