Another day… another data-breech…
(Source) Tech Crunch: http://goo.gl/DNwz3
Is the firm able to live up to the market’s (aside from their own) hype?
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/ZcqIr
Google’s Glass (still yet to become widely available) continued to raise concern regarding privacy issues (as evidenced by an Open Letter to the firm from various global data authorities). In light of the on-going NSA surveillance news, this should really come as no surprise.
(Source) PC World: http://goo.gl/sWqDy
At least one major Technology firm is pushing back although they’ve also been largely compliant in assisting government(s) with eavesdropping on countless people… will it matter?
The Guardian UK: http://goo.gl/Qr8PP
Think your data (and/or your ‘privacy’) is safe? Think again.
(Source) NY Times: http://goo.gl/J335C
In light of the on-going lunacy (that is America’s shocking decline / compliance with ever-decreasing Civil Liberties) revisiting Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech is befitting (especially in celebration of Father’s Day).
C-Span: http://goo.gl/64X7Q
Google’s prototyping of using balloons to beam ‘net access to remote areas demonstrates at least one consistent theme (of the company): that they are not going to wait for governmental intervention to solve an issue that they could do so otherwise (which is positive dependent upon how ‘free-enterprise’ is viewed).
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/dPmNX
Delivering vaccines via a patch versus a needle (which is 160-year old technology) could be the bane of preventible diseases the world-over (if nano patch technology proves both commercially viable and gains wide-acceptance / application).
(Source) Vaxxas: http://goo.gl/bHyDc
In the aftermath of the biggest scandal to break (arguably under the Obama Administration) one obvious question that arises is: how trustworthy are any of the companies / officials involved?
(Source) CNET: http://goo.gl/afoAY
