Why are market forces so weak in protecting users’ online privacy? The main reason is that the online marketplace is economically structured around users being a commodity, data, to be aggregated and mined, not customers to be served and protected in a competitive marketplace. That’s...
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Cybersecurity
Twitter’s Realpolitik & The Sovereign-ization of the Internet
Reports that “Twitter Can Censor by Country” is a perfect example of how the world is changing the Internet. Change is a two-way street. Conventional wisdom that only assumes the Internet is changing the world risks being blind-sided by the Internet’s underappreciated exa-trend: how the...
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Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
Since most people focus on how the Internet is changing the world, few focus on the reverse — how much the world is changing the Internet. See My Forbes Tech Capitalist blog post to learn the “Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet.” ...
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Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
The kerfuffle that paints the Google Wallet App as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles. To see what...
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Grand Theft Auto-mated! Online Ad-Economics Fuel Piracy & SOPA Opposition
The likely passage of online anti-piracy legislation (SOPA/PIPA) in 2012 has put a spotlight on the substantial ad-based business interests aligned with piracy and against piracy enforcement. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why Grand Theft Auto-mated is such big business and so...
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The Next Leg of Wireless Growth?
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post “The Next Leg of Wireless Growth? here....
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Google’s Rogue WiSpy Invasive Behavior Proliferates — Security is Google’s Achilles Heel — Part XIII
Evidence continues to mount that Google’s management and supervision of its Android operating system is out-of-control when it comes to protecting privacy and security. Google’s corporate ethos that it is better to “ask for forgiveness than permission” increasingly means Android has no privacy by design...
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Top 10 Reasons Google Has Culpability in Gmail Security Breach — Security is Google Achilles Heel Part XII
Google’s deep aversion to accountability was in full view in its blog response to the latest gmail security breach, in which Google placed most all of the blame on users and others, while largely trying to absolve Google of its responsibility and accountability in the...
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Announcing My New Book: Search & Destroy Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc.
I’ve long thought there was a big untold story about Google, essentially a book all about Google, but told from a user’s perspective, rather than the well-worn path of Google books told largely from Google’s own paternal perspective. (You can buy the book, Search &...
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Google’s Deep Aversion to Permission — “Security is Google’s Achilles Heel” — Part XI
Google’s deep aversion to securing the permission of others before doing something that affects them is central to Google’s famed “innovation without permission” ethos. Sadly, it is also the wellspring of Google’s infamous privacy and security problems. Where does Google’s deep aversion to permission come...
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