by admin on August 11, 2010
Google knows what you watch, what you search, and even with whom you’re friends. The availability of all this information raises an important question: Where does Google CEO Eric Schmidt stand on the issue of online privacy?
Schmidt has previously said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
In a more recent interview with CNBC conducted at the Techonomy conference earlier this month, Schmidt offered an additional look at his views on online privacy and anonymity.
Speaking on a panel at the event, Schmidt argued that anonymity on the Internet is dangerous. “In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you,” he said.
Schmidt took the stance that governments may eventually put an end to anonymity. “We need a [verified] name service for people,” he said. “Governments will demand it.”
He expanded on his thoughts in a separate interview.
“Privacy is incredibly important,” he said, adding, “Privacy is not the same thing as anonymity. It’s very important that Google and everyone else respects people’s privacy. People have a right to privacy; it’s natural; it’s normal. It’s the right way to do things.”
However, there should be limits, he said: “[I]f you are trying to commit a terrible, evil crime, it’s not obvious that you should be able to do so with complete anonymity. There are no systems in our society which allow you to do that. Judges insist on unmasking who the perpetrator was. So absolute anonymity could lead to some very difficult decisions for our governments and our society as a whole and I don’t think we want that either.”
He additionally noted, “People aren’t ready for the technology revolution that’s going to happen to them.”
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google has been struggling and “soul searching” to answer the question: “How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels–the vast trove of data it possesses about people’s activities?” A leaked vision statement reveals the company is grappling with what it should do with the data it has about its users.
What do you think of Schmidt’s comments? Are they worrisome? Reassuring? Do you agree or disagree and why? Tell us in the comments below.
(via NetworkWorld)
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by admin on August 11, 2010
“Project Runway” judge and mom-to-be Nina Garcia talked to The Cut on the release day of her fourth book Nina Garcia’s Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion. Billed as providing the answer to “What should I wear?” in any situation, in the pages, Garcia “shows us the pieces, the accessories, and the strategies to create the looks that will take us from the first day on a job through the day we ask for a raise and beyond, from the first time we meet our boyfriend’s parents (or his children) through the day we see our own children walk down the aisle,” according to Amazon.
So, uh, where to start? Garcia told The Cut about the first designer item she ever bought:
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn’t actually buy it, but I fell in love with it. When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I’m not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.
These days, Garcia is really into minimalism, but she would like to say bye-bye to some trends. “I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.”
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by admin on August 3, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called off their second engagement after he told her he may have fathered a baby with another woman.
Palin declined to identify the woman to People magazine, but a pregnant ex-girlfriend of Johnston has publicly denied he is the father.
Palin, the 19-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Johnston told her about the baby on July 14, the day the couple announced their re-engagement. Bristol Palin and the 20-year-old Johnston have a toddler son together, Tripp.
Representatives for Palin and Johnston did not immediately return requests for comment Tuesday.
Palin had said she didn’t have her mother’s full support over reconnecting with Johnston. She said both her mother and father worried she would get hurt again.
Palin said the “final straw” was when Johnston told her he was going to Hollywood to see a hunting show, but actually went there to star in a music video mocking her family. In the video being shot this month in Los Angeles, Johnston will play a lover whose romance is thwarted by his girlfriend’s disapproving mother. The project is based on the song “After Love” by singer-songwriter Brittani Senser.
“He’s just obsessed with the limelight, and I got played,” Palin told People.
Relations between the Palins and Johnston and his family have been strained since the couple broke off their first engagement soon after Tripp was born in December 2008. Bristol Palin later became a public advocate for abstinence.
The relationship later devolved into a messy tabloid drama as Johnston posed nude for Playgirl and trashed Sarah Palin in interviews. The sudden re-engagement marked a rapid turnaround for the couple that just months ago was fighting over child support and Johnston’s criticism of her family.
Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, told People that she hopes her daughter will “move forward in life with her same forgiving, gracious, optimistic spirit, but from henceforth she’ll know to trust but verify.”
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by admin on July 27, 2010
Style.com caught up with Calvin Klein in the Hamptons over the weekend at the 17th annual Watermill Summer Benefit, where it was really, truly hot outside, but Mr. Klein was wearing dark slacks and a white button-down shirt. He would never wear shorts to such an event. In fact, he thumbs his nose at shorts-wearers. Here’s what he had to say:
“I mean, there was a time when people really dressed up for this event. Now, maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s the humidity, but it’s much more casual. You would never have seen men walking around in shorts here. I think it’s inappropriate, actually. We’re all sweating. That’s what happens; you have to sweat sometimes.”
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by admin on July 19, 2010
Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive director sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, disputed the claims and said he relied on his firm’s legal and compliance department.
Tourre, in a filing yesterday in federal court in Manhattan, denied making any materially misleading statements or omissions related to the 2007 sale of the Abacus 2007-AC1 collateralized debt obligation linked to subprime mortgages.
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