By Ryan Singel
Internet ad networks have been following you around the net, watching what you do to serve you targeted ads. But now federal regulators are starting to follow them around, trying to figure out whether they are playing fair with U.S. consumers.
Foremost among those networks is Google.
Most people think of Google as a search [...]
It’s time to update an old idea: The Technology Bill of Rights — new rights for a new era
By Paul Venezia
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A few hundred years ago, the world was a vastly different place by just about any measure. In fact, it was 220 years ago this year that the Bill of Rights was first introduced in [...]
By C.G. Lynch
As social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn strive to formulate sustainable business models built upon advertising or the selling of premium services, the biggest hurdle they face might rest within their users’ increased awareness of online privacy.
The common assumption that social networking users don’t care about privacy is misguided. The majority of people [...]
By STEVE LOHR
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Now that the federal government plans to spend $19 billion to spur the use of computerized patient records, the challenge of adopting the technology widely and wisely is becoming increasingly apparent.
Two articles, to be published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the formidable obstacles to achieving the policy [...]
By Carlo Longino
Google’s new Latitude service, which lets people share their location via Google Maps, launched to a lot of coverage last month. There have been plenty of similar services around for a long time, but Latitude got the PR boost the Google brand provides, making it a lot more noticeable than earlier efforts, [...]
By Steve Lohr
Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America’s doctors practice medicine.
Wal-Mart’s move comes as the Obama administration is trying to jumpstart the adoption of digital medical records with $19 billion of incentives in [...]