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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT |
| Microsoft LYNCH :) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
MasterCard is packaging its transaction data — your transaction data
— and selling it to advertisers. The story was based on an apparently
confidential pitch MasterCard made to potential clients. Not too confidential,
because we found a copy by googling it.
In
the presentation, “Leveraging MasterCard Data Insights to Reach Holiday
Shoppers,” MasterCard senior vice president Susan Grossman describes the many
ways the company can mine the 34 billion transactions made using MasterCards
every year for data that advertisers can use to target specific
audiences.
When a consumer swipes a credit card in a store, she says
MasterCard’s data-packaging division receives information about the date, time,
amount and merchant. By aggregating that data and comparing it to its deep well
of historical data on spending patterns, Grossman says MasterCard can then
divide up consumers into millions of audience “segments.”
Marcus Wohlsen, WIRED
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Verizon Selling Customer
Data
In a move that has ignited questions of privacy, Verizon Wireless
has commenced the selling of information regarding geographical locations of its
customers, application usage and Web browsing activities. These sales could also
brush up against federal wiretapping law. Additionally, the carrier began in
October to offer reports to marketers that indicate what Verizon subscribers are
doing on their phones and other mobile devices, among which include what iOS and
Android applications are in use in which locations.
The company says it
might connect the data to third-party databases with information regarding the
gender, age, and even details about its customers like “sports enthusiast,
frequent diner or pet owner.” Bill Diggins, domestic chief for the Verizon
Wireless marketing initiative, has informed an industry conference earlier in
2012 that, “We’re able to view just everything that they do. And that’s really
where data is going today. Data is the new oil.”
Mark Lawson, Wall St. Cheat
Sheet
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And finally: a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 05:40 PM EDT |
And the Firewalls Came
Tumbling Down NYT
Meet
The 'Spiritual Godfather Of Online Leaking' Forbes
The WikiLeaks Spinoff That Wasn’t Wired
The WikiLeaks Copycat That Worked
Salon
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 02:59 AM EDT |
| Says it all and then
some. Why FOSS is good and why some machines should never see the internet ...
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- you realize - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 08:15 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:16 AM EDT |
Not sure whether this is really sinister, but I'm having an impossible job
trying to train Gmail not to put my Amazon emails in the spam folder.
It started a couple of months ago and even though I find them and mark them as
"not spam", even forwarding them to Google's support team a couple of
times (you know - the button that says something like "Do you want to help
us improve the service by telling us about this one?"), it just won't stop
happening.
Several times it's been my order confirmations and delivery notifications that
have got canned - not just the unsolicited "recommendations" which I
admit I always delete after a cursory glance.
Now, why has this started just recently, and is it sinister?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:24 AM EDT |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750
"He also ordered Apple to run adverts saying that Samsung had not copied
it."
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| Authored by: jmc on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:29 AM EDT |
On Aunite link.
Full text
will probably come up here soon too
link or here
link.
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| Authored by: qrider70 on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
Is it possible to set the Newspicks on the main page to go to another
window/tab automatically? I usually do it myself by right clicking and selecting
open in a new tab, but it would save a step if the link would be set that way. I
would suspect we would normally want to keep the Groklaw page open anyway,
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
Maybe it's just me, but I've been seeing Groklaw disappear frequently today.
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