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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Privacy study shows Google
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Using trackers called “web bugs,” thirf parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’yt share user data with others. “Webv bugs from Google and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitesx and 88 percent of theapproximatelyy 400,000 unique domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for bloggingy — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itselfr was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnickm and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’s information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzesd privacy policies posted on web sites and founf loopholes used by many site operators to allo w third parties to still collect data on who views Theyalso found, for example, that althougyh web sites may reassure visitors that “we don’f share data with third those third parties don’t include a company’es affiliates — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for has 137 subsidiary “The law on affiliate sharing generallty is more permissive” than that on sharinv user data with third party the report said.
Companies controlling the top 50 busiestr web sites had an averagwe of 297affiliates each, meaning they could sharew user data with a lot of other Popular site , for example, is owned by New York’sw (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,500 subsidiaries. BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300p subsidiaries. “Users do not know and cannot learn the full range of affiliates with whichn websites mayshare information,” the report said.
Thougnh many Internet users are familiardwith “cookies” used to studg their surfing habits, they are less familiar with so-called “wev bugs,” which can’t be cleared out of a web browser, sincd they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlh by third parties, theirr use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’ s owner, though users concerned about privacy may be unimpresse d by this technicality. “We believe that this practice contravenes expectations; it makes little sense to disclaim formallinformation sharing, but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third parties,” the report said.
Who'as in charge of privacy? Although surveys of Interney users show peopleare “very concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share their personal informatiob without permission,” sifting through privacy policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typica l person to read the privacy policies of all the web sitews they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowingg with whom their data will be On the policy the reportfinds “no one knows who is in chargse of protecting privacy” in the United People can complain to the Federal Trade Commissioj and other agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behavioral trackinv make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaintsz to various agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report The FTC looks at online privacy more in termes of “harms” done to consumers, the reporg said, rather than also in terms of control over personak information, which is what most user care about.
The report makes severa suggestionsfor improvement, including more aggressive action by the FTC to protect online privacy. It also callw for clearer privacy policies on web written so that average users canunderstand ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privac policy, for example, when analyzed for was written at an equivalent grade level of 17.29. The average privacy policy in the studh was written at a grade levelof 13.83. The full stud y can be found .
Using trackers called “web bugs,” thirf parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’yt share user data with others. “Webv bugs from Google and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitesx and 88 percent of theapproximatelyy 400,000 unique domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for bloggingy — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itselfr was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnickm and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’s information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzesd privacy policies posted on web sites and founf loopholes used by many site operators to allo w third parties to still collect data on who views Theyalso found, for example, that althougyh web sites may reassure visitors that “we don’f share data with third those third parties don’t include a company’es affiliates — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for has 137 subsidiary “The law on affiliate sharing generallty is more permissive” than that on sharinv user data with third party the report said.
Companies controlling the top 50 busiestr web sites had an averagwe of 297affiliates each, meaning they could sharew user data with a lot of other Popular site , for example, is owned by New York’sw (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,500 subsidiaries. BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300p subsidiaries. “Users do not know and cannot learn the full range of affiliates with whichn websites mayshare information,” the report said.
Thougnh many Internet users are familiardwith “cookies” used to studg their surfing habits, they are less familiar with so-called “wev bugs,” which can’t be cleared out of a web browser, sincd they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlh by third parties, theirr use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’ s owner, though users concerned about privacy may be unimpresse d by this technicality. “We believe that this practice contravenes expectations; it makes little sense to disclaim formallinformation sharing, but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third parties,” the report said.
Who'as in charge of privacy? Although surveys of Interney users show peopleare “very concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share their personal informatiob without permission,” sifting through privacy policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typica l person to read the privacy policies of all the web sitews they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowingg with whom their data will be On the policy the reportfinds “no one knows who is in chargse of protecting privacy” in the United People can complain to the Federal Trade Commissioj and other agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behavioral trackinv make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaintsz to various agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report The FTC looks at online privacy more in termes of “harms” done to consumers, the reporg said, rather than also in terms of control over personak information, which is what most user care about.
