A peek into Behavioral Advertising...

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6623

Facebook's New Privacy Tools As User Notice

Facebook previewed a new notice strategy today. Part of the proposed change is a simpler privacy policy. Meh. I, like many, am a privacy policy skeptic. I'm skeptical of layered notice, too. I'm even skeptical of privacy policy icons, tables, and nutrition-style labels. They all run into the same problem: written text cannot simultaneously be readable and exhaustive, thorough and yet concise.

As an alternative, I argue for a concept I've been calling "visceral" privacy notice. Rather than tell people at length what your privacy practices may be, you show them what they really are. Facebook took a step in this direction today, joining Google and Yahoo! in what I hope to be an emerging best practice.

… Today Facebook joined Google and Yahoo! in offering a form of visceral notice to users. Specifically, Facebook has assembled interactive tools that permit users to see how their profile looks to the public, what apps they use, etc. Most exciting of all, Facebook offers a unique new tool that lets users see exactly how ads are targeted by going through the motions of creating an ad themselves.

Did India just Opt-Out of Cloud Computing or did they make themselves a safe place to be in the Cloud?

http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/02/articles/international/india-issues-draft-privacy-rules/

India Issues Draft Privacy Rules

The Government of India’s Ministry of Communications & Information Technology has published three draft rules that would implement the Information Technology Act, 2000. These include: Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information; Due Diligence Observed by Intermediaries Guidelines and Guidelines for Cyber Cafe. The first two of these rules could affect international companies that provide digital services or process data in India. The comment period on the rules ends February 28, 2011.

The Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information rules could impact all information processing and business processes outsourced to India. The draft rule covers user information that is processed in India no matter where that information was originally collected.

… The Due Diligence Observed by Intermediaries Guidelines require that an intermediary notify all users of computer resources of unethical and unsafe online activity that must be avoided, and police users that engage in such activity on sites the intermediary hosts. The Guidelines also require that intermediaries themselves refrain from such activity and provide information to government agencies related to prohibited behavior.

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Are we ready for Windows 8? New term: NUI – Natural User Interaction

http://www.ispyce.com/2011/02/microsoft-shows-off-radical-new-ui.html

Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could be Used in Windows 8

In a three and a half minute video, Microsoft may have shown the world what it has in store for the eagerly awaited Windows 8. In the video Microsoft showed a radically different interface from past versions of Windows -- even Windows 7. Running on Surface 2, the touch-screen successor to the original Microsoft Surface, the device accepts input from a Windows Phone 7 handset (HTC HD7).

Gone are the icons that drive Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems of past and present. In their place are "bubbles" that interacted with files and post streaming information off the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AaWFivMjJG0#at=147