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Senator calls for smartphone app privacy policies

(AP) -- A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is challenging Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to require all developers that make apps for their mobile devices to adopt formal privacy policies.

Technology / Software

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Conflict of Interest Disclosures in Clinical Trials Need to be Clearer

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's standard practice at leading academic medical centers: When enrolling patients in a clinical trial, researchers should disclose relevant financial relationships that might affect a patient's decision ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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FCC: TV stations must post rates for campaign ads

(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to post online the advertising rates they charge political candidates and advocacy groups.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'

With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook new college frontier for credit card marketers

Despite the two-year-old federal legislation to protect young consumers, college-age adults remain easy prey for credit card companies, which have moved off campus and on to Facebook.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nudging government to greater accountability

There is an increasing need for stronger accountability of government and thus greater demands on transparency of the diplomatic and national security apparatus. However, despite the advent of WikiLeaks, which purports to ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google's moves raise questions about 'don't be evil' motto

With its "Don't Be Evil" motto, Google Inc. has always held itself to a higher moral standard.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 24

Reproductive problems, death in animals exposed to fracking

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report has found dozens of cases of illness, death and reproductive issues in cows, horses, goats, llamas, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and other wildlife, and humans. It says these conditions could be ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Social-network use leads companies to boost security

When Randy Kortering decided to upgrade computer network defenses at Haworth, a $1 billion-a-year office fixtures manufacturer, his chief of security warned him about social-networking use.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Building consumer trust critical to online marketing success, researchers find

(PhysOrg.com) -- With identity fraud and the increasingly open Internet growing, consumers seem less likely to give out personal information online. For e-commerce and online marketers, this is a roadblock to the customer ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures

(AP) -- Mobile applications seeking to collect personal information will have to forewarn users as part of an agreement reached in California.

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created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter stores user iPhone address books for 18 months after scan

Twitter Inc. said that to help users find friends also using the service, it retrieves entire address book from users' smartphones, including names, email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for ...

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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