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Should We Be Worried About Google’s New Privacy Policy?

February 3, 2012Erik Kain

makes a smart point about the search giant’s new privacy policy: What’s changing is not ’s privacy policies but its practices. By combining information from across all of its services, will be able to better target users with ads, offer more innovative features, and, importantly for , better compete with Facebook. Fellow Forbes writer says […]

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byline=E.D. Kain, Facebook, Forbes, Google, Google Reader, Kashmir, privacy, Privacy policy, Social Media, Tech, YouTube

Reddit Makes Headlines Boycotting GoDaddy Over Online Censorship Bills

December 26, 2011Erik Kain

Two bills are snaking their way through congress at the moment in an attempt by the entertainment industry to clamp down on online file-sharing and piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two. Its counterpart in the Senate is PIPA (or the Protect IP Act.) […]

Read more at Forbes.

byline=E.D. Kain, censorship, CrunchBase, Go Daddy, GoDaddy, Internet Protocol, Jimmy Wales, privacy, Protect IP Act, Reddit, Security, Social Media, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Tech, Wikipedia

Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance?

December 13, 2011Erik Kain

Remember that software installed on 140 million smartphones that tracks every keystroke you make? Smartphone users were told that Carrier IQ was only being used for diagnostic information but what exactly does this mean? And if it’s only being used for diagnostic information, why is the FBI denying a FOIA request for records of how […]

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byline=E.D. Kain, Carrier IQ, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Law enforcement agency, Mobile, privacy, Records management, Smartphone, Tech

How Congress and the Entertainment Industry Plan to Kill the Internet and How Citizens, Reddit Users, and a Few Senators Are Fighting Back

November 28, 2011Erik Kain

Two bills aim to lock down the internet with a host of new government censorship powers. Two bills are moving through the Senate and the House at the moment, aimed at creating a host of new controls and regulations over the internet, and threatening to change the way everybody does business and interacts online. SOPA, […]

Read more at Forbes.

byline=E.D. Kain, censorship, cyber wars, Daily Kos, Darknet, Innovation & Science, Internet Protocol, Patrick Leahy, PIPA, privacy, Protect IP, Rand Paul, Reddit, Ron Wyden, Security, Senate, Social Media, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Tech, United States Senate

Techonomy: Security in an Age of Socialnomics

November 15, 2011Erik Kain

If most of the Techonomy experience can be defined by its optimism and exuberance over the role of technology and social media in the future, Monday afternoon’s security round-table was its antithesis. Forbes editor Bruce Upbin moderated a panel including Bret Hartman of RSA, Mohd Noor Amin of IMPACT and Jody Westby of Global Cyber […]

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Bret Hartman, byline=E.D. Kain, Computer security, Cyber Terrorism, Cyberwarfare, Forbes, hackers, Hamadoun Touré, Jody Westby, Mohd Noor Amin, privacy, RSA, Security, Social Media, Tech, Techonomy, Twitter, United States

Liberals Need to Take Obama’s Civil Liberties Record Seriously

November 8, 2011Erik Kain

Liberals defend Obama on his political victories at home and abroad, but they should focus more on his Bush-era national security policies and other broken promises. In 2008, during the aftershocks of the housing market and financial collapse and the fall of Lehman Brothers, and amidst the  increasingly frightening din of anti-Obama sentiment that was […]

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