Privacy

1 - Hurricane Michael is ’100 year’ storm, Gov. Rick Scott warns Hurricane Michael, which intensified into a Category 4 storm overnight, is expected to make landfall at that strength near Panama City later Wednesday. Forecasters said the…

I have a lot of links on the Trump investigation. The key factor: while the Cohen warrant is Stormy Daniels related, it opens the whole Trump Organization to discovery.

Could public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash that slows the growth of the companies…

In 2012, to protect user privacy, the FTC mandated regulatory controls at Facebook that it has not made. Therefore, Facebook faces potential fines and greater regulatory oversight. This will be expensive, and could potentially cause…

Some of the best performing stocks in the US are the large Internet-centric technology stocks like Facebook. But Facebook's data breach represents a threat to them from regulators

Credit Writedowns has now reached the magic threshold of 10,000 posts! That's about 1,000 posts a year, or a little under 3 posts a day for 10 years. I need your support to keep it going though.

In the wake of the NSA spying scandal, I have been moving my data away from large US vendors and increasing my computer security. Both of these issues needed to be addressed but the NSA spying scandal has made them relevant for me - and I…

Financial news links for 12 December 2011 including stories on privacy, the European sovereign debt crisis, China and India

News links for 3 December 2011

Here's David Letterman with the ten reasons Apple needs to track your every move.