Who needs Carnivore says FBI when we have Twitter and Facebook

People probably won't remember this but back during the 1990's there was a big uproar amongst security folks about a major intel gather project that the FBI was investing a lot of money and energy into called ... continue

We Could Store 100 Times More Data With ‘Magnetic Memory’ Says IBM Scientists

Data storage is always a topic of conversation when it comes to computers, laptops, tablets, and especially servers. IBM scientists are looking at a new experimental storage technique called magnetic memory. With this new technique, they've figured out ... continue

Jobs: Apple doesn’t track anyone

Steve Jobs downplayed the level of data kept by Apple on users following a Gizmodo report last week that an extensive level of information is being compiled and stored from users' iPhones. Gizmodo's Sam Biddle detailed how his ... continue

That iPhone you love so much – it’s tracking everywhere you’ve been – all the time

A very scary report has just shown up on Gizmodo written by Sam Biddle where he maps everywhere he has been over the last year. So what is so scary about that? Well all the data used to create ... continue

So, how much does stolen or lost laptops cost business? Try $2.1 Billion

As the most recent Wikileaks data dump has everyone talking there is one thing that has business worried: lost or stolen laptops that can lead to things like the Wikileaks data sharing of what is presumed to ... continue

Facebook: Popular apps are leaking, selling user information

Occasionally, people in my Facebook feed will post and repost a status update about not how not to have information you'd not like public leaked on Facebook. "Get a piece of paper and write down all the things ... continue

Seeing your Foursquare check-ins as an elevation map

By now most people will have seen the images of incidents of crime in San Francisco as elevation maps so it was only a matter of time before folks decided to play with other kinds of data ... continue

More data than talk and the scam continues

There's a report making the rounds on the web that started with a New York Times post about how cellphones are being used more for data than they are for actual voice phone calls. According to the CITA, ... continue

Government data, our data, now held by Google

I ran across this little tidbit of news over the Christmas holidays and it amazes me that more people aren't asking if what is being reported is something we really want to see happening. You see Google has ... continue

deCode Genetics closes doors, questions about data raised

It's one thing when some silly Web 2.0 social service gets sold, or shuts its doors, and our data either goes poof or gets bought up by whoever buys the service but what happens when that service ... continue

Anonymous data not so anonymous after all

Like Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs, we all leave a trail of personal information as we navigate the internet. Your friend sent you a birthday drink! A post about taxes in your hamlet, another about your toddler's ... continue

Advertisers: Don’t mind us as we follow you everywhere

Online advertising is big bucks and those bucks get even bigger with the more information that advertisers know about you and your habits – both on-line and off-line. From things like income and credit ... continue

Amazon’s new Pony Express service

Okay so it’s not quite a pony express service in the truest sense of the word but in a day and age when cloud computing and fast broadband are the hot buzzwords Amazon’s new ... continue

Your data safe from prying company eyes? Think again

While the reports of data breaches are probably only a fraction of the real number of times your personal data has been stolen from companies the fact that it happens is almost an accepted ... continue