Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
More (Limited) Peeks into Google Health
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Google has provided some more information about their beta eHealth product, including this claim regarding privacy and security:
Privacy and Security - Due to the sensitive and personal nature of the data that will be stored in Google Health, we need to conduct our health service with the same privacy, security, and integrity users have […]
More Designing for Privacy: Microsoft HealthVault
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Similar to my recent probes and interactions with the designers of the social networking site Moli, I recently enjoyed the opportunity to discuss privacy-related design issues with the product manager for Microsoft’s HealthVault platform.
HealthVault is Microsoft’s attempt to provide an online platform where personal electronic health records can be stored, managed, and shared with various […]
Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Friday, February 1st, 2008Breaking news that could shake up the search industry, as well as having broader implications for concentration of user data (if we can convince the FTC of the connections between antitrust and privacy wrt online businesses rely on user data for their products and services):
Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Microsoft said Friday that it […]
CNet: How Search Engines Rate on Privacy
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I’m under deadline pressure currently, so very quickly:
Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills at CNet have surveyed the major search engine providers about their privacy practices related to retention of user data and behavioral targeting. Full story here, and the search engines’ actual replies here.
Excellent summary, but much remains unknown…
Web-search privacy efforts move to forefront
Monday, July 23rd, 2007The title of this post is the headline from a story in today’s Wall Street Journal (non-firewall version here), detailing how the largest web search engines are starting to make changes to how they handle the data collected from their users — and how some are approaching it as a competitive advantage to try to […]
Microsoft Seeks to Use Application and Hard Drive Data to Sell Ads
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Taking contextual advertising to the next logical level, it has been reported that a recent patent filing indicates Microsoft want to develop an advertising framework that uses applications and data on one’s computer, rather than one’s actions on the Web, to provide context for triggering ads. Imagine writing a letter in Word and having the […]
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