Friday, October 30, 2015

Safe Harbour may not be so Safe Harbour


The EU's top court rules that a data transfer pact with the US did not do enough to protect people's privacy, causing problems for Facebook.
Hmm, Safe Harbour may not be so Safe Harbour, after all, for Facebook and the like.
 

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Twitter to break its microblogging speciality?


Interim CEO | maybe permanent CEO Jack Dorsey
Changes are afoot at Twitter, hence for its users.  What exactly are we talking about?  Talk is, Twitter will allow for longer that 140-character tweets.  But that's not at all certain yet, despite the declarative article title Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit.  The crux of the matter is that Dorsey needs, desperately so apparently, to attract more users.  But the tough question is, What maneuver(s) exactly will realize this end?