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Op-ed—A plea to Google: Protect our e-mail privacy | Ars Technica
Somewhat good article, but it does not go far enough, IMO, and these are only recommendations by them. Who knows whether it will result in enough action by Google and others, given their vested interests. As for Twitter, they only recently started supporting HTTPS/SSL (in the last year or two, IIRC).
What we’ll see in 2013 in mobile | Mobile Technology News
Found the article interesting.
Predictions are just predictions, of course, but there seems to be some research behind their content in this post.
Some points of interest from it:
- WiFi roaming without user intervention
- More wireless radiation and greater invasion of privacy are concerns.
See this and my 2 later related tweets.
Reality rules (or should, anyway).
Ironically, I am blogging this via the *Blogger app on an *Android phone, both from Google.
Interesting to see if they censor it.
- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com
DuckDuckGo (*) is a general purpose search engine like Google and Yahoo! search, created by Gabriel Weinberg, who had earlier sold another startup of his (as per a BusinessInsider.com article that I read).
(*) Yes, I know, the name DuckDuckGo is odd. But don't let that deter you from checking it out. The service may have benefits. I also was not too interested in it for a while, though I knew about it from a while ago, and that was partly due to the name.
But recently, I got more interested it it, due to seeing it crawl my web site http://www.dancingbison.com a few times over the last few weeks (as shown by Google Analytics), and then deciding to check it out some more on a whim, and then seeing some interesting stuff about it, namely, that it seems to put more emphasis on privacy (and hence security) than the major search engines like Google. Also, I like the relatively clean, uncluttered user interface of DuckDuckGo.
I also found that there were a handful of positive reviews of DuckDuckGo in well-known publications.
So check it out if you like: http://duckduckgo.com
And maybe, use DuckDuckGo itself to search for more links about it, including the reviews I mentioned above, etc. That may be an interesting test of it, so I leave it as an exercise for the reader (as textbooks are prone to say :-)
- Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com
