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Congress Gives Commercial Drones Takeoff Clearance for 2015

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on February 7, 2012

The U.S. Senate today approved the reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Besides obviously making sure that the FAA has the necessary money to operate, the bill also includes a provision that requires the FAA to open U.S. airspace to unmanned commercial drone flights by September 2015 and to offer a plan for…

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Google Fights Back Against Microsoft’s “Putting People First” Ad Campaign

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on February 1, 2012

Earlier this morning, Microsoft announced a new campaign that would highlight how Microsoft was a better option for disgruntled Google users looking for a place that would provide them with better privacy controls. Now, Google is fighting back. On its Public Policy Blog, the company just posted a number of attempts to rebut Microsoft's arguments…

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Reviews

MelonCard Helps You Reclaim Your Online Privacy

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on October 31, 2011

Guarding your privacy online is becoming increasingly hard, even for those of us who really want to keep our private information to ourselves. All across the net, information brokers have set up shop and will happily sell whatever private information they were able to gather about you to the highest bidder. This includes both marketing…

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Khula Project Wants to Make Privacy Policies Readable

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on September 29, 2011

Privacy policies and terms of service policies are generally so long and full of legal jargon that few users ever bother to read them. There are, of course, some notable exception to this and even Facebook, which regularly finds itself in the privacy spotlight, is making stride to improve how it communicates its policies. The…

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Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on August 19, 2011

German websites have until the end of September to remove Facebook’s ‘like’ button or face a fine of up to 50,000 Euro.

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Infographics

Afraid the Government is Spying on You Online? You're Not Alone [Infographic]

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on January 28, 2011

Today is Data Privacy Day and the good folks at Opera used this as a chance to commission a survey of 1,000 web uers each in the U.S., Japan and Russia and ask them about how worried they are about online privacy.

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