The report makes severa suggestionsfor improvement, including more aggressive action by the FTC to protect online privacy. It also callw for clearer privacy policies on web written so that average users canunderstand ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privac policy, for example, when analyzed for was written at an equivalent grade level of 17.29. The average privacy policy in the studh was written at a grade levelof 13.83. The full stud y can be found .
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Canning History: When Propaganda Encouraged Patriotic Preserves - NPR (blog)
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Canning History: When Propaganda Encouraged Patriotic Preserves NPR (blog) Hide caption. During World War II, the government used posters to encourage Americans to grow and preserve their own foods as a way to aid the war effort. Produced by the Office of War Information in 1943. Previous Next. Northwestern University ... |
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Philadelphia Business Journal: Penn vet students bemoan budget cuts
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Penn Veterinary Medicine, one of 28 veterinary schoolxs in the United States and the only veterinargy schoolin Pennsylvania, gets abouy 35 percent of its funding from the state. Gov. Ed Rendell
Penn Veterinary Medicine, one of 28 veterinary schoolxs in the United States and the only veterinargy schoolin Pennsylvania, gets abouy 35 percent of its funding from the state. Gov. Ed Rendell
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Prominent analyst drops Colonial from roster - Birmingham Business Journal:
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The Montgomery-based company’s (NYSE:CNB) share prices have fallen off a clif during thenationwide recession, which causedx its market cap – the total dollar value of the company’sz outstanding shares – to Its stock is now considered “pennyy stock” since it’s trading well under $5. It was tradin at 63 cents Wednesday afternoon. “Given our operating we consider it unlikely that CNB will recapturw the decline in market capitalizatiob that has been experienced over the last12 months,” Patteb said in a note to his clients.
The which has struggled with a backlog of nonperforming loansw in the slumpingFlorida market, has fallemn below Morgan Keegan’s $2.7 billion markeft cap threshold, Patten said. Colonial’s shares will likely tradee on speculation because its current dealwith Florida-basedx mortgage company is up in the air. The deal is also hinger on whether the bank can receiv bailout funds fromthe government, Patten said. “We remai n negatively biased onCNB shares, as the ultimate outcome from the potential deal with Tayloe Bean and Whitaker remainsa highly uncertain.
While closing this transaction wouldf be an important first step for the bank to stayindependentr (though this comes at the cost of massive dilutio for existing shareholders), there are further challenges that managementy faces, such as approval for capital under the TARP program and workinf through credit issues,” he said in the In March, Colonial signed a deal to receive $300 milliomn in capital in exchange for a hefty portiojn of outstanding shares, which will equal a 75 percent controllingb interest in the bank once the deal is
The Montgomery-based company’s (NYSE:CNB) share prices have fallen off a clif during thenationwide recession, which causedx its market cap – the total dollar value of the company’sz outstanding shares – to Its stock is now considered “pennyy stock” since it’s trading well under $5. It was tradin at 63 cents Wednesday afternoon. “Given our operating we consider it unlikely that CNB will recapturw the decline in market capitalizatiob that has been experienced over the last12 months,” Patteb said in a note to his clients.
The which has struggled with a backlog of nonperforming loansw in the slumpingFlorida market, has fallemn below Morgan Keegan’s $2.7 billion markeft cap threshold, Patten said. Colonial’s shares will likely tradee on speculation because its current dealwith Florida-basedx mortgage company is up in the air. The deal is also hinger on whether the bank can receiv bailout funds fromthe government, Patten said. “We remai n negatively biased onCNB shares, as the ultimate outcome from the potential deal with Tayloe Bean and Whitaker remainsa highly uncertain.
