by Cooee on November 13, 2008
Google really did capture those scenes when it sent a car equipped with cameras down Pittsburgh’s Sampsonia Way in May to take photographs for its online maps. But these images and most of the other scenes caught on Sampsonia were staged by artists Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett. The Google feature provides panoramic street-level photographs online so users can get a feel for wherever they might be heading - a virtual reconnaissance mission of sorts.
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by Cooee on November 13, 2008
When a user enters a PIN into the card the display shows a one-time number with which to authenticate each online credit card transaction. With EMUE’s technology, even if all of these details are stolen the hacker is unable to make any online transactions because the security code is different each time.
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by Cooee on November 10, 2008
Google has taken another step in its effort to shed light on the so-called “Dark Web” with an announcement that its engine can now search scanned documents in Adobe Systems’ PDF format.
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by Cooee on November 4, 2008
The report was compiled using data derived from public sources (newspaper articles, blog entries, submissions to government inquiries, privacy policies etc), information provided by present and former company staff, technical analysis and interviews with company representatives.
Interim results are available here in PDF format: Interim Rankings
PI is based in London, and has an office in Washington, D.C. Together with members in 40 countries, PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems and medical privacy, and works with a wide range of NGO’s, academic institutions and inter-governmental organizations.
Campaigning against corporate privacy practices, e.g. Amazon Identifying the problems in technology design, e.g.problems with advertising in Gmail Monitoring and campaigning against the disclosure of data from companies to governments, e.g. EU-US PNR, SWIFT, Telecommunications companies Founding and running the Big Brother Awards, now held annually in over 15 countries, that identify ‘worst corporate invaders’, Campaigning against bad practice in account management, for instance preventing users from deleting accounts, e.g. against Amazon and eBay Ranking countries for their privacy protection and surveillance levels, Building particularly from our work on companies’ practices on customer account management and our expertise developed in the country rankings we are now positioned to develop rankings for companies.
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by Cooee on November 4, 2008
MySpace is turning to third-party tech firm Auditude to deliver the technology through a combination of patented assets: a sophisticated ad-serving platform with a video-fingerprinting system that cross indexes billions of seconds of TV and online footage in seconds. The Auditude technology is similar to a system already being employed by the only site that has more traffic than MySpace: YouTube.
www.reuters.com
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