The word “Children” today has multiple synonyms. Pepsi calls them “GeneratioNext” and “The New Generation”, Burger King calls them “The Subservient Chicken Eaters”. Gerber christens your kids as “Gerber Babies”, Barbie calls your daughter “everything girl”. The group formerly known as “children” today is a large, thriving “Consumer Market” to advertisers. Parents teach children to [...]
T-Mobile Sidekick owner files a Class Action Lawsuit against T-Mobile and Microsoft for loss of data from her phone. Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, till recently, was the proud owner of T-Mobile Sidekick. She had bought this phone after being convinced by the grand claims made by T-Mobile about the security and protection of their user’s [...]
FTC FTW Last October, the Federal Trade Commission introduced a new of set of rules that would require bloggers, tweeters, etc… to disclose any free products they received or financial interests in products they review. As Wired Magazine put it, the FTC is trying to, “prevent the net from being flooded with paid-for reviews [...]
Tagged Bloggers, Free Speech, FTC, RegulationThe argument that “A full ten years into cloud computing, customers understand that cloud systems typically outshine their own in terms of reliability and security. In the final analysis, security and privacy of data are more robust in environments in which there is prioritization, expertise, and resources fuelled by economies of scale, conditions that do [...]
Digital Rights Management is “a systematic approach to copyright protection for digital media. The purpose of employing DRM is to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital media and to restrict consumers from copying content they’ve purchased (SearchCIO).” DRM is used to stop the exchange of digital media content illegally. The exchange of digital media files via [...]
In their paper “The Big Idea: Prizes to Stimulate R&D for New Medicines,” Love & Hubbard discuss the current system of financing R&D for new medicines. They say that this system: “is deeply flawed by the impact of high prices on access to medicine, the wasteful spending on marketing and R&D for medically unimportant products, [...]
On Thursday the 25th we are hosting a video webcast with Lawrence Lessigof Harvard Law School on the issues of fair use & copyright in online video. This will be a three part event starting with a streamed video talk by Lessig then an open Q&A online w/Lessig and closing with an in person 45 minute discussionof fair [...]
One of the issues we’ve been discussing at length in class is the protection of personal privacy. The advent of social networking sites, combined with increasingly creative and sometimes manipulative marketing techniques, has lured users into divulging larger amounts of personally identifiable information online. As we delve deeper into the Information Age, the notion of [...]
It seems like most ethical and legal questions these days revolve around technology. There is one story that has surfaced recently that adds to that debate. Last year Lower Merion School District provided each of their High School students an Apple Laptop. As many of you know, most, if not all Apple Laptops, have [...]
A couple of weeks ago a craze swept Facebook; users participated in what was known as Doppelganger week. If you are lucky enough to look like a celebrity then you probably changed your profile picture to your celebrity counterpart. However, very few people knew that changing their profile picture could be a violation of Facebook’s [...]
