Privacy & Intellectual Property
Communications Privacy Also Stops Crime
The launch of the Calyx Institute, driven by American privacy campaigner Nicholas Merrill, has prompted a lot of conversation amongst the talkRA authors. ...
Facebooks and Sales Ledgers
So, if I understand it correctly, the way to become the world's youngest billionaire is to sit up late at night, in your college...
Too Much Privacy is also a Risk
In his post entitled 'An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP', Eric Priezkalns reviewed the potential for Nicholas Merrill and the Calyx...
Putting a Value on User Data
The Atlantic has a brief but excellent analysis of the economic value of an internet user's data; see here. This is important -...
An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP
Privacy. I like mine. You may have lost yours already. Once lost, privacy is not something you can easily recover. ...
FICO Patents ‘Revenue Assurance Analytics’
Every month sees new battles waged over who owns the intellectual property rights to new technologies. Now it seems like the the battleground...
Connectiva Allegedly Sells Parser Code
Official news about Connectiva continues to be notable by its absence, but the information leaked by an unofficial employee blog paints a grim picture...
FTC Privacy Report Pushes Do-Not-Track
The United States' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has completed its final commission report on protecting consumer privacy; you can download it from here.One key...
WeDo Patents Data Gathering Technology
WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, has secured a UK and European patent for a new data collecting technology; see their press release here.The...
O2 Data Breach: customers are best testers
UK mobile operator O2 found themselves in trouble last week, when it was discovered they automatically sent the user's telephone number to any website...
RA vs Privacy: Malawi Row Continues
As previously reported on talkRA Malawi's regulator is imposing a 'revenue assurance' system on its operators, even though the operators insist it infringes customer...
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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