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Two Google security and privacy wins!

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I'm not alone in criticizing Google's user data privacy structure (see this article and this search). But when they (or anyone else) does something right, they deserve praise. Google announced today that it has applied an algorythm similar to credit card purchase pattern analysis (though albeit extremely less sophosticated) to your Google account access. You may ...

Disabling Google Buzz: another failure of foresight

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Google recently implemented a preferences tab in GMail which allows users not only to hide Buzz, but to opt-out from it completely. Hurray! My excitement was short-lived, though. Once the user clicks on the "Disable Google Buzz" link, they are met with this warning message: I noticed that Google Reader is listed second, perhaps in response ...

Google Wave

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If you haven't seen this yet, welcome back from the Moon! When I saw this demo, I hit DND on my phone and watched this demo very carefully. Google Wave seems to offer a lot of potential benefit for my industry. I've submitted a request to access the Google Wave Sandbox so I can start developing ...