Mark Hurd News. Social netowrks. Startups. Finance. Google. Big Data. Ten Technology Trends That Will Change the World in Ten Years. Board Members: Rocket Fuel or Rocks? - Lucy P. Marcus. By Lucy P.
Marcus | 2:15 PM July 12, 2011 A good board can be rocket fuel or it can be rocks in an organization’s pockets. Much of success and failure in the boardroom comes down to the way the individuals around the table — be it on a public company board, a small private board, or a non-profit board — do their jobs. So what should an independent director do to contribute to making the boardroom a dynamic, productive place?
Here are five things to start with: 1. Get to know the people around the table. Be engaged & constructive. 2. By being approachable and reaching out to people, board members are able to talk with, and to listen to, the organization’s senior managers, staff, and investors. 3. 4.
Brazil and Tech. Fair Trade Electronics. Privacy. Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new "Telex" scheme. The Internet has become so economically important that few countries can afford to cut off access altogether.
Instead, repressive regimes allow 'Net access, but try to block individual websites they don't want their populations to see. Some users, aided by allies in the West, use circumvention technologies like Web proxies or TOR to access forbidden information. This has led to a long-running cat-and-mouse game in which censorship opponents establish new proxies while censors race to identify and block them. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed technology that they hope can decisively tilt the playing field toward free speech. Their system, called Telex, is an "end-to-middle" proxy scheme. The trick is that the tags need to be encoded in a way that the Telex system can detect but that the censor cannot. The system accomplishes this using a clever tweak to the TLS handshake that occurs whenever a browser initiates an encrypted Web connection.
Who will deploy it? Study Compares Third-Party Trackers’ Privacy Policies to Business Practices. When it comes to online tracking, does “no” really mean “no”?
Not really, according to a Stanford researcher studying third-party tracking. For the past few months, researchers at the Stanford Security Lab have been working on software to monitor the placement of cookies, beacons, and other online tracking mechanisms. The surprising result? Nearly half of the companies participating in the self-regulatory Network Advertising Initiative do not remove tracking cookies after users opt out of online behavioral ad targeting, according to Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student and research fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
At least eight of the companies explicitly say they’ll stop tracking after users opt out but continue to leave tracking cookies in place, said Mayer. While the NAI members promise only to stop targeting advertising—not stop collecting data—when users opt out, Mayer said the research shows that self-regulation isn’t satisfactory. Education. Memristor.