The Inside Source is eBay's latest announcement. The searching, buying, and selling habits of its 88 million active users have added up to an enormous dataset, one that could have easily been hoarded and sold to marketers, brands, and others with a vested interest in online retail and trends.Although eBay...
Last week YouTube blogged that it is considering moving away from the familiar 5-star system of reviews. According to YouTube product manager Shiva Rajaraman, the stars system is being used bluntly by the majority of YouTube users - most give videos a perfect 5 star rating. Rajaraman noted that "when...
After a period of dramatic tension, social networking giant Facebook has joined forces with the OpenID community working for a distributed system of standards-based, non-proprietary user identity. It's a move we think bodes well for the web and yesterday the first big collaborative event was held since the union was...
UPDATE: Nikki Richardson, VP Corporate Communications at Monster Worldwide has replied to our e-mail saying that the company is in the process of contacting users but can not disclose specific details of the breach right now. If you're interested in reading the entire communication, please scroll down to the end...
MySpace is announcing this morning that it will become an OpenID authenticating party and offer developers a deeper level of access to user data than was previously available. As Facebook prepares to mark the one year anniversary of its heralded application platform and the new iPhone App Store lures developers...
In the ongoing copyright litigation between Google and Viacom, a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered Google (PDF) to hand over data on every YouTube user, including username, the associated IP address, and a list of all the the videos...
Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It's only going to get louder though, just as discussions about other forms of economics will never be resolved.That's a part of what's going on,...
The times are changing, Microsoft is losing and Google has won as computing moves to the web - right? That's not necessarily the case. In fact, Microsoft has a clear opportunity to come from behind online and dominate the future, albeit in a radically different way than they dominated the...
ReadBurner is an interesting new project that displays the hottest URLs at any given time according to the Google Reader "shared items" feeds users have submitted for tracking. It's a relatively simple concept but it just makes sense and the possibilities for the future are exciting to consider. One way...
Mozilla today announced Weave, a new web platform that will store users' browser metadata in a cloud environment for access anywhere. Weave is a "framework for services integration" that will, according to Mozilla, "focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and...
Apple's security restrictions for the Vision Pro are creating roadblocks for app developers but future users will be glad to see the privacy protections in place. Vision Pro launched only in the United States With back in February, with China and several other countries expected later this year. So it's no...
Microsoft has stepped up its planned service offering with the option to store all personal data of cloud customers in the European Union. This move represents the latest step in the US technology giant's scheduled rollout, branded as "EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud". After updates to privacy and...
Google Maps announced changes to its Location History feature to allow data to be saved directly to a user’s device or via cloud storage rather than on Google servers. Via the company's The Keyword blog, Google said changes to user location data saying “We’re introducing new updates to give you...
Genetic testing company 23andMe disclosed late Saturday that its recent data breach impacted significantly more customers than previously reported, according to a recent TechCrunch report. Originally stating that the breach compromised the personal data of only 14,000 individuals, 23andMe has now confirmed that nearly 7 million customers were impacted. In...
DNA testing company 23andMe is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. A hacker has leaked millions of 23andMe user records on a cybercrime forum. TechCrunch reporting indicates it is the same hacker, aka Golem, who began selling 23andMe user data earlier this month. Golem claims the new...
It is probably obvious to most people that certain personal information should be tightly protected -- especially bank details, health records, and passwords. The motivation might be to protect us from criminal activity, embarrassment, or just because it is not anyone else’s business. Users should care about data privacy --...
If it’s true that “IoT is the senses and big data is the fuel” of a smart connected world, then what’s the role of big data and IoT in today’s ever-evolving e-commerce industry? First of all, IoT is about the deployment of smart devices that use data and connectivity....
Digital data thefts are on the rise and sports apparel merchant Under Armour has become the latest victim of the crime. The Baltimore (USA) based company has disclosed that there was a massive data breach into its food and nutrition app and website, MyFitnessPal, system earlier this year. An unauthorized party gained access...
Twitter is not content with the transparency agreement tech companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft have reached with the U.S. government. The new agreement requires companies to report the number of national security requests they've received in bands of 250 or 1,000—including, but not discerning between, FISA requests and national security letters. Twitter...
Earlier this week, the hacker group Gibson Security published what it claimed was Snapchat's API, and revealed two security exploits that could allow hackers to scrape phone number and personal data from Snapchat. Turns out, it appears to be accurate.See also: Snapchat Flaws Allegedly Expose Phone Number, Account InformationSnapchat confirmed that...
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