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  Opinion: You are the product for The Google

  "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." -- a user named "blue_beetle" on MetaFilter

  By Mark Gibbs | 03 March, 2012 02:28

  Tags: european union, flu, gmail, Google, google docs, industry verticals, influenza, internet, Larry Page, marketing, policy, predictive analytics, privacy, Q codes, search, search engines, security, Sergey Brin, software, statistics, Target, The Borg, youtube

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  Open-source bias cheered, booed in planned EC rules review

  Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open-source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.

  By Paul Meller | 07 July, 2009 04:52

  Tags: europe, european commission, open source, policy

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  Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?

  IT security administrators have had a fairly easy case to make against such social networking sites as Myspace in the past. Myspace in particular tends to be a place for the mostly personal, and some profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and malware pushers.

  By Bill Brenner | 16 April, 2009 10:28

  Tags: policy, security, social networking

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  CDT: Privacy, transparency needed in cybersecurity policy

  U.S. President Barack Obama's administration and Congress will have to address major civil liberties and transparency concerns as they create new policies to tackle ongoing cybersecurity vulnerabilties in the government and private industry, a digital rights group said.

  By Grant Gross | 16 April, 2009 05:19

  Tags: Barack Obama, cdt, cybersecurity, policy, privacy, security

Whitepapers about policy

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  Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud

  In cloud environments, one of the most pervasive and fundamental challenges for organizations in demonstrating policy compliance is proving that the physical and virtual infrastructure of the cloud can be trusted – particularly when those infrastructure components are owned and managed by external service providers. Read on.