According to a recent entry on Google’s own European public policy blog, only a small minority of German’s have opted-out of its Street View service: “Out of a total of 8,458,084 households, we received 244,237 opt-outs, which equals 2.89% of households. Two out of three opt-ots [sic] came through our online tool.”
If you are interested in learning more about Street View, or opting out,… More
Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Twitter announced that Twitter has agreed to settle FTC charges that the company failed to take sufficient security measures to protect user privacy settings.
The FTC charges stem from breaches in security that occurred in 2009, when hackers accessed Twitter employee accounts and used administrative controls to access the Twitter accounts of high-profile users,… More