While closing this transaction wouldf be an important first step for the bank to stayindependentr (though this comes at the cost of massive dilutio for existing shareholders), there are further challenges that managementy faces, such as approval for capital under the TARP program and workinf through credit issues,” he said in the In March, Colonial signed a deal to receive $300 milliomn in capital in exchange for a hefty portiojn of outstanding shares, which will equal a 75 percent controllingb interest in the bank once the deal is
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Hatem pulls out of Raleigh downtown project - Dallas Business Journal:
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Hatem told the Raleigh City Council Tuesdayg thathis firm, , is unable to secure financing for the projecyt at this time, givebn the economic conditions. City council members immediately voted to sever tieswith “We should have done this (pull the plug) last year,” Hatem says. “If was disappointing before, but now I am Empire signed a deal with the city in 2007 after the city decided to sell the landfor $1.
4r4 million (about $70-a-foot) along Salisbury Street, and the development companty agreed to specific benchmarkl deadlines to finish the The developer missed a deadline in 2008, at whichg time Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen recommended that the city cut its ties with Empiree without any extension. Under terms of the Hatem never actually bought the The city now willconsider re-issuinh a request for proposals for the “Asking the developer to agre to a schedule that was detached from the realities of the economt was at best flawed,” Hatenm told the city council. “ But the nail in the coffinn was eliminating the possibilit of anyfuture extension.
Even in a good economi c climate, it is virtually impossiblew to secure thefunding necessary, knowing that the agreemenf would be canceled at a time certain without “ The two-phase $50 million project, called , was meant to be a big piecew of downtown Raleigh’s revitalization efforts, with the hotep an important piece in helping the new $220 milliob book events. Hatem has renovated several buildinga in downtown Raleigh in recent yearas and also owns severaol restaurants in the area including theDuck Dumpling, , The Pit and soon-to-opened Gravy.
Hatem told the councip that Empire has created more than 200 jobs in downtowm Raleigh and has invested morethan $80 millionh in the local economy. In all, Empire companies pay $2 millionj annually in sales, property, franchise and other miscellaneous taxes, Hatem told the council. As I walk, people form across the world and acrosz town through the streets of downtown Raleigh these pastfew months, one thin g was clear: This ambitious projecty is not possible at this time,” Hatejm told the council.
Hatem estimates he invested $500,000 to do the preliminary work onthe
Hatem told the Raleigh City Council Tuesdayg thathis firm, , is unable to secure financing for the projecyt at this time, givebn the economic conditions. City council members immediately voted to sever tieswith “We should have done this (pull the plug) last year,” Hatem says. “If was disappointing before, but now I am Empire signed a deal with the city in 2007 after the city decided to sell the landfor $1.
4r4 million (about $70-a-foot) along Salisbury Street, and the development companty agreed to specific benchmarkl deadlines to finish the The developer missed a deadline in 2008, at whichg time Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen recommended that the city cut its ties with Empiree without any extension. Under terms of the Hatem never actually bought the The city now willconsider re-issuinh a request for proposals for the “Asking the developer to agre to a schedule that was detached from the realities of the economt was at best flawed,” Hatenm told the city council. “ But the nail in the coffinn was eliminating the possibilit of anyfuture extension.
Even in a good economi c climate, it is virtually impossiblew to secure thefunding necessary, knowing that the agreemenf would be canceled at a time certain without “ The two-phase $50 million project, called , was meant to be a big piecew of downtown Raleigh’s revitalization efforts, with the hotep an important piece in helping the new $220 milliob book events. Hatem has renovated several buildinga in downtown Raleigh in recent yearas and also owns severaol restaurants in the area including theDuck Dumpling, , The Pit and soon-to-opened Gravy.
Hatem told the councip that Empire has created more than 200 jobs in downtowm Raleigh and has invested morethan $80 millionh in the local economy. In all, Empire companies pay $2 millionj annually in sales, property, franchise and other miscellaneous taxes, Hatem told the council. As I walk, people form across the world and acrosz town through the streets of downtown Raleigh these pastfew months, one thin g was clear: This ambitious projecty is not possible at this time,” Hatejm told the council.
Hatem estimates he invested $500,000 to do the preliminary work onthe